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Custom Search Mirror Sites Mirror Site #1 Enter UBCD Forums Enter UBCD Wiki Table of Content Overview News Download UBCD Download CDR Labels Make a Donation Linking to UBCD Getting a Physical Copy Frequently Asked Questions Forums/Mailing Lists Tutorials Customizing UBCD Version History You Can Help! How it all started Acknowledgements User Feedback Useful Links UBCD Live *BETA* Overview Current release: 5.3.9 Ultimate Boot CD is completely free for the download, or could be obtained for a small fee. If you had somehow paid a ridiculous amount of money for it, you have most likely been fleeced. The least you could do is to make as many copies of the offical UBCD and pass it to your friends, relatives, colleagues or even complete strangers to minimize the per unit cost of your loss! Please note that some of the freeware on UBCD explicitly prohibits redistribution for commercial purposes eg. DIMM_ID. If you intend to resell UBCD for commercial gains, please contact the respective authors for their permissions. If you like trying out new stuff, please check out an early beta version of UBCD Live and give us your feedback . This is a Live Rescue CD based on Debian, which we hope will eventually be good enough to replace Parted Magic. 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! Run Ultimate Boot CD from your USB memory stick. A script on the CD prepares your USB memory stick so that it can be used on newer machines that supports booting from USB devices. You can access the same tools as you would from the CD version. New features in UBCD V5.x include: New! The Linux-based distro Parted Magic is now included with UBCD V5.0. This should be the method of choice when you need to resize/rescue partitions, access NTFS filesystems or work with USB storage devices. New! UBCD V5.x now supports both syslinux/isolinux and grub4dos . This helps improve the chances that UBCD will boot on any particular machine. 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 with the Ultimate Boot CD are: Name of Tool Version License Notes /BIOS !BIOS 3.20 Freeware BIOS 1.35.0 Freeware Website says V1.35.1, but program displays V1.35.0. CMOSPWD 5.0 GPL KEYDisk n/a Freeware PC CMOS Cleaner 2.0 Freeware Included as module in Parted Magic. Q&D Vital Data Manager 1.4h Freeware WipeCMOS 1.2 Freeware /CPU CPUstress 2.5.4 Freeware CPUburn 1.4a GPL Included in CPUstress. CPU Burn-in 1.00 Freeware Included in CPUstress. The Linux version which is included in UBCD is at V1.00. V1.01 applies to Windows only. CPUinfo n/a GPL Included in CPUstress. CPUID 2.19 GPL Intel Optimized LINPACK Benchmark 11.2.0 Freeware Included in CPUstress. Intel Processor Frequency ID (P3 and below) 7.2 Freeware Intel Processor Identification Utility (P4 and above) 5.30 Freeware Mersenne Prime Test 23.9.2 Free software Included in CPUstress. Mersenne Prime Test 28.5 Free software Included in CPUstress. Stress 1.04 GPL Included in CPUstress. StressCPU (requires CPU with SSE) 2.0 GPL Included in CPUstress. System Stability Tester 1.5.1 GPL Included in CPUstress. x86test 0.10a GPL /HDD/Boot Management BOOTMGR 05-AUG-2012 Freeware Boot Partition 2.60 Freeware EditBINI 1.01.1 Freeware GAG (Graphical Boot Manager) 4.10 GPL Gujin 2.8.7 GPL MBRtool 2.3.200 Freeware MBRWork 1.08 Freeware PLoP Boot Manager 5.0.15 Free for personal use Smart BootManager 3.7.1 GPL SPFDISK (Special FDISK) 2000-03v Freeware Super Grub Disk 0.9799 GPL Super Grub2 Disk 2.00s8 GPL XFDISK (Extended FDISK) 0.9.3 beta Freeware XOSL (Extended Operating System Loader) 1.1.5 GPL XOSL-OW (Extended Operating System Loader) 1.1.6 GPL /HDD/Data Recovery Q&D Unit/Track/Head/Sector 1.3j Freeware Offline NT Password & Registry Editor 140201 n/a PCLoginNow 2.0 Freeware Included as module in Parted Magic. PCRegEdit 1.0 Freeware Included as module in Parted Magic. PhotoRec 7.1 GPL Included in Parted Magic. TestDisk 7.1 GPL Included in Parted Magic. /HDD/Device Info and Management AMSET (Maxtor) 4.00 Freeware ATAINF 1.3 Freeware ATA Password Tool 1.1 Freeware Change Definition Utility (for Fujitsu M16xx/M2915 HDDs) n/a Freeware DiskCheck 4.3.0 Freeware DISKINFO 1.02 Freeware ESFeat (ExcelStor) 2.30 Freeware Feature Tool (IBM/Hitachi) 2.15 Freeware GSmartControl 0.8.6 GPL Included in Parted Magic. SMARTUDM 2.00 Freeware UATA100 (Seagate) 3.06 Freeware UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPD/MPE/MPF series HDDs) 1.13 Freeware UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPG series HDDs) 1.17 Freeware Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital) June, 2003 Freeware WDIDLE3 (Western Digital) 1.05 Freeware /HDD/Diagnosis ATA Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu) 7.0 Freeware Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Western Digital) 5.27 Freeware Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Western Digital) 5.21 Freeware Latest V5.22 has the note in version history "Removed missing test tracks check". Since we are uncertain of the impact of this change, older version has been included just in case. Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Western Digital) 4.15 Freeware V5.x has been reported not to work on some older machines, so V4.15 has been included as a backup. Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi) 4.16 Freeware ES-Tool (Samsung) 3.01v Freeware ESTest (ExcelStor) 4.50 Freeware GWSCAN (Gateway) 3.15 Freeware For IDE hard drives 10GB or smaller. GWSCAN (Gateway) 5.12 Freeware For IDE hard drives larger than 10GB. HDAT2 5.3 Freeware Latest stable release, but with device-level testing disabled. HUTIL (Samsung) 1.21 Freeware From soeren: "HUTIL 2.00 lacks the possibility to view the SMART values and it appears to be a lot slower than 1.21. It’s only needed for the newest Samsung drives, the "older" ones still work with 1.21." HUTIL (Samsung) 2.10 Freeware MHDD32 4.5 Freeware Older version included because it supports ATA/SCSI Terminal for scripting, which was removed in the new version. MHDD32 4.6 Freeware PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 4.09 Freeware Older version included because this is an uncripppled version that works with non-Maxtor HDDs. PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 4.23 Freeware SCSIMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 1.21 Freeware SeaTools for DOS (Seagate/Maxtor) 2.22 Freeware Version included is 2.22 instead of 2.23 at Kaur Kuut’s recommendation. Apparently the only feature introduced in V2.23 was "Long Test time out failure for drives that take too long to complete the Long Test", but that prevents large capacity HDDs from completing the long generic test because all modern HDDs time out by default. Seagate subsequently removed this feature in SeaTools for Windows V1.4.0.2, but never did for SeaTools for DOS V2.23. SeaTools for DOS (Seagate/Maxtor) 1.12 Freeware SHDIAG (Samsung) 1.25 Freeware TAFT (The ATA Forensics Tool) 1.2 Freeware ViVARD 0.4 Freeware The official website is down. Various third party websites claim to have V1.0, but is actually V0.4. /HDD/Disk Cloning Clonezilla n/a GPL Included in Parted Magic. CopyWipe 1.14 Freeware EaseUs Disk Copy 2.3.1 Freeware g4u 2.6 BSD HDClone (Free Edition) 7.0.2 Freeware partimage 0.6.9 GPL Included in Parted Magic. Partition Saving 4.30 Freeware PC INSPECTOR clone-maxx 1.0 Freeware Actual version is 0.95 Build 769, but is referred to as 1.0 on product website. Q&D Unit...