Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

some guy reviewed v5.2.9 on Mar 5, 2014

sweet a must have !

BANDIT- reviewed v5.2.8 on Dec 18, 2013

@Noobs .. A full list of Included Apps to Download as required. If you don't want the whole 560Mb pack. Read up on what these Apps do... & Take care .. ~_^
-http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/

You WILL need some CMD: knowledge... -http://ss64.com/nt/

Used by Myself as Standalones (If Req'd)... One of my favs is "TestDisk" ... ^_^
This is the Dogs .. 5* .. ANY day of the Week / Of the Year / Of 2k+

pressreleasenetwork reviewed v5.1.1 on Aug 9, 2011

I would say its awesome, I think now all the things are being run by remote control in coming future. what you think people??

stephenstud reviewed v5.1 Beta 1 on Jun 23, 2011

This is a great cd to have!

traumadoc reviewed v5.1 Alpha 2 on Apr 11, 2011

Don't complain what-so-ever that it is useless to you, your needs, or doesn't do what it's supposed to do!! Apparently you have no idea what the "beta" of betanews means, nor what "alpha" means regarding software releases!!

wiebelhaus reviewed v5.0.3 on Sep 4, 2010

Fantastic been stable and relevant for years now.

andy2004 reviewed v5.0.3 on Aug 26, 2010

useless for my needs, WesternDigital HDD software didnt run in version 5.02 of this because of a missing License.txt file so couldnt run that check on it, , spinrite didnt see the drive at all, drive is an usb external, WD MYBOOK, most of the programs are old outdated versions from running the few that i did actually run.

beelzebub360 reviewed v5.0.1 on May 25, 2010

Excellent set of utilities. Have been using Ultimatebootcd since version 1.0. Highly recommended for any PC tech.
Not to bad. Its a all in one package. Seems to have most of the bases covered. Nice part is that you can put about 600mb of things on it as well as the main program
Not much to say really apart from its a life saver and i wish i discovered it when the first version came out, i have recomended it to everyone i know and they and i all very happy with it :-)

A must-have !!! Can save your computer

Every computer tech or admin must have this CD in its toolbox.

Very usefull to "simple" user too ;)

saper reviewed v5.0 Beta 11 on Feb 10, 2009

If u hv a USB U cn install on it & run from it & Vola
u hv the perfect Soft to Recover Data OR
LOG in A Protected Cd
JUST Wish It Had A simple meathod to install on a cd

DudeBoyz reviewed v5.0 Beta 11 on Feb 9, 2009

Testing fine, this latest release.

Question though - Does this contain any programs that are similar in function to ScanDisk / ChkDsk / Norton Disk Doctor, et-all?

I would like to be able to boot to this CD and be able to run such an application, but I'm more familiar with Bart's PE and that interface than I am with this character driven interface and the accompanying contents.

I'd really appreciate some help on that information . Thanks.

some guy reviewed v5.0 Beta 10 on Jan 21, 2009

while I do prefur the interface of a live cd like barts PE or vista pe this has some nice tools

mjm01010101 reviewed v5.0 Beta 9 on Jan 19, 2009

So vote a 4 for one version, and a 5 the next. repeat.

I don't recommend using this on a VM. You could damage a host with this CD. Use only when you know WTF you are doing.

DudeBoyz reviewed v5.0 Beta 9 on Jan 16, 2009

May not be the Best at what it does, but it's legal and open source and can be extremely helpful.

I do think they might want to create a supplemental version with a better interface, sort of like what DigiWiz did with PE Builder. Some of these apps can be pretty hard to figure out for people that are only used to GUI's, and perhaps they could make it more user friendly with more help files and wizard-type assistance.

Still, a very solid effort. Too bad they can't bundle Norton Ghost 2003 for DOS and Spinrite 6 in that bad boy. That'd be cool if they could get the companies to donate those tools under the GPL or some such thing.

Also, you may want to experiment with this in a Virtual Machine (VirtualBox, VirtualPC, VMware, etc.) until you become familiar with it. Some things can't easily be undone if you do them and they don't work out as expected.

Lastly, ALWAYS to a backup before making any significant changes to your rig. Hard drives are less expensive per gig than ever, it seems, so a good backup is well within reach for most computer users, I think. Better safe than sorry.

Please keep up the good work.

BTW, I do sorta wish we could vote for a 4.5 score. I think it deserves that, but not a 5. But I understand the appeal in keeping things simple.

aszure reviewed v5.0 Beta 8 on Jan 3, 2009

@langloisc
If you took hirens, and substituted it with freeware and GPL software, you would have ubcd.

I use this at work constantly. Very easy to dump to a thumb drive and away you go. A bit of a learning curve to customize it. But out of the box, it can fix most problems that one would come across.

poundsmack reviewed v5.0 Beta 8 on Dec 31, 2008

@langloisc

Hiren's boot CD is also a copywrite and EULA nightmear due to the fact that many of those programs are commercial are not allowed to be distributed that way.

As for the ultimate boot Cd, keep up the great work guys!

langloisc reviewed v5.0 Beta 8 on Dec 31, 2008

Hiren's Boot CD is much better in my opinion. It gives you a multitude of great tools for diagnostic use.

Stoerpser reviewed v5.0 Beta 7 on Dec 19, 2008

The autorun.inf points to
.\upcd\website\index
but this path don't exists on the image.

I don't know if this nessesary to work as boot-CD.

SueAmma reviewed v5.0 Beta 7 on Dec 18, 2008

@Pfurri,

What you say of others says a lot about yourself.

Maybe when you turn 15 you'll understand this.

mjm01010101 reviewed v5.0 Beta 6 on Dec 11, 2008

Helpful and I appreciate the work the author put into it.

Pfurri reviewed v5.0 Beta 6 on Dec 10, 2008

Very good tool & freeware too (great job) !!!
"dink" why do you rate (bad rating !)something, that you don't know exactly what it is ???
Are you really so stupid and brainless ?

yountmj reviewed v5.0 Beta 6 on Dec 9, 2008

It really doesn't get much better than this. This is an excellent collection of diagnostic tools and utilities. I'm glad this one includes INSERT, too.

dink reviewed v5.0 Beta 6 on Dec 9, 2008

Pfurri,
Go f*@k yourself!!!
I haven't even used the app.,
but had to enter something to be able to leave a comment.....
Have some common sense you brain-dead f*@khole!!!

ronaldgibson reviewed v4.1.0 on May 8, 2007

Version 4.0 and up does not include a Full version that would normally include Insert Linux. I found Insert useful and I keep version 3.4 handy.

ochentay4 reviewed v4.1.0 on May 8, 2007

this bootcd is excellent! it is all free software, its customizable and its lightweight. fully recommend using it along with hirens (pirate apps but what the hell...)

Dwiebelhaus reviewed v4.0.3 on Apr 16, 2007

The quintessential tech disc , Must have in any serious technicians toolbox.

Polychronopolis reviewed v4.0.3 on Apr 11, 2007

Absolutely love this project and I know this CD will rock as much as previous versions. Also note that if you have the ISO file, you can get the delta files below all the mirrors on the homepage. That will allow you to simply patch your existing ISO.

Lusono: Some of us are behind corporate firewalls that do not allow non-standard ports to be used. Therefore, we are forced to bombard the servers. I'll just wait a few days to let the feeding frenzy die down.

arossetti reviewed v4.0.3 on Apr 10, 2007

coover,

Apparently, none of the other servers have it yet either.

coover reviewed v4.0.3 on Apr 10, 2007

I shall give this a 5 only because I know it deserves it. I shall not see it in action soon, because the betanews server is evidently swamped with requests. While I have a relatively fast DSL internet account, the download from BetaNews is very slow, actually less than 500 bytes per second. Please note that I said "bytes" and not kilobytes or megabytes. My computer is estimating that this aproximately 82 MB download will take over 24 hours.

I think I shall kill the betanews download and attempt the download elsewhere. You may wish to do so, too.

Zygi reviewed v3.4 on Mar 1, 2006

It's must have for all your repair, diagnose and hundred more needs.

Howell reviewed v3.4 on Feb 16, 2006

A must-have !!! Can save your computer :D

Every computer tech or admin must have this CD in its toolbox.

Very usefull to "simple" user too ;)

TheBeastH6 reviewed v3.4 on Feb 16, 2006

Heeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Computer saver.

horsecharles reviewed v3.4 on Feb 15, 2006

QUOTE: 14 Feb 2006
After a long gap, Ultimate Boot CD Ver 3.4 is finally ready for download! There is the usual update of apps to their latest versions. Erwin Veermans has added a new feature on the FreeDOS bootdisk that allows you to update the virus database for F-Prot, McAfee and AVG over the network. A new expert mode has also been added (by pressing the [Ins] key at the menus) that allows you to choose which boot disk (FreeDOS, OpenDOS or MSDOS) to use when running certain apps if you encounter compatibility issues. For full details, please refer to Version History.

Since this is Valentine's Day, I would like to dedicate this release to my wife, who wants me to spend less time on my hobbies and more time with her. I am sorry honey, but absence makes the heart grows fonder. :-) Happy Valentines!

VERSION HERSTORY:
Disable RockRidge extension during mkisofs. Thanks to Eric for the suggestion.

Added expert mode for booting images. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for inspiring the feature in his dynamic scripts.

When you press [Ins] in any of the menus, an asterisk will appear at the bottom-left corner of the screen, indicating that you are in expert mode. Then when you launch any of the apps, a menu will appear that allows you to change the boot method (memdisk, diskemu, bcdw) or boot disk (fdubcd, drubcd, msubcd), subjected to availability. This is great for nailing down or working around compatibility issues without having to customize the UBCD image.

Note that MSUBCD.IMG is not included on the UBCD by default since it is based on MS-DOS, which is commercialware. If you want to use it, please download the boot image from Erwin's website and add it to your customized UBCD.

Updated FDUBCD, DRUBCD, FD32RDP, FSDMSRRC, FDNWD288, FDARA288 to V3.35. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for the update. NTFSDOS should now work on FDUBCD due to a FreeDOS kernel patch.

There is also a new feature under FDUBCD that allows you to update the latest virus database for F-Prot, McAfee and AVG if you are connected to the network. This is activated by typing ubcdvir at the command prompt.

How it works is that it copies the necessary files to the RAM disk, connects to the network, then downloads the latest virus database to the RAM disk. You also have the option of updating the executable files this way. For some reason, Avast cannot be run from the RAM disk, so this feature cannot be used with Avast.

F-Prot (EXE + DB) and McAfee (DB only) are always downloaded from source. McAfee (EXE only) and AVG (EXE + DB) must be downloaded from another location, since they require prior extraction and packaging into a ZIP file. By default, it points back to the files on this website, which I will try to maintain on a weekly basis.

If you want to host your own files, you should prepare and place the following files on your own web server, then type set UBCDURL=http://yoursite.com/pathtofiles before running ubcdvir.

You might also want to read up AutoVir: auto-updating AntiVirus Suite, an FAQ that Erwin Veermans has written on this topic.

Documentation has been updated by Scott D. Wares. Thanks!
Updated DFT to V4.05. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated HUTIL to V2.00. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated DBAN to V1.0.6. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated IBM Feature Tool to V2.00. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Removed Madboot due to the use of commercial components. Thanks to Eric Auer for the information.
Added ExcelStor's ESTest V3.70. Thanks to Steffen Bergner for the suggestion.
Added ExcelStor's SATA Tool V1.10. Thanks to Steffen Bergner for the suggestion.
Updated Necromancer's DOS Navigator to V2.15 Build 4000. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated Memtest86+ to V1.65. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated g4u to V2.1. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated SeaTools Desktop to V3.02.03en. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated MHDD32 to V4.6. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated memdisk to V3.11. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for the update.
Fixed some bugs in STARTUP.BAT for F-Prot. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for the update.
Updated Arachne to V1.87. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for the update.
Removed AntiVir Personal Edition because the free version is crippled (cannot scan subdirectories) and therefore quite useless.
Updated Darik's Boot and Nuke to V1.0.6.
Updated TestDisk to V6.2. Thanks to Christophe Grenier for the update.
Updated Partition Saving to V3.01. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated CMOSPWD to V4.8. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Added x86test V0.10a. Thanks to pointy for the suggestion.
Added StressCPU 24-Oct-05. Thanks to Adrian Stanciu for the suggestion. This utility seems to make Athlon CPUs hotter than CPU Burn-in.
Updated XXCOPY to V2.92.6. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated SPFDISK to 2000-03r. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated PCISniffer to V1.4. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated Gujin to V1.3. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated D-Browse to V1.24. Thanks for SebastienG for the update.
Updated Eraser for DOS to V5.7. Thanks for SebastienG for the update.
Replaced floppy version of Windows Memory Diagnostic with CD version, which is smaller by almost 1MB. Thanks to Paul for the suggestion.
Added mkubcd.bat and mkubcd.sh to root directory for creating customize UBCD ISO. Thanks to mark847 for the suggestion.
Updated Fujitsu Diagnostic Tool to V6.30. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Updated ASTRA to V5.11. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
Added NTFS4DOS Freeware Version. Thanks for chris122380 for the suggestion.
Removed ctramtest because it does not run properly under the latest version of FDUBCD.
Replaced GRUB with Super Grub Disk V0.9296
Updated PowerMax to V4.22. Thanks for SebastienG for the update.
Combined CPU Burn-in, Mersenne Prime Test and StressCPU into one boot image. Thanks for Adrian Stanciu for his work. Note that Adrian has included both V23 and V24 of Mersenne Prime Test because "the newer versions run significantly slower on pentium I, II, III CPUs, and the older version is recommended by the author for this kinds of CPUs". The right version will be executed based on the CPU information given by Linux kernel in /proc/cpuinfo.
Updated PCIDEVS.TXT to 7 Feb 2006.
Updated F-Prot virusdef to 7 Feb 2006.
Updated McAfee virusdef to 7 Feb 2006.
Reverted Ranish Partition Manager back to stable version V2.40. The latest V2.44 is a beta version and contains some bugs. Thanks to ololol for the information.

stisev reviewed v3.3 on Dec 21, 2005

The "special" version of FDISK on this boot cd is a FRIGGEN LIFE SAVER!

englishmen reviewed v3.3 on Apr 30, 2005

Not much to say really apart from its a life saver and i wish i discovered it when the first version came out, i have recomended it to everyone i know and they and i all very happy with it :-)

jpstoppa reviewed v2.4 on Aug 16, 2004

Excellent set of utilities. Have been using Ultimatebootcd since version 1.0. Highly recommended for any PC tech.

Kevin-Phat1 reviewed v1.7 on Oct 20, 2003

Not to bad. Its a all in one package. Seems to have most of the bases covered. 3 ***. Nice part is that you can put about 600mb of things on it as well as the main program