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Emergency Boot CD Update Wizard

If you are registered user of old version, use this Update Wizard to automatically generate ISO file of registered EBCD 1.4 from ISO file of registered EBCD of old version.

Download EBCD 1.4 Update Wizard (14 Mb)

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Apr, 8 of 2013 New version 1.4 released.

New tool added: EBCD Partition Manager: FDISK-like functionality and partition imaging (wanted by 38.2% of our users according to the poll).
Poll has been updated to exclude already implemented features.
Retail price of EBCD was permanently increased by $10. All registered users of old versions can upgrade for free.

Mar, 25 of 2013 Minor update 1.3x released.

This update fixes the following error in registry-related EBCD tools:

Failed to read 'InstallDate' value of '\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion'
key in the SOFTWARE registry hive

Mar, 13 of 2013 Minor update 1.3w released.

This update fixes assertion failure 2161/SZ7BZ in Mount & Boot Center.

Feb, 23 of 2013 Minor update 1.3v released.

This update fixes the following error:

Can't run Mount & Boot Center:
Can't extract boot code from vfat filesystem: boot sector is not valid

Feb, 14 of 2013 Minor update 1.3u released.

This update fixes assertion failures 2109/ET3QA, 2584/CF3NH in Mount & Boot Center (related to updating boot sector of Windows 8 boot partition).

Jan, 2 of 2013 Minor update 1.3t released.

Mount & Boot Center: fixed a bug when changed BCD hive wasn't commited to disk sometimes.

Oct, 31 of 2012 Minor update 1.3s released.

Added support for USB 3.0 host controllers (XHCI).
Newer UDF filesystems on DVD discs should work OK now.

Oct, 23 of 2012 Minor update 1.3r released.

Assertion failure 1419/YQ9UV should be fixed now. It occured when starting Mount & Boot Center on certain hardware configurations.

Sep, 21 of 2012 Major update 1.3q released.

New feature added: Mount & Boot Center. Mount & Boot Center is a tool to reassign and fix missing drive letters (mount points), including disk C:, in Windows installations; a tool to easily edit boot menus (boot.ini of NTLDR and BCD of Bootmgr); a tool to fix boot records and active partition flags. Also Mount & Boot Center can change disk signatures and GUIDs (in sync with MountedDevices key in SYSTEM hive and device descriptors in BCD hive) and resolve conflicts of disk signatures.

Sep, 7 of 2012 Minor update 1.3p released.

Logical volumes of extended partitions with non-empty boot code in EBR are now recognized on MBR disks.

Sep, 5 of 2012 Minor update 1.3n released.

Additional log file Z:\Logs\disks_partitions.xml now contains information about disks and partitions (for EBCD debug purpose).

Aug, 4 of 2012 Minor update 1.3m released.

if_em aka em0 (driver for Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet chip) has been disabled entirely.

Aug, 4 of 2012 Minor update 1.3k released.

Bugfixing release: EBCD should halt no more after the message "em0: Using an MSI interrupt" at boot time.

Jul, 26 of 2012 Minor update 1.3j released.

Added support for GPT disks.

Jul, 2 of 2012 Minor update 1.3i released.

Bugfix in Windows installation detector: After code maintenance in v1.3a EBCD wasn't able to detect Windows installations in \WINNT folder.

Jun, 19 of 2012 Minor update 1.3h released.

New features in the Registry Editor: search and replace.

May, 22 of 2012 Minor update 1.3g released.

Multiple improvements:

Registry Editor now supports selection of registry keys with Ins or GrayPlus/GrayMinus, mass renaming (by wildcard) and mass deletion of selected registry keys.
Improvements in common load/save dialog (error handling of missing files and missing/readonly disks; support for full pathnames in saved file name field).
Registry difference report now contains correct file name for right column; report name in Z:\Logs is substituted automatically.
Password editor now strictly prevalidates and postvalidates SAM registry hive.

May, 20 of 2012 Minor update 1.3f released.

New features in the Registry Editor: key export, import and comparison to external file.

May, 11 of 2012 Minor update 1.3e released.

Small bugfix in error handling and reporting code of Registry Editor.

May, 10 of 2012 Major update 1.3d released.

New feature added: Registry Editor.

May, 7 of 2012 Minor update 1.3c released.

Update wizard should work OK now for 1.2d and earlier versions updated directly from CD.

Mar, 20 of 2012 Minor update 1.3b released.

Bugfixing release: Update wizard should work OK now for EBCD 1.1k and earlier full versions ordered in 2008-2010.

Mar, 3 of 2012 Minor update 1.3a released.

Bugfix in Password Wizard: SAM hives without corresponding LOG file could not be saved (there was file rename error).
Small UI improvements.

Mar, 1 of 2012 New version 1.3 released.

New feature added: Windows Registry Defragmenter.

Feb, 28 of 2012 Minor update 1.2r released.

Fixed a bug in Registry access library: keys with lowercase Unicode characters in range U+0080..U+00FF within first four characters of key name were unreachable when stored in fast hashless index; this caused "Can't get key class ... key does not exist" error message when starting Windows Password Wizard (SAM hive didn't pass prevalidation test).

Feb, 18 of 2012 Minor update 1.2q released.

Two bugs in the Registry access library were fixed:

Wrong size of chunks was chosen on creation/update of large BLOB values.
Update of the first sector in the first bin conflicted with update of the timestamp in the first bin.

Feb, 2 of 2012 Minor update 1.2p released.

Registry access library now correctly updates statistics in registry key nodes (i.e. max length of value name, max length of value data).

Jan, 28 of 2012 Minor update 1.2n released.

Fixed assertion failures in viewer when scrolling empty file.

Jan, 16 of 2012 Bugfixing update 1.2m released.

Multiple assertion failures in editor were fixed (related to tabulation handing).
New viewer now supports arbitrarily large files. Old viewer used to exhaust free memory on large files and reboot EBCD because of SIGKILL delivered to the main process.
Version number 1.2l was skipped to avoid confusion with 1.21.

Dec, 27 of 2011 Minor update 1.2k released.

Halting problem after "em0: Using an MSI Interrupt" was fixed.

Dec, 16 of 2011 Minor update 1.2j released.

Internal rearrangements and enhancements, no user-visible changes.

Nov, 10 of 2011 Minor update 1.2i released.

Fixed-size ramdisk replaced with growing tmpfs. Errors related to out-of-ramdisk-space condition like

Master registry file requires rollback, but the log file 
is either corrupt, or doesn't apply to master file.

Can't run windows password wizard
Failed to read '\SAM' key of SAM database

(especially on old Windows installations with large registry files) should be fixed now.

Nov, 5 of 2011 Minor update 1.2h released.

Fixed the error which could occur when switching to 800x600 screen mode:

failed to map video memory: invalid argument

Oct, 21 of 2011 Important update 1.2g released.

Fixed BSD loader to skip ISA memory hole at 15-16 Mb when loading ramdisk.
Also disabled compression of the kernel and ramdisk and added diagnostic message to EBCD init.
This should fix the halting problem after the following message:

Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0

Also EBCD ISO and Update Wizard are now ZIP-compressed to aid against partial download errors.

Oct, 3 of 2011 Minor update 1.2f released.

Fixed a minor bug/misprint.

Oct, 1 of 2011 Important update 1.2e released.

EBCD has moved to the new kernel (BSD).

Jul, 1 of 2011 Minor update 1.2d released.

This version should fix the following bug:

Can't add device Z:\System\block\sdd
Out of range access detected
 
Object: ECBasicString
File: Src/linux-commander/rtl/strconv/ECStringConversion.cpp
Line: 670

Jul, 1 of 2011 Minor update 1.2c released.

Bugfixing (USB related).

Jun, 30 of 2011 Minor update 1.2b released.

USB support, which was broken in 1.2 and 1.2a, now works as expected.

Jun, 7 of 2011 Minor update 1.2a released.

Now EBCD can automatically detect VESA video modes supported by video card and monitor. This should ultimately fix trashed screen problems after bootup. Default choice of video mode still can be overriden by user, but now all video modes unsupported by BIOS are hidden from the menu.

May, 17 of 2011 New version 1.2 released.

All system components (kernel, libc, cross-compiler, ntfs driver, GUI library) were updated to the latest versions. This is a starting point for new features, which will be added in subsequent updates, when stability of the new environment is confirmed.

February, 16 of 2009 Minor update 1.1k released.

Fixed a bug in Password Wizard which produced "out of range access" error in Level 2 Registry component in some rare cases when growth of registry file was required to complete password change operation.

January, 20 of 2009 Minor update 1.1j released.

Fixed a bug in Password Wizard which forced skipping of local disks with Windows installations if SOFTWARE registry hive was stored without a log.

January, 1 of 2009 Minor update 1.1i released.

Added detailed descriptions why local disks are skipped in Password Wizard. Users who get "There are no Microsoft Windows installations on this PC" error in Password Wizard are encouraged to send detailed bug reports.

December, 9 of 2008 Minor update 1.1h released.

Order ID added to activation key. Activation keys for 1.1h+ versions will not be applicable to older versions; activation keys for older version will be applicable to 1.1h+ versions.

October, 5 of 2008 Minor update 1.1g released.

String implementation changed to more reliable to fix possible race condition
Improved assertion handling to avoid dependency on string class
Added disclaimer message for Password Wizard
Fixed too large font appearance under Vista with nondefault DPI, on the website also

August, 5 of 2008 Minor update 1.1f released.

Fixed assertion error in ECNtUser.cpp (password wizard, XP SP3 and Vista)
Added more video modes (for users of some laptops)

July, 31 of 2008 Minor update 1.1e released.

More verbose diagnostics for unknown hash format errors

July, 30 of 2008 Minor update 1.1d released.

Added HTML help to CD image
Fixed out-of-range access error in registry library which occured when reading empty value of type REG_MULTI_SZ

July, 29 of 2008 Minor update 1.1c released.

1.1c: Minor bugfix in server side EBCD ISO generator of registered versions
1.1b: Registration data for EBCD now can include Unicode characters
1.1a: More verbose diagnostics for out-of-range exception errors

July, 20 of 2008 New version 1.1 released.

New function added: Windows Password Wizard.

May, 28 of 2008 Initial version 1.0 released.