Ultimate boot CD

Computers & Mobile

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Handy bootable CD if you fix/restore old computers –

“You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:

  • Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives.
  • Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive.
  • Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD.


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. “
[via] – Link.

Related:
Ultimate Boot CD for Windows – Link.

10 thoughts on “Ultimate boot CD

  1. davezatz says:

    Old news and not best-of-breed (whatever that means).

  2. philliptorrone says:

    ok – send in a better one, we’ll post it :)

  3. rautiocination says:

    it has enough, its saved my a$$ _countless_ times . . . hell just testdisk on its own has solved so many problems windows has had where it obliterated my partition table. Perhaps not best of breed, but still definitely worth a download just to be prepared.

  4. DGary says:

    Hirem’s Boot CD is about the only one that’s more “Ultimate” and consistantly updated, but it’s a pain to get a copy of.

  5. Nick says:

    You can make something like that with a modified SuperGRUB disk and a few utility CDs. You can even dual-boot liveCDs from one CD.

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