The Ultimate Boot CD

You must have heard of Linux Live CDs. We use them for different purposes,

such as rescue, recovery, antivirus scanning etc, in Linux environment. Let's

now try to build a Live CD for Windows with similar tools that may help you in

recovering your Windows machine from viruses/ hacker attacks, system failures or

miss-configurations. That is quite possible and all you need is a piece of free

software called Ultimate Boot CD and a genuine copy of Windows Installer CD.



This tool has more than 50 freeware utilities (plug-ins), like antivirus, file
recovery, networking tools, CD burning software, MBR backup and many others. You

can download UBCD for free and then install it by running its simple setup

process. Once that is done, you are ready to write your own boot CD, that is

nothing short of being the ultimate.

Define the Source of Windows recovery files and name of the Output folder. Plugins are used to enable or disable any in-built utility.	Say, we want to put AVG Antivirus as a plug-in. For that, it will give us two options. Either we can take our installed antivirus to the CD or can directly take the latest version from the Internet.
The entire updated AVG antivirus is downloaded for its inclusion in our boot CD. Once the download is complete, you just have to enable the service by clicking Enable.	Now, by using Build, you can build the ISO image of the boot CD. This is how it reports, when you press the Build button. Once that is done, you are ready to burn the CD.