Ultimate Boot CD for Windows®

[Slowhand Hussein]

http://www.ubcd4win.com

"UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to
repair/restore/diagnostic almost any computer problem.

All software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®.

UBCD4Win uses Bart's PE© to boot into a Windows® "pre-install"
environment, basically Windows® booted from CD. With network support,
the ability to modify NTFS volumes, recover deleted files, create new
NTFS volumes, scanning hard drives for viruses, etc. this project is
almost everything you need to repair your system problems.

There are many other types of utilities included to allow you to
recover and/or repair a damaged system. Additional applications
included are CD Burning, Backup/cloning, Defragmenter's, Password
recovery, the list goes on!!"

 

[Frank Bohan]

http://www.ubcd4win.com

"UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to
repair/restore/diagnostic almost any computer problem.

All software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®.

Whether you use the UBCD or not, the list of freeware programs included is
worth looking at:
http://www.ubcd4win.com/contents.htm

===

Frank Bohan
¶ You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

 

[John S.]

http://www.ubcd4win.com

"UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to
repair/restore/diagnostic almost any computer problem.

All software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®.

UBCD4Win uses Bart's PE© to boot into a Windows® "pre-install"
environment, basically Windows® booted from CD. With network support,
the ability to modify NTFS volumes, recover deleted files, create new
NTFS volumes, scanning hard drives for viruses, etc. this project is
almost everything you need to repair your system problems.

There are many other types of utilities included to allow you to
recover and/or repair a damaged system. Additional applications
included are CD Burning, Backup/cloning, Defragmenter's, Password
recovery, the list goes on!!"

It sounds impressive.

I wonder though if any user here though can tell me if you can
install Bart's PE on an IBM laptop where the Windows files are on
a hidden partition and apparently archived in some proprietary
format.

I recently bought an IBM laptop (R51) and it doesn't appear to
have a set of CAB files for restoring Windows XP. I made a set
of "Recovery" CDs which are intended to recover the computer to
its ex factory condition. There are 7 CDs, which will have all
the Windows files on them I guess.

There is a bootable recovery disk plus six "product recovery"
disks. The large files on the product recovery disks have an
extension unknown to me - .imz

Guess I'm straying a bit off the freeware topic (though I am
wanting to find out if I can use Bart's PE) - just wondering if
any IBM laptop user in this group has managed to install Bart's?

Cheers,

John S

 

[Ben Alias]

It sounds impressive.

I wonder though if any user here though can tell me if you can
install Bart's PE on an IBM laptop where the Windows files are on
a hidden partition and apparently archived in some proprietary
format.

I recently bought an IBM laptop (R51) and it doesn't appear to
have a set of CAB files for restoring Windows XP. I made a set
of "Recovery" CDs which are intended to recover the computer to
its ex factory condition. There are 7 CDs, which will have all
the Windows files on them I guess.

There is a bootable recovery disk plus six "product recovery"
disks. The large files on the product recovery disks have an
extension unknown to me - .imz

Guess I'm straying a bit off the freeware topic (though I am
wanting to find out if I can use Bart's PE) - just wondering if
any IBM laptop user in this group has managed to install Bart's?

Cheers,

John S

There's a recent article about Bart PE by Fred Langa that you might
find informative:

In all, I think the latest BartPE is one of the best, if not *the* best,
foundation for a CD-based repair/recovery toolkit I've seen to date. With
native NTFS support, plus support for networking, file sharing, and
Remote Desktop Connections, it's powerful and flexible, and yet the XP-
derived interface makes it familiar and easy to use.

Click on over for full info on this must-have repair/recovery tool!
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167100904

C'ya,

Ben

 

[REM]

(John S.) wrote:

It sounds impressive.

I wonder though if any user here though can tell me if you can
install Bart's PE on an IBM laptop where the Windows files are on
a hidden partition and apparently archived in some proprietary
format.

I recently bought an IBM laptop (R51) and it doesn't appear to
have a set of CAB files for restoring Windows XP. I made a set
of "Recovery" CDs which are intended to recover the computer to
its ex factory condition. There are 7 CDs, which will have all
the Windows files on them I guess.

There is a bootable recovery disk plus six "product recovery"
disks. The large files on the product recovery disks have an
extension unknown to me - .imz

Guess I'm straying a bit off the freeware topic (though I am
wanting to find out if I can use Bart's PE) - just wondering if
any IBM laptop user in this group has managed to install Bart's?

I have not tried to create an UBCD4Win with a recovery set of CDs, but
I'm pretty sure that you can.

Check this link for a tool to view the image files on your CDs. but if
you can find and copy the \i386 directory to your hard drive you can
make the CD.

http://www.ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2443


http://www.ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2526&hl=recovery+cd

 

[rich]

It sounds impressive.

I wonder though if any user here though can tell me if you can
install Bart's PE on an IBM laptop where the Windows files are on
a hidden partition and apparently archived in some proprietary
format.

You have the wrong idea about UBCD (or any Bart's PE disk). It is not
installed on your computer. This is a 'live' CD which contains its own
operating system and boots off the CD into a "WindowsXP-like" environment.
The PE stands for pre-install environment (I think) and Bart's PE builder
uses the files from your XP installation CD to create the CD. Whether this
is legal or not is debatable - probably OK for your own use. There are many
free and commercial programs which can be included on a Bart's CD by use of
plugins. If you are interested do a google for barts pe and look at the web
page.

I recently bought an IBM laptop (R51) and it doesn't appear to
have a set of CAB files for restoring Windows XP. I made a set
of "Recovery" CDs which are intended to recover the computer to
its ex factory condition. There are 7 CDs, which will have all
the Windows files on them I guess.

You need to seriously worry about the "I guess" bit, by the time you find
that your backups do not work it will be too late. I have yet to find a
decent freeware disk image maker and Windows backup is a load of rubbish
(please do not bombard me with driveimageXP, xxcopy etc - tried them all -
not impressed). Splash out a bit of cash on Acronis Truimage or a bit less
on Terabytes Image4Windows or get a copy of Norton Ghost version 8 (last
decent version) from ebay.

There is a bootable recovery disk plus six "product recovery"
disks. The large files on the product recovery disks have an
extension unknown to me - .imz

The usual app which produces .imz files is Winimage but who knows with IBM

Guess I'm straying a bit off the freeware topic (though I am
wanting to find out if I can use Bart's PE) - just wondering if
any IBM laptop user in this group has managed to install Bart's?

Just remember that use of a "live" CD is hardware dependent, probably 128 Mb
RAM is a minimum, use of USB and Firewire external drives is almost
certainly a problem. A live CD is very useful to do independent virus
scans, delete files which are normally in use and of course back up that
partition containing your operating system. If you want to try a *real*
live CD, forget Windows and go for one of the Linux distros - Knoppix or
Kanotix - but that is another story.

 

[DevilsPGD]

In message <[email protected]> "rich"

You have the wrong idea about UBCD (or any Bart's PE disk). It is not
installed on your computer. This is a 'live' CD which contains its own
operating system and boots off the CD into a "WindowsXP-like" environment.
The PE stands for pre-install environment (I think) and Bart's PE builder
uses the files from your XP installation CD to create the CD. Whether this
is legal or not is debatable - probably OK for your own use. There are many
free and commercial programs which can be included on a Bart's CD by use of
plugins. If you are interested do a google for barts pe and look at the web
page.

The issue is more how to build a BartPE disk without access to a Windows
XP CD (since the files are on a recovery partition)

 

[Tramp]

|There is a bootable recovery disk plus six "product recovery"
|disks. The large files on the product recovery disks have an
|extension unknown to me - .imz


According to here
http://www.computing.net/windows31/wwwboard/forum/10497.html .imz files
are WinImage http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm files. You could
always download the trial version and extract the files to a folder and
go from there.


|
|Guess I'm straying a bit off the freeware topic (though I am
|wanting to find out if I can use Bart's PE) - just wondering if
|any IBM laptop user in this group has managed to install Bart's?
|
|Cheers,
|
|John S
|
|
|
|

 

[Tramp]

Or even better you can just download this extraction tool. Which is
free.

"This tools allow you to extract files from a disk image created using
WinImage, FDFormat or compatible tools, running under MS-DOS, Windows
95, Windows 98 or the Windows NT console. "

http://www.winimage.com/extract.htm
ftp://ftp.winimage.com/extrac21.zip

 

[REM]

"rich" <[email protected]> wrote:

You need to seriously worry about the "I guess" bit, by the time you find
that your backups do not work it will be too late. I have yet to find a
decent freeware disk image maker and Windows backup is a load of rubbish
(please do not bombard me with driveimageXP, xxcopy etc - tried them all -
not impressed). Splash out a bit of cash on Acronis Truimage or a bit less
on Terabytes Image4Windows or get a copy of Norton Ghost version 8 (last
decent version) from ebay.

Not to bombard, but DrvImagerXp works perfectly and costs nothing. So
does xxcopy (the last time I used it on a 9x-Me system). This
impresses me... what more can you ask of an imaging or mirroring
program than that it work correctly and costs nothing?

 

[Thore]

........ or get a copy of Norton Ghost version 8 (last
decent version) from ebay.

I've used this for several years (from version 5.1), and have used it
about ten times to restore after HD crash...
Takes a weekly backup from C: to an image on D:, and then, when the HD
crashes its just to install a new HD and restore the last image, make
that simple changes from within this week, and then u go...

On my W98 machine with about 4 GB data it takes about 12 minutes... to
restore. (the same as the weekly backup-to-image.

The only odd thing I've seen is, when an image is made by e.g. ver. 6.5,
i can't restore it with ver 5.1, but I live with that...

Everything is made from DOS, booted from floppy..

BTW: Version 8 is included in the newest version 9..
Version 8 is also DOS, while ver. 9 runs on WinXP/2K...

 

[rich]

Not to bombard, but DrvImagerXp works perfectly and costs nothing. So
does xxcopy (the last time I used it on a 9x-Me system). This
impresses me... what more can you ask of an imaging or mirroring
program than that it work correctly and costs nothing?

err... speed and convenience ? - didnt say that they didnt work.

 

[REM]

Thore <dinotecATmail.dk> wrote:

I've used this for several years (from version 5.1), and have used it
about ten times to restore after HD crash...
Takes a weekly backup from C: to an image on D:, and then, when the HD
crashes its just to install a new HD and restore the last image, make
that simple changes from within this week, and then u go...

This seems dangerous to me. If you catch something it will be
reapplied from your weekly image.

98 isn't really being included in critical updates from what I've
read, so you have no real way of battling security hole exploitations
or of really knowing if you have been exploited. The same thing holds
true for me with XP Pro, except that they are still making critical
updates... after the fact.

I'd suggest that the next time you do a fresh install that you
consider creating an OS partition and a data partition. Only the data
partition needs to be backed up weekly and you can restore the OS
partition daily, or weekly, to get rid of any malware that found its
way in. That is, keep a static OS image that you know to be
unexploited, preferrably applying all critical updates from the MS CD
before even going online.

That's my take on security and data protection anyway...

 

[REM]

I have not tried to create an UBCD4Win with a recovery set of CDs, but
I'm pretty sure that you can.

Check this link for a tool to view the image files on your CDs. but if
you can find and copy the \i386 directory to your hard drive you can
make the CD.

http://www.ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2526&hl=recovery+cd

Another new link concerning using the \i386 folder on your hard drive
to create a bootable CD (Ultimate Boot CD 4 Win):

http://www.ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2563&hl=

 

[REM]

err... speed and convenience ? - didnt say that they didnt work.

I did not time the restore of a 30 gig primary partition with
DrvImagerXP, but I would guess it took 20 minutes, probably less.

The same was true for xxcopy when I used it; like falling off a log.

Differing strokes for differing folks I guess.

 

[Art]

Not to bombard, but DrvImagerXp works perfectly and costs nothing. So
does xxcopy (the last time I used it on a 9x-Me system). This
impresses me... what more can you ask of an imaging or mirroring
program than that it work correctly and costs nothing?

XXCLONE works well for creating a bootable cloned drive on the NT
based OS.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[Mel]

BTW: Version 8 is included in the newest version 9..
Version 8 is also DOS, while ver. 9 runs on WinXP/2K...

DrvImagerXP was very slow on the machine I used it on, so much so that I
went out and got Version 9. The nice thing about v9 is that you can boot
the CD to a Pre-Install Environment and run the program standalone.

 

[REM]

Mel <[email protected]> wrote:

DrvImagerXP was very slow on the machine I used it on, so much so that I
went out and got Version 9.

Do you recall any specifics? Was the hardware in good shape?

There are notes about defragging, bad sector problems, and the file
size that works the fastest, 650 mb. iirc.

I used 450 mb. files and it is plenty fast.

 

[Mel]

Do you recall any specifics? Was the hardware in good shape?

There are notes about defragging, bad sector problems, and the file
size that works the fastest, 650 mb. iirc.

I used 450 mb. files and it is plenty fast.

DrvImagerXP didn't use the high speed data transfer modes of the
integrated Hard Disk Controller.

 

[Don Boring]

I downloaded the .iso and burned a CD
and booted my Pentium 4 machine with it.

My question to anyone that has used it
is: Would this be considered a RESCUE
disk if my machine took a dump on me?

Or would I want to use the XP disk to
fix the machine?

My machine is running in top shape right
now, so I don't have any reason to use it.

Would it help me fix a system if Windoz
was all screwed up?

I may be naive here, but I don't know what
this disk will do for me?

DB