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Ultimate Boot CD

The Ultimate Computer Diagnostic Tool

By Greased up Deaf Guy, published Aug 11, 2006
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Anyone who has ever worked with computers knows when a problem occurs it could be any number of things that could be causing your problem. Now the hard part is diagnosing what is actually causing your machine to have problems. Is it a hardware issue? Or is it something to do with the operating system? Your job is to figure this out, you can do it the old fashioned way, which is by guess and check, but who wants to waste their time with that when there are free tools that can make your job a million times easier.

This is where Ultimate Boot CD comes into play. Ultimate Boot CD is a powerful tool you can download and burn to a CD that helps you diagnose problems with machines. Ultimate Boot CD works with any computer that has a CD-ROM drive. You can get your own free copy at www.ultimatebootcd.com. There is a lot of great information about Ultimate Boot CD on the website as well and I suggest reading the bugs and work arounds section before getting started. The tutorials section is good to read also, it includes instructions on burning the program to a bootable CD.

Now let me tell you what Ultimate Boot CD can do for you. First you must download the program and burn the ISO image file to a CD. Then put the CD into any machine with a problem, make sure that the computer BIOS is set to boot to CD-ROM first. The tool will open in a Graphical User Interface that is fairly simple to use even for less advanced users.

You get 10 options in the first Ultimate Boot CD work interface. These options are as follows, Main board Tools, for finding problems with your motherboard and components associated with it. Hard disk tools, for diagnosing problems with your hard drives, such as bad sectors or possibly issues with drivers. File system tools will help you to diagnose problems with your Operating system. User-defined tools are something I haven’t worked with but if it’s on Ultimate Boot CD it is useful!

Takeaways
  • You cant find another diagnostic CD with this many different tools.
  • This is a totally free program!
  • You can use it on nearly any machine with a CD-ROM drive.
Did You Know?
The programmer decided to make the program after he had trouble running DFT (Drive Fitness Test) on a floppyless machine. He emailed IBM technical support and asked them if it was possible to boot DFT from a CD, and the answer he got was "no". So he set out to prove them wrong and ended up creating Ultimate Boot CD.
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Good article, but Linux has had similar boot-CDs for long time now. Knoppix was one of the first to see the light of day. Windows i slowly gaining funktioality in addition to all blows and whissles.

Posted on 08/12/2006 at 6:08:00 AM

 
Good article, but Linux has had similar boot-CDs for long time now. Knoppix was one of the first to see the light of day. Windows i slowly gaining funktioality in addition to all blows and whissles.

Posted on 08/12/2006 at 6:08:00 AM

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