Ultimate Boot CD 5.0 Beta 12

Ultimate Boot CD 5.0 Beta 12 provides you with an advanced and powerful Booting CD pack.

You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to Run floppy-based diagnostic utilities from CDROM drives, Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive, or Consolidate as many diagnostic programs as possible into one bootable CD.

You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Wouldnt 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!
4. 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.
   

Full Version: 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.

Major Features:

1. Add the INSERT environment
2. Able to mount most filesystems (including NTFS(rw) via Captive)
   
3. A Linux distribution based on Knoppix.

Enhancements:

1. Updated CDShell to V216
2. Updated BCDW to V20a1
3. The FreeDOS-based boot disks have been updated to V325 Please read the NwDsk history page for more information In addition, FreeDOS for UBCD now comes with optional universal SCSI support as well as parameterized booting (memdisk and bcdw only) Thanks to Erwin Veermans for the contribution
4. INSERT has been updated to include 5 different bootup modes Thanks to Charles Appel for the contribution
5. Updated Drive Fitness Test to V402
6. Updated g4u to V20
7. Updated MemTest86+ to V155 Thanks to Travis McMurry for the update
8. Updated IBM Feature Tool to V197 Thanks to SebastienG for the update
9. Updated MaxBlast to V40 Thanks to SebastienG for the update
10. Updated PCI to V11 Thanks to SebastienG for the update
11. Updated Offline NT Password & Registry Editor to 050303 Thanks to Uriel Sigala for the update
12. Updated ASTRA to V500 Thanks to SebastienG for the update
13. Updated UniFlash to V140 Thanks to SebastienG for the update
14. Updated TestDisk to V57 Thanks to Christophe Grenier for the update
15. Updated PowerMax to V421 Thanks to SebastienG for the update
16. Updated Arachne to V183 Thanks to Erwin Veermans for the updated image
17. Updated MHDD to V42 Thanks to SebastienG for the update
18. Updated F-Prot to V316B Thanks to SebastienG, Larry Smith and Stefano for the update
19. Updated Partition Saving to V300 Thanks to SebastienG for the update
20. Updated DBAN to V105 Thanks to SebastienG for the update
21. Updated CMOSPWD to V46 Thanks to SebastienG for the update
22. Added AVG Free Edition V70 Thanks to Alan Loughlin for the suggestion
23. Added CHZ Monitor-Test V10 Thanks to nynyny for the suggestion
24. Added Necromancers DOS Navigator V215
25. Added GRUB V095 Thanks to Michael Schierl for the suggestion
26. Added SCSIMax V21 Thanks to halcyon22 for the suggestion
27. Added Eraser for DOS V56 Thanks to vaceituno for the suggestion
28. Added FileLink V301 (from Caldera OpenDOS V703) Thanks to vaceituno for the suggestion
29. Added QwikTest Thanks to Eric Auer who indirectly pointed me to the web page containing this program
30. Added D-Browse V123 Thanks to Eric Auer for suggesting this
31. Removed Ontrack Data Advisor Free Edition because it has expired and will no longer run Thanks to Russ for informing me
32. Removed Disk Image Writer until it can support IGZ format
33. AutoClave has been discontinued and will no longer be updated by its author Thanks to SebastienG for the update
34. The floppy version of RIP has been discontinued Thanks to SebastienG for the update
35. Fixed HUTIL to run from RAM disk instead of CDROM because disk diagnostic function writes a log file to disk Thanks to Mark Holtz for reporting the problem
36. Fixed version number of Smart BootManager to read V371 instead of V37R1
37. Timeout checking is now performed only in the main menu, not submenus
38. Main menu now count down the number of minutes to booting first harddisk Thanks to Erwin Veermans for the idea
39. Reintroduced PowerMax V409, as recommended by Scott Cooper: "Keep Maxtors 409 test as well as the latest (421) as Maxtor intentionally crippled the newer versions to not run on non-Maxtor drives I have been using Maxtors 409 to double-check other tests/drives Ive found it more useful than DFT, which also (as of 3x) runs on other brands"
40. Modified UBCD to use [F8] and [F9] to boot from HDD so that it is similar to the Windows boot option menu Thanks to Scott Cooper for the suggestion
41. Run a separate timeoutscn when main menu times out to allow for easier customization

Requirements: No special requirements