ubcd4win and its portable freeware

[teobromina]

I would like to draw your attention to Ultra Boot CD For Windows (in short UBCD4Win)

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

This software is basically a way to build a shortened and 'portable' version of Windows XP - SP2, which can run from a CD or, by means of PEtoUSB

http://gocoding.com/page.php?al=petousb ,

from an USB pendrive.

But it is more than this, because the 'distribution' of UBCD4Win itself contains a lot of portable freeware, much of them that we already know here in our TPFC site, but some other that sounds new, at least to me. All oriented to recovery of your installed Windows system by means of a 'live' Windows system (that is: with your accustomed environement).

I have included, in the same UBCD4Win disk, the very best of my portable software, along with the programs brought in the UBCD4Win 'distro', and the result is wonderful. You do not need to care anymore for any program writting in the registry, because no traces are alive when you restart your computer (all the 'live' system runs in the RAM).

I made still a more 'risky' trial, and succeed, making the USB a multiboot device, able to run also several Linux or Windows at will, booting from the pendrive. But this can be another story ...

[teobromina]

Just have a look into the list of tools included as a part of the UBCD4Win 'distro':

http://www.ubcd4win.com/contents.htm

Regards.

*JT.

[dennis123123]

The topic title is misleading... ubcd4win is a program to create a custom windows preinstallation environment which runs from a cd/usb. this is NOT the same as "Windows XP SP2 from your USB pendrive"

If you want a *REAL* xp sp2 from usb, see Dietmar and other's wonderful work over at http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php? ... ntry114579

[M@tty]

UBCD4Win has it's uses, most of them repair and recovery related, but as dennis quite rightly points out, the title is a little mis-leading.

For those really interested, check out http://www.winusb.de/index_en.html, it will kill your USB sticks though! Only suitable for USB Hard drives.

[teobromina]

Thanks dennis and M@tty for your precision. I have edited the title of the thread to better define the subject I wanted to bring. Now it is: "ubcd4win and its portable freeware".

And thanks for your indications and links, very useful for my purposes.

I am looking for a solution that I can use for maintenance and for daily job with the computer. A sort of panacea.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panacea )

At present, with just a 4Gb USB pendrive, I can run, in a Windows environment, all my portable freeware collection; or with a syslinux booting menu, with the same pendrive I can boot the computer to:
-Freedos (for low level disk repair operations),
-Parted Magic (to run Partimage),
-Mint Linux (I can enjoy this master piece of live Linux and install Wine after boot to run all my portable freeware),
-UBCD4Win (and use its maintenance portable software collection).
And still, there is about 1Gb free for my data.

*JT.

[teobromina]

I have updated my page including a tutorial about a method to build a multiboot system including UBCD4Win and several other OSs, like Freedos, Parted Magic, Mint Live Linux and Slax Live Linux in an USB drive.:

http://www.telefonica.net/web2/ttk/_iso.htm#UBCD4Win

You can bring with you, in a pendrive, your data, your OSs and portable freeware to run on the OSs and to operate with your data.

Is it not total portability?

Regards.

*JT.