Ultimate Boot CD lets you run diagnostics from CD, not from an unwell hard drive or a series of teeny floppies. You can create a boot CD with any of a variety of hard drive diagnostics, hard disk management programs, memory diagnostics, Linux-based rescue discs, and more.
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!
* New! 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.

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.

New features in UBCD V5.0 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 V5.0 now supports both syslinux/isolinux and grub4dos. This helps improve the chances that UBCD will boot on any particular machine.

Tools currently included in the Ultimate Boot CD

Changes in version 5.0.3:
* Added Kon*Boot V1.1
* Added Dsrfix V3.12
* Update ES*Tool to V3.01p. Added historical info about ES*Tool help text.
* Added AleGr MEMTEST V2.00
* Added DIMM_ID V3.57. This is a special UBCD*only contribution.
* Add IBM Disk Manager V9.57.
* Added AVG Rescue V9.0.100.
* Updated UBCD FreeDOS to V1.40. Updated AUTOEXEC.BAT and added "*n" to mdiskchk.com to avoid hanging on certain BIOSes. Removed "MOUSE_NCFG=0" in etc\global.set.
* Updated HDAT2 to V4.8.1.
* Updated ASTRA to V5.46.
* Added older version of HDAT2 (V4.5.3).
* Updated ubcd2iso and ubcd2usb to remove "boot.images" subdirectory (created by IZArc) before image creation.
* Added HWiNFO V5.5.0. Thanks to Johannes Hauber for suggesting this.
* Substitute econfig.c32 with whichsys.c32 and removed ubcd\menus\isolinux\main.cfg.
* Update Seagate DiscWizard to V11.0.8326.
* Updated Darik's Boot and Nuke to 2.2.6beta (rebuilt with isolinux V3.86 to improve compatibility).
* Updated files from syslinux 4.0.2.
* Updated grub4dos to V0.4.5b (2010*09*22) to support syslinux V4.
* Updated Hardware Detection Tool to V0.3.6.1 (from Syslinux 4.02).
* Updated HDClone to V3.9.4.
* Updated NSSI to V0.60.45.
* Updated Offline NT Password & Registry Editor to v100627.
* Updated Parted Magic to V5.5.
* Updated ubcd2iso.cmd to support optional "/g" parameter to use grub4dos as the bootloader.

Homepage - http://www.ultimatebootcd.com