Download Ultimate Boot CD 5.0 ​​Beta 12

The developers behind Ultimate Boot CD are working hard with the development of version 5.0 and already released the twelfth beta release on Wednesday. Ultimate Boot CD is a large collection of open source and freeware programs intended for finding and solving mainly hardware problems. The beta is again only offered as a torrent download this time and is 256MB in size. The main change in this release is that in addition to the standard isolinux/syslinux boot menu, there is also a grub4dos boot menu, as the former didn’t always work under certain circumstances. The full changelog of this release looks like this:

Changes in UBCD V5.0b12:

• Added a complete grub4dos menu, besides a isolinux/syslinux one: For people who get ‘Invalid Opcode’ when booting certain images with memdisk.
• Added grub4dos (/ubcd/boot/grub4dos/grub.exe) for the grub4dos system (v0.4.4 2009-03-04)
• Added an extra menu item in /ubcd/menus/syslinux/main.cfg to be able to switch from isolinux/syslinux to the grub4dos menu.
• Fixed /ubcd/custom/custom.cfg
• Renamed some isolinux.cfg files to syslinux.cfg for consistency with the /ubcd/menus/syslinux folder.
• Rewritten and updated the help text syslinux/grub4dos files for Parted Magic.
• Renamed files in /ubcd/boot/dban to lowercase (grub4dos is case sensitive).
• Renamed files in /ubcd/boot/antivir and /antivir to lowercase (grub4dos is case sensitive).
• Added Windows 2008 and Windows 7 to supported operating systems in ubcd2iso and ubcd2usb.
• Added ubcd2iso.sh for linux.
• Added help text for putting UBCD on an USB thumb drive when using linux.
• Added syslinux2grub4dos.sh script for converting the isolinux/syslinux menu to grub4dos (linux only for the moment).
• Added linux script to update Avira antivirus to the last version.
• Added linux script to update ClamAv definition files to the last version.
• Added linux script to update F-prot definition files to the last version.
• Updated the Freedos image to v1.33
• Updated Offline NT Password & Registry Editor to v080802
• Updated Parted Magic to v3.7
• Updated ClamAV to v0.94.2
• Updated Xfprot to v2.1rc2
• Updated Avira AntiVir Rescue System to v3.3.5-20090304200943.
• Updated the CPUstress image to v2.1
• Updated version numbers of Gparted, PartImage, Testdisk and Photorec in config files.