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Easily Boot Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) from a USB flash drive | USB Pen Drive Linux
Install and Boot Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) from a USB Thumbdrive

In this simplified USB Ultimate Boot CD walkthrough tutorial, we will demonstrate How To create a USB bootable Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) using a Windows host PC to create the USB UBCD. Ultimate Boot CD is an awesome PC diagnostics tool that condenses over 100 useful PC diagnostics and hardware troubleshooting tools into a single easy to use interface.

USB Ultimate Boot CD Screenshot:

Simple USB Ultimate Boot CD How-To:

1. Optional: Format the USB pen drive stick as Fat16 or 32 using the HP USB tool
2. Create a folder named UBCD on your Windows host PC
3. Download the UBCD ISO and move to your UBCD folder
4. Download the UBCDfix.exe file and run it, extracting to your UBCD folder
5. From the UBCD folder, click fixubcd.bat and follow the onscreen instructions
6. Move the contents within the /UBCD/USBUBCD folder to your USB flash drive
7. From your USB flash drive, run makeboot.bat to make it bootable
8. Reboot and set your computer to Boot from the USB device
9. On next launch, you should be booting Ultimate Boot CD from your USB stick

Updated 12/27/2007 simplified the tutorial to include batch files that automate the Ultimate Boot CD USB installation process.

Holy crap-- somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop!!!

No-- wait-- sorry. That's just my USB drive. My bad. Never mind.

(And after the jump, how to make your own.)

instructables : Credit Card SD Holder

Neat Idea to keep some of your most important data with you at all times, or just a neat way to make sure you have a spare card for your Digi Cam

Hack Attack: A beginner's guide to Quicksilver - Lifehacker

Pretty good run down on the features of this great program.