Top 15 Ultimate Boot CD Alternative and Similar Softwares | Mar 2024

The last Boot CD you'll ever need.

You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:

Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.

Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive. Even if you do have a floppy drive, it is still much much faster to run your diagnostic tools from the CDROM drive, rather than wait for the tool to load from the floppy drive.

1. Victoria

Victoria Victoria - An experimental program to work with HDD. Victoria is a small application designed to assess performance, test and perform minor repairs to your IDE drive and SATA HDD. It's designed primarily for HDD repairmen in stationary conditions and is not intended to test the system hard drive. However,......

2. FalconFour's Ultimate Boot CD

FalconFour's Ultimate Boot CD F4UBCD, FalconFour's Ultimate Boot CD, will be the last Boot CD you'll ever need. Based of off Hiren's 13.0 Rebuilt, this BootCD includes extra features including MS Diagnostic and Recovery Tools (DaRT), both versions 5.0 for XP systems, and 6.5 for Vista & 7-based systems. It also includes a standard......

3. Win Toolkit

Win Toolkit Win Toolkit is a lightweight and easy to use application that was created in order to help you customize your Windows installation! With this tool you can integrate Addons, Drivers, Gadgets, Language packs, Modified Files, Theme Packs, Tweaks, Silent Installers, Updates.You can also remove features such as Windows Media Player......

4. Universal USB Installer

Universal USB Installer Universal USB Installer is a Live Linux USB Creator that allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive. The Universal USB Installer is easy to use. Simply choose a Live Linux Distribution, the ISO file, your Flash Drive and, Click Install.......

5. EasyEFI

EasyEFI EasyEFI is a boot CD that works with all processors, which will enable install Mac OS X Snow Leopard Retail on a PC.It is recommended to install Mac OS X a separate hard drive (especially if you have Windows or other installed OS), as OSX requires the installation of a......

6. USBFastBoot

USBFastBoot USBFastBoot is a small utility that helps you to quickly test your bootable USBs or disk images. In fact, currently it works for drives (USB, HDD and CD/DVD), ISO (cd image) and IMG (floppy image). It simply adds a context menu item "Boot on QEMU" that you can click to.........

7. ALT Linux

ALT Linux ALT Linux is a set of RPM-based operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel and Sisyphus packages repositoryALT Linux Rescue is a moderate sized LiveCD distribution that is designed to help sysadmins fix and repair many kinds of problems with systems they are or feel responsible for; so......

8. YUMI

YUMI YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer), is the successor to MultibootISOs. It can be used to create a Multiboot USB Flash Drive containing multiple operating systems, antivirus utilities, disc cloning, diagnostic tools, and more. Contrary to MultiBootISO's which used grub to boot ISO files directly from USB, YUMI uses syslinux to......

9. WinToFlash

WinToFlash WinToFlash is a software for transfer your Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7 setup from CD or DVD to flash in some mouse clicks. This is about you can install your Windows from flash card, USB stick, HDD, etc to your computer or netbook.And this is......

10. XBoot

XBoot XBoot is a easy-to-use utility for creating Multiboot USB/ISO.You may have seen many bootable ISO files like Linux live CDs , Antivirus rescue CDs etc. XBoot can combine these ISO files in to one Multiboot ISO file or create Multiboot USB in just few clicks. Simply Drag and drop ISO......

11. MHDD

MHDD MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics.MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access an USB storage, there are drivers for emulation (USB->SCSI).This software can make precise diagnostic of the mechanical part of a drive, view SMART attributes, perform......

12. Dabid's Multiboot

Dabid's Multiboot Dabid's Multiboot is a GUI substitute for bootcfg, popular in France. This tool works as a simplified editor for the boot.ini file (where settings for WinNT built-in boot loader NTLDR are stored); as such it can boot a computer with multiple copies/versions of Windows. You can also create shorcuts for......

13. ErAce

ErAce ISO files: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/mirror/temp/sf2015/e/er/erace/ ErAce is software that will over write hard drive 1-100 times. So it fullfills strictest security standards i.e. DOD 5220.22-M. In that way it is impossible to recover data. If you delete files and empty the recycle bin it is possible to recover data with recovery......

14. RMPrepUSB

RMPrepUSB Here is a list of the things you can do with RMPrepUSB (works on most types of USB storage devices such as USB Flash memory pens, USB SD cards, USB hard disks, etc.): 1. Partition, Format and make bootable a USB drive - This is the main purpose of RMPrepUSB.......

15. BootMed

BootMed The BootMed Live CD is an Ubuntu Remix for those new to Linux. It's main goal is to help the average Windows user to recover a computer that will not boot. BootMed can help you remove viruses from a computer that will not boot, recover deleted files and partitions. It......