A new version of the popular recovery CD is now available for download

Dec 20, 2013 15:22 GMT  ·  By

Ultimate Boot CD 5.2.8, a recovery LiveCD that incorporates a lot of very powerful tools, is now available for download.

The Ultimate Boot CD can be used in a lot of ways – to test the RAM memory, the CPU, to partition the hard drive, or for simple PC maintenance.

Highlights of Ultimate Boot CD 5.2.8:

• "/boot/syslinux/chain.c32" and "hdt.c32" have been updated from syslinux V4.07; • 7za.exe (9.20.1) has been reverted back to p7zip.exe (4.65) to support ZIP and 7Z archive formats in DOSAPPS. UBCD FreeDOS version updated to V1.51; • Memtest86 has been added to V4.3.6; • ASTRA has been updated to V6.12; • Darik's Boot and Nuke have been updated to version 2.2.8; • CPUStress has been updated to V2.3.7 (13 Dec 2013).

More details about this release can be found in the official announcement. Download Ultimate Boot CD 5.2.8 right now from Softpedia.