THE NATION WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2011
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Saving and earning money from your PC T
HE Universal Boot Disc 2011 from The Nation Databank’s PC User-2-User forum, is saving money for some PC Users while earning money for others. The Disc, published in a unique partnership with the world’s largest databank of free and sharable software and programming codes, remains one of the most important tools in the arsenal of the hobbyist or professional PC Repair technician. Today we begin a review of some of the more than 127 software utilities and PC user tools on the disc. Indeed among many other functionalities, the disc allows computer users to bypass unknown passwords in Windows, suggesting that, forgeting Windows Passwords should no longer be a problem for well equipped PC Users. Hitherto, regular PC Users encountering such situation are forced to lose data, since
Using Universal Boot Disc 2011 such computers will have to be reinstalled, possibly with their hard disk needing to be freshly formatted. The alternative was to engage the services of profesional Windows system administrators who are trained to be able overide and bypass forgotten Windows Passwords, but this is always at some financial cost and substantial inconvenience to millions of PC users, who are mostly not IT savvy. The Password bypass tool on the Universal Boot Disc 2011, allows PC Users to overide access lockouts on computers running on any version of Windows, including the very secure Windows 7. The disc also makes it possible to remove forgotten BIOS access password, on computers that are so locked thus
The following tools are included with the Ultimate Boot CD 2011. When you boot up from the Disc, a text-based menu will be displayed, and you will be able to select the tool you want to run. CPU Management Software Tools BIOS Management Software To Identify, Test and Optimise PC CPU To Open and Reset PC BIOS CPU Burn-in 1.00 !BIOS 3.20 CPUinfo v7.2.20041115 (for Intel Processor BIOS v1.35.0 Frequency ID P3 and below) CMOSPWD 5.0 Intel Processor Identification Utility v4.22.20100302 ( for P4 and above) KEYDisk WipeCMOS 1.2 Mersenne Prime CPU Test v24.14 Data Recovery Software Offline NT Password & Registry Editor v080 Stress 1.00 StressCPU v2.0 (requires CPU with SSE) PhotoRec v6.12-WIP x86test 0.10a TestDisk v6.12-WIP
enabling the resetting of basic computer configurations and PC security setups. Kemi Makinde, spokesperson of the PC User-2-User and its partner, the burgeoning digital-age marketing forum Open Market (OM), said the disc is one way the forum desires to ensure that users of the different IT media the Open Market (OM) circulates information on, are never stranded, on account of a malfunctioning computer. The unique medium OM, distributes weekly Open Market User Lists & Details, on Discs. The UBCD2011 is currently distributing with this month’s disc The UBCD 2011 is able to jump start even “dead”computers, allowing OM users to quickly access the internet to browse OM’s website, even from a PC that will not start because of a malfunctioning hard disk.
Such computers will normally not even boot to allow simple trouble-shooting that may be necessary to fix them. The Universal Boot Disc 2011 makes it possible to also access such “dead” hard disks, so that current and old, but useful work files on them, can be copied for use on other computers, while the bad hard disks are being worked on. Regular computer users will simply boot with this critical disc in the disc drive of a computer with a faulty hard disk. But such users will have to choose what to run from any of the disc’s 127 utilities, grouped into 14 heads listed below . To be able to boot your computer from the disc, you may need to alter the booting sequence from the BIOS setup. The key to accessing theBIOS Setup depends on your computer BIOS type. You have to Press either the Esc, the F2 or the F10 key immediately you switch on the computer.
The selected tool boots off a virtual disk created in the PC memory. All the software listed below will be avaialable to run as if they are on floppy disk on the computer. Hard Disk Wiping Software Utilities Active@ KillDisk Free Edition v4.1.2393 (This free Edition. supports “One Pass Zeros”method only. Note that KillDisk V5.x is Windows only.) CopyWipe v1.14 Darik’s Boot and Nuke beta.2007042900
Boot Management Software Tools Boot Partition v2.60 boot.kernel.org (BKO) EditBINI v1.01.1 GAG (Graphical Boot Manager) v4.10 Gujinv2.8.1 + MBRtool v2.3.100
Fujitsu Erase Utility HDDErase v4.0 MAXLLF (Maxtor) 1.1 PC INSPECTOR e-maxx v0.95 SUTIL (Samsung) v1.01
MBRWork v1.07b + netboot.me PLoP Boot Manager v5.0.10 Freeware
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SPFDISK (Special FDISK) v2000-03t Super Grub Disk 0.9799 GPL Super Grub2 Disk 1.30 GPL XFDISK (Extended FDISK) 0.9.3 beta XOSL (Ext Operating System Loader) v1.1.5 Hard Disk Information & Management AMSET (Maxtor) v4.00 ATA Password Tool v1.1 ATAINF v1.3 Change Definition Utility (for Fujitsu M16xx/ M2915 HDDs) DiskCheck v3.8 DISKINFO v1.02 ESFeat (ExcelStor) v2.30 Feature Tool (IBM/Hitachi) v2.15 SMARTUDM v2.00 UATA100 (Seagate) v3.06 UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPD/MPE/MPF series HDDs) UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPG series HDDs) + Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital) June, 2003 Hard Disk Cloning Software CopyWipe v1.14 EaseUs Disk Copy v2.3 + g4u v2.4 HDClone (Free Edition) v3.9.2 Partimage v0.6.8 beta 1 Partition Saving v3.80 PC INSPECTOR clone-maxx v1.0 Hard Disk Low-Level Editing Software Disk Editor v3.0 DISKMAN4 v4.01 DiskSpy Free Ed.(Personal use only) v2.0 PTS DiskEditor v1.04 ..to be continued The PCUser-2-User pages will teach the use of most of these Tools and Utilities on the Universal Boot Disc. Pls. send Questions to oseun2@gmail.com