Today, I’m going to list down my favorite and best software to create bootable usb flash drive the easy way it could be. These tools are very useful if you want to create an installation media from a bootable ISOs. It is also helpful if the computer system unit you are going to use does not have a CD or DVD ROM device installed.
1. Rufus
1. Rufus
Rufus which is developed by Akeo (not real name) is a tiny and portable program that allows everyone to create bootable usb flash drive for Windows and Linux platform. Moreover, it has a features that check the USB device for bad blocks. If you cannot format your usb flash drive using the standard format facility of windows or if you just want to format it under NTFS file system, Rufus can do it.
Rufus Main Graphical User Interface |
Windows USB/DVD Download Tool which is developed by Microsoft is a tool that will help you format and create bootable USB flash drive for your Windows 7 and Windows 8-8.1 operating systems.
Windows USB/DVD Download Tool Main Graphical User Interface |
Universal USB Installer or UUI is a Live Linux USB Creator developed to format and create bootable USB flash drive for a several list of Linux Distributions (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Fedora) and non-Linux distributions such as Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating system.
4. UNetbootin
UNetbootin is a simple program which allows you to format and create a bootable USB flash drive for both Windows and Linux Operating systems without burning a CD/DVD. Unlike the other mentioned program, if you do not have yet the image or ISO file on your hard drive, UNetbootin can download it for you by just selecting the right distribution you wanted to use.
UNetbootin Main Graphical User Interface |
Win32DiskImager is a program designed to write a raw disk image to a removable device or backup a removable device to a raw image file.
Win32 Disk Imager Main Graphical User Interface |
How about you, what is your favorite and best Software to create bootable USB Flash Drive? Feel free to drop any comments.
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