Apps with 'Create bootable Image' feature

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  1. Rufus icon
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    Formats USB drives to various file systems and creates bootable USBs from ISOs. Supports MS-DOS/FreeDOS bootable sticks and offers BIOS or UEFI options.

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    4.6
    Excellent90 reviews
  2. balenaEtcher icon
     655 likes

    Ideal for creating bootable USBs and SD cards, ensuring safe, cross-platform use. Open-source, lightweight, and portable with a user-friendly interface.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    3.5
    Good71 reviews
  3. macUSB icon
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    The easiest way to create legacy macOS bootable drives on modern Macs. Revive old Intel Macs using your Apple Silicon machine — no terminal knowledge required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  4. EasyUEFI icon
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    EasyUEFI owns comprehensive EFI/UEFI boot option management functions, such as create, delete, edit, clean up, backup and restore EFI/UEFI boot options, specifies an one-time boot entry for the next restart, or change EFI/UEFI boot order, all these operations done under Windows...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Easily create bootable media on USBs, CDs, and DVDs with this Windows tool. Features a three-step process, virtual drive mounting, and multi-language support.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Optical drives are rapidly disappearing from our computers of all kinds, and consequently installing operating systems from USB flash disks is becoming increasingly popular. ISO images of the ROSA Linux distribution were originally intended for burning to DVD disks, but they can...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Active@ Kill Disk is disk eraser software for secure formatting of hard drives without any possibility of following data recovery.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    A user-friendly, lightweight TUI wrapper for the dd command written in Rust that performs easy disk imaging and ISO burning with only a single command with graphs and rich confirmation dialogs.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Homebrew
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