Ever wonder how to make your own bootable CD?

How to Make a Bootable CD

We are so accustomed at getting a usable CD for software installation and virus detection.  In some cases, you need to make it on your own.  Find out more in this article.

Computers nowadays are usually equipped with compact disk (CD) drive.  CD can hold bigger storage compared to previous storage media like diskette and floppy disk.  Therefore it is seldom used to store software installer, antivirus system and backup data.  In order to make them work, you need to make them bootable.  So what is a bootable CD?

Bootable CD in question here is a CD that contains the operating system (either simple or complex) so that it can run by itself.  This means it can make the computer works without requiring the computer to read the hard drive during start up.  It is very useful to restore faulty hard drive and to clean a computer that has been infected by virus or malware.  That way, all programs in your hard drive will not run, including the virus.  This is to avoid further damage to the computer.  However, the contents on your hard drive can be accessed through a bootable CD.


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Ultimate Boot CD - Another great Diagnotic tool

Ultimate Boot CD ( UBCD) is a bootable CD Several System diagnostic tools which can be used when your computer go kaput or not responding or for any reason it’s not working. It contains several tools which can run several diagnostic utility including few free to use Anti virus and Anti Malware tools.  You can use it to diagnose hard disk problem, network problem, perform low level operation on Hard disk and many other things.

Ultimate Boot CD can be used to run floppy based program from a Cd and can run on better speed than floppy drive. Also these days most system does not comes with floppy drive, but they come with Cd ROM and Netbook are coming only with USB port. Ultimate Boot Cd can be used on a USB drive by using a script available on this CD itself. So if you have access to another computer and you need to run these diagnostic on your netbook you can prepare your USB drive loaded with these utilities and then run the diagnostics.


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Hiren's Boot Cd 9.9 - The Great Daignostic Utility

Hiren’s BootCD is a bootable CD which contains number of System Diagnostic and maintainance program. It can be used to Boot your system if you Operating system is corrupted and not responding. This CD contains several tools including disk cloning and imaging tools, MBR tools, partitioning agents, data recovery tools, system performance benchmarks, BIOS tools, and Several more which can be used to fix your problems. Several tools contained on Cd does the same thing but they are included on CD to provide users with number of choice and UI options.

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Hiren's Boot CD Menu Screen

Here is a list of tools which are included on the CD –


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