Overview

For those of you interested in a Windows version of the Ultimate Boot CD, you might want to check out this project initiated by Ben Burrows.

You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:

Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.

Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive. Even if you do have a floppy drive, it is still much much faster to run your diagnostic tools from the CDROM drive, rather than wait for the tool to load from the floppy drive.

Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Wouldn't you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate Boot CD is for you!

When you boot up from the CD, a text-based menu will be displayed, and you will be able to select the tool you want to run. The selected tool actually boots off a virtual floppy disk created in memory.

Tools currently included in the Ultimate Boot CD are:

Ultimate Boot CD (Basic)

The basic version contains updated versions of all tools found in previous releases and even adds a few more. This version does not contain the Linux boot environment INSERT.

Name of Tool Version

Hard Disk Installation

MaxBlast 3 (Maxtor) 3.6

DiscWizard 2003 (Seagate) 10.45.06

Disk Manager (Seagate) 9.56a

Disk Manager (Samsung) 10

Hard Disk Diagnosis

Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi) 4.00

PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 4.09

DLG Diagnostic (Western Digital) 4.15

DLG Diagnostic (Western Digital) 5.04c

Data Lifeguard (Western Digital) 11.0

SeaTools Desktop (Seagate) 1.06.02

SeaTools Desktop (Seagate) 3.00.07en

Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu) 6.20

SHDIAG (Samsung) 1.25

HUTIL (Samsung) 1.19

GWSCAN (Gateway) 3.15

GWSCAN (Gateway) 5.09

Salvation HDD Scan and Repair 3.0

MHDD32 4.0

Ontrack Data Advisor Free Edition 5.0

Hard Disk Device Management

Feature Tool (IBM/Hitachi) 1.94

AMSET (Maxtor) 4.00

MAXLLF (Maxtor) 1.1

UATA100 (Seagate) 3.06

Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital) June, 2003

SMARTUDM 2.00

ATA Password Tool 1.1

ATAINF 1.3m

Hard Disk Wiping

AutoClave 0.3

Active@ KillDisk Free Edition 3.1

Darik's Boot and Nuke 1.0.4

PC INSPECTOR e-maxx 0.95 Build 775

Hard Disk Cloning

HDClone (Free Edition) 2.0

g4u 1.17

PC INSPECTOR clone maxx 0.95 Build 769

XXCOPY 2.85.9

Hard Disk Sector Editor

Disk Editor 3.0

DISKMAN4 4.01

PTS DiskEditor 1.04

Partition Tools

Ranish Partition Manager 2.44

XFDISK (Extended FDISK) 0.9.3beta

SPFDISK (Special FDISK) 2000-03q

TestDisk 5.5

Partition Resizer 1.3.4

Partition Saving 2.91

Free FDISK 1.3.0

MBRtool 2.2.100

MBRWork 1.07b

FIPS 2.0

Active@ Partition Recovery 2.1.1

Boot Managers

Smart BootManager 3.7R1

Gujin 0.9

GAG 4.5d

XOSL 1.1.5

File Managers

DOS Navigator 4.9.0

File Maven 3.5a

NTFS Tools

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
Note: The SCSI drivers are available on the CD in scsi/. Selecting "[a] autoprobe for the driver" on startup should do the trick. 041205

Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.1

EditBINI 1.01.1

Boot Partition 2.50

System Burn-In Test

Lucifer 1.0

CPU Test

CPU Burn-in 1.00

Mersenne Prime Test 23.5.2

Memory Test

Memtest86 3.2

Memtest86+ 1.40

Windows Memory Diagnostic n/a

DocMem RAM Diagnostic 1.45a

DocMem RAM Diagnostic 2.1b

TestMem4 4

ctramtest 5.1

Peripherals Test

Parallel port detection and test utilities 1.45

ATAPI CDROM Identification 2.03

CPU Information

Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility 7.2.20041115

System Information

AIDA16 2.14

NSSI 0.58.6

PC-Config 9.33

ASTRA 4.21

PCISniffer 1.3

PCI
pcidevs.txt: 21 Nov 2004 0.49B

CTIA 2.1

Benchmark Applications

System Speed Test 32 4.78

3D Benchmark VGA 1.0

CPU Benchmark n/a

CD Index 1.1

BIOS Utilities

BIOS 1.35.1

UniFlash 1.38

WipeCMOS 1.2

CMOSPWD 4.4

!BIOS 3.20

DOS Boot Disks

FreeDOS Boot Disk 3.22

NwDsk: NetWare Boot Disk 3.22

Madboot Floppy 8.0

MSRRC: Bart's Network Boot Disk on FreeDOS 3.22

Antivirus Tools

F-Prot Antivirus for DOS (Personal use only)
Virus definition: 16 Jan 2005 3.16a

McAfee Antivirus Scanner
Virus definition: 12 Jan 2005 4.32.0

Avast! V7.7 for DOS
Virus definition: 18 Jan 2005 7.7

AntiVir Personal Edition
Virus definition: 18 Jan 2005 6.29.0.5

Network Tools

Freesco 0.3.2

Arachne WWW Browser 1.79

QNX Demo Browser (network and modem version) 4.00

NetCopy 0.2

DOSRDP 2.0/XP

Disk Image Tools

Disk Image Writer
Original work by Adrian Stanciu. Writes disk images on UBCD to physical floppy disks. n/a

Ultimate Boot CD (Full)

The full version contains all the tools found in the basic version but also adds the INSERT environment, a Linux distribution based on Knoppix. INSERT contains many utilities for the Linux user, such as the ability to mount most filesystems (including NTFS(rw) via Captive), ssh and sshfs which allows you to mount a filesystem over ssh, Samba client and server, IDS and testing tools such as Nessus and Snort, Rdesktop to remote control Windows servers, VNC, Qtparted for re-partitioning, iptables, and Monkey webserver are just a few of the tools found on the UBCD version of INSERT. In addition, UBCD Insert also supports modules which can be found at SourceForge that contain several more tools.

Please see UBCD Insert documentation before burning this ISO since it contains information on modules and customization you may find useful.

Customized for UBCD by Charles Appel. Full Linux distribution for system recovery.

Additional tools found at Sourceforge Version

Modules for UBCD Insert

Firebird-0.8 - Now called Firefox 0.8

Nettools-1.0 (contains Snort 2.2.0, Ethereal 0.10.6, Firewall Builder 2.0.1) 1.0

Linux Boot Disks

Tom's Boot Disk 2.0.103

Recovery Is Possible (RIP) 3.1

BasicLinux 3.2

Trinux 0.89