What is the Ultimate Boot CD?
It is a boot-able CD packed with various tools to troubleshoot your PC. When booted, it contains a windows like environment that has many tools for the cpu, memory, peripherals, sysinfo, benchmarking, BIOs tools, etc.
Why would I use it?
You can use it for a number of reasons. Maybe your computer has a virus and you need to get into a windows environment to diagnose the problem. Well UBCD loads directly into RAM memory so any residual virus damage is left alone on your hard drive. UBCD doesn't boot from the hard drive in your PC so you are virus free to troubleshoot.
Currently, I'm in the process of imaging about 25 new computers for a new location that my employer is putting up. Each of them are getting booted into UBCD and I am applying the image directly to the idle hard drive. This allows me to apply the exact same image to all of the machines.

How do I get started?
Head on over to the UBCD web-site here and download an .iso image. From there you can burn the image onto a CD and use that CD and start booting like a ninja.
*Side note* you can use a utility on the UBCD to prepare a USB drive for booting. If you boot from a USB flash drive things load much faster than when running off of a CD.
So, what are you waiting for? Go give it a try and leave me some feedback below!
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