Ultimate Boot CD

You should be able to tell from the BIOS id, when the machine boots, or by going into the BIOS and listing the IDE devices found.

For example, Western Digital hard drives id usually begins with "WDxxxxxxxx" and so on.

As with most computer problems, as much detail about the problem will help us find a solution. When you say "dead" do you mean it will not turn on? Or does it power up with error messages? If its dead in terms of not powering on at al, its likely to be a hardware fault. The first palce to ...

Bumpy bump!

Theres a 2.1 version now including bug fixes, I've trialed it on a few machines, seems to be ok.

Hello, thank you for the ultimate boot cd, it has been rather useful to me and friends in the past, and saves me carrying lots of discs 8) Just noticed that g4u is on version 2.0 qouted from the site.... The floppy and CDROM version still share the same codebase - there's still a limit of 2.88MB now...