Remember the good old days, when PCs were young and programs were
small?You could put DOS and a bunch of useful tools on a single
floppy disk, which always held a place of honor near your computer
for when things went south. Technology changes and bloatware have
changed this, but Ultimate Boot CD brings them back with a
high-tech vengeance.
To be clear on what UBCD isn't--it's not a suite of fancy utilities
with a menu structure and lots of help screens. The disk is a
collection of bootable disk images, all stored on a bootable CD.
Boot the CD, then choose a disk image. The system then boots from
the image, and you're running the programs on the disk. Each image
has different tools, different interfaces, and different utilities.
This is like a binder full of floppies on a single CD:a great time
saver, but not a tool for technophobes or general users. Some of
the programs on this disk can wreck your system beyond recovery if
you do not know exactly what you are doing; by the same token, a
skilled user can sometimes bring data back from the seemingly dead.
Ultimate Boot CD's Web site contains detailed help, FAQs, and a
forum to answer your questions. There are no 'readme' files or
other instructions in the file here; if you do not know what to do
with a .iso file, you will need to go their site for full
instructions.
Note:Certain of the programs are older and do not seem to
recognize the latest hardware; again, checking the FAQs and forums
of their site is the best recourse.
-- Ian Harac
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Ultimate Boot CD
- Version: 4.1.1
- Downloads Count: 631,773
- License Type: Free
- Price: Free
- Date Added: Jul 31, 2007
- Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Requirements: CD burner, CD-burning software
- File Size: 89.206 MB
- Author: Ultimatebootcd.com
Most recent User Reviews for Ultimate Boot CD
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Reviewed by: rk11239us
Duration of ownership: 8 Months
Strengths: Excellent repair programs
Weaknesses: Needs more user friendly interface
Overall Evaluation: User needs to be above average teck savey the price you can't beat
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Reviewed by: theallcanadian
Duration of ownership: 2 Months
Strengths: Everything. Saved my ass more than once.
Weaknesses: It's a bit slow.
Overall Evaluation: Can't believe it's free! What a wonderful world...
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Reviewed by: Snerp
Duration of ownership: 1 Days
Strengths: It has everything I need complete in one package.
Weaknesses: None...idiots (like the other reviewer) seem to have trouble with figuring out how to use it. Seems clicking links on the product's home page is just too darn hard to figure out...give me a break. Sure I am tech savvy, but all you need to use this software is half a brain...sadly that seems to be a precious commodity that not everyone has access to.
Overall Evaluation: This is a great software package. I have used others like it. Being able to grab one disk when you want to do anything DOS based is priceless. Ask for help if needed and you will receive it. The tech community is more than willing to help. Don't tell me otherwise...Others and myself have spent HUNDREDS of hours helping others in forums without more than a thank you to show for it. I don't want more, but I hate seeing someone complain about how we are hording information and keeping you from it.
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Reviewed by: AveragePCUser
Duration of ownership: 1 Days
Strengths: The Ultimate Boot CD does Boot from the CD drive.
Weaknesses: No ReadMe file unzips from the self-extracting file. No help comes with the download. The tutorials that are on the website don't have any explanation of what each piece program does.
Overall Evaluation: For the "at home", average person trying to get their PC back up and running, the Ultimate Boot Disk is NOT for you! If you have a degree in computer science, are a network administrator, or work in the computer field, then you probably understand what these programs do and could figure out how to use them. The programs are not intuitive to use. The people who use these programs are not giving out information on how they operate, and that is probably the culture in which these programs get used. Either you already know what these programs are about, or you just aren't part of that crowd. And you are not going to be let in easily. The Ultimate Boot CD is not for the Home PC user.
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