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The Ultimate Diagnostic Boot CD

It is very handy to have a linux live CD at hand when your system crashes and your operating system of choice does not boot anymore. This could mean that either the software or the hardware fails to load the operating system. You should try to diagnose the problem with a live CD before thinking of reinstalling the operating system or exchanging parts of the hardware.

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The ultimate boot CD offers you all the tools you need to find the errors and correct them.  Tools are sorted in categories like hard disk management, boot managers, file tools, CPU and memory tests and bios tools. Most categories offer several tools for diagnosis and repair, the hard disk categories for instance offer tools from the various hard disk manufacturers like Seagate and Maxtor.

You find anti-virus tools on the disk that can be used to check the system safely for malware. A great feature of the ultimate boot CD is that the CD is not only available as a linux distribution but that instructions exist how you could create a windows live CD from it. Most users tend to “fear” linux and might not be willed to use such a linux live CD, this should be different for a windows live CD.

The website offers customisation instructions and even CDR labels for the disk. They have a extensive help section as well, if you get stuck visit the website again and read the common questions and answers as well as the bugs and workaround section.

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About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

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