Overview
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!
Tools currently included in the Ultimate Boot CD are:
Name of Tool Version
Hard Disk Diagnosis
Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi) 3.50
PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 4.06
DLG Diagnostic (Western Digital) 5.03
SeaTools Desktop (Seagate) 1.06.02
Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu) 6.10
SHDIAG (Samsung) 1.25
HUTIL (Samsung) 1.15
Hard Disk Device Management
IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool 1.90
AMSET (Maxtor) 1.0
UATA100 (Seagate) 3.06
Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital) June, 2003
SMARTUDM 2.00
Hard Disk Wiping
AutoClave 0.3
Active@ KillDisk Free Edition 3.0
Hard Disk Cloning
HDClone (Free Edition) 1.0
g4u 1.12
Partition Tools
Ranish Partition Manager 2.43
XFDISK (Extended FDISK) 0.9.3beta
SPFDISK (Special FDISK) 2000-03k
TestDisk 4.4
Partition Resizer (
http://zeleps.com/)
Nathan complained that this site contains malicious popups, so I have removed the hyperlink. Visit at your own risk! 1.3.4
SavePart 2.80
Free FDISK 1.2.1
Boot Managers
Smart BootManager 3.7R1
Gujin 0.8
File Managers
DOS Navigator 3.7.0
File Maven 3.5a
NTFS Tools
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor 030426
Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.1
EditBINI 1.01.1
Memory Diagnosis
Memtest86 3.0
Windows Memory Diagnostic n/a
DocMem RAM Diagnostic 1.45a
DOS Boot Disks
Bart's Network Boot Disk n/a
Bart's CDROM Boot Disk n/a
Linux-based Rescue Disks
Tom's Boot Disk 2.0.103
Recovery Is Possible (RIP) 2.0
BasicLinux 2.1
Trinux 0.80rc2
System Information
AIDA16 2.12
NSSI 0.57.4
PC-Config 9.33
Benchmarks
System Speed Test 32 4.78
Antivirus Tools
F-Prot Antivirus for DOS (Personal use only)
Virus definition: 18 Oct 2003
Includes read-only freeware version of NTFSDOS.
3.14b
McAfee Antivirus Scanner 4.14.0
BIOS Tools
CMOS Password Recovery 4.3
Network Tools
Freesco 0.3.2
When you boot up from the CD, a text-based menu would be displayed, and you would be able to select the tool you want to run. The selected tool actually boots off a virtual floppy disk created in memory.
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more info & D/L links:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/