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Many operations require you to “unmount” your hard drive or partition such as: Fixing, Optimizing, Defragmenting, Partitioning, Cloning and Data Recovery. There are many great tools to do these functions, but to use them you either need a second operating system installed or a bunch of bootable discs. To make your life easier I have compiled a bootable image which contains as many of these tools as possible. This image can be burnt to a DVD or cloned to a iPod/flash USB stick/hard drive/partition; the resulting product will then be bootable.

What’s included?
Carbon Copy Cloner 3.3 d
Clone X 3.3.0 d
CopyCatX 4.0
Data Rescue 3.0.1 107 d
Disk Utility 11.1 252.4
DiskWarrior 4.2 909 d
Drive Genius 2.2.1 2200.27.79 d
FileSalvage 7.0 d
Firmware Password Utility 1.4.3 1
iDefrag 1.7.2 227 d
iPartition 3.2.0 161 d
MacForensicsLab 2.5.4 d
MemTest 4.22
OfficeSalvage 6.1.5
Preview 4.2 469.5
RescuePRO 3.3.0.0 3.3
SpeedTools 2.8.1 2.4.3 d
Startup Disk 1.4 56
TechTool Pro 5.0.6 4594 d
Terminal 2.0.2 240.2
TestDisk 6.11.3
TextMate 1.5.9 1510 d
VolumeWorks 1.5

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Branches:
The latest bootable image Apple released to developers doesn’t seem to boot their old machines anymore. Because of that I’m now making two different branches of BUI. One for old macs(2.2.x) and one for new(2.3.x) . I’ve made a chart to help you find the image(s) that’s right for you:
‘Old macs’ are ones with the PowerPC(PPC) architecture.
The ‘Lite’ version only has: Carbon Copy Cloner, CopyCatX, Data Rescue, Disk Utility, DiskWarrior, DriveGenius, FileSalvage, Firmware Password Utility, iDefrag, iPartition, MemTest, TechTool Pro and the Terminal.

COMMENTS:
TechTool Pro will ask you to the TechTool Protection when it first loads; just hit cancel.

Checksums: I get different md5’s every time I unarchive these so if your final image isn’t the same don’t sweat it. All the zip’s should be accurate though.Mokele-mbembe.zip = ba0ea4e88cbf85189f865aa0b51a1a37
BUI 2.3.0.dmg = 34f98a1f00ae628d03e6e8f900da287b

Why share with those who don’t care?
I have gotten nothing but trouble from the ignorant jerks at the pirate bay. I’m not naive enough to tell people not to share this somewhere–it’s warez, do as you please–but the people at the pirate bay aren’t worth the work I put into it.

The new release is INTEL-ONLY. If you want support for PPC-based Macs download BUI 2.2.1.