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balenaEtcher

Burn images to SD cards & USB drives, safe & easy. Created by balena.io

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balenaEtcher is a free and open-source image burner with support for Windows, OS X and GNU/Linux. It makes USB and SD card image burning as simple and fast as possible.

FEATURES

Validated Burning - No more writing images on corrupted cards and wondering why your device isn't booting.
Hard Drive Friendly - Makes drive selection obvious to avoid wiping your entire hard-drive
Beautiful Interface - Who said burning SD cards has to be an eyesore.
Open Source - Made with JS, HTML, node.js and Electron. Dive in and contribute!
Cross Platform - Works for everyone, no more complicated install instructions.... More Info »

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Bootable USB & ISO Utilities, Favorites, Want to reinstall Windows or install Linux on your computer? Try these tools., Windows, and Free & Open-Source

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Features

Beginner friendly Validated Burning Create bootable USB Creating Bootable USB Electron based Gui Convert installation CD/DVD to USB Write ISO to SD card Material design Persistent Storage Portable Support for S.M.A.R.T. data User friendly Add a feature

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bootable-media flash-drive iso-to-usb live-usb usb-install

balenaEtcher was added by Ugotsta in Apr 2016 and the latest update was made in Sep 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Sep 2019. It's possible to update the information on balenaEtcher or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Comment by gitbreaker222

about balenaEtcher · Mar 2017 · Helpful Not helpful 3 Helpful Report as spam

top UX/UI design. I can do, what I want to do, without the hassle finding out how to do it right.

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Comment by sarakos

about balenaEtcher · Aug 2018 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

I like :)

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Could not detect removable drive

Comment by TechPython

about balenaEtcher · Jan 2017 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

Was not able to boot into Windows 7 installation.
Burned a Windows ISO to USB but wasn't able to detect the bootable device on multiple machines. Maybe my USB was incompatible, but do not take my word for it.

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alexandrosmarinos · Jan 2017

Etcher writes the image to the disk, like dd does. Windows images need post-processing and therefore cannot be made bootable by Etcher or any other image writer. Etcher documentation suggests you use microsoft's dedicated tool for the job.

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Comment by Guest

about balenaEtcher · Mar 2017 · Report as spam

I like so much. It's the better burner for removable drive.

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Comment by alexprange

about balenaEtcher · Mar 2019 · Helpful Not helpful -3 Helpful Report as spam

FOSS. Built on electron so super fast and super lightweight. Great tool

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Comment by ihatetoregister

about balenaEtcher · Nov 2017 · Helpful Not helpful -9 Helpful Report as spam

Why on earth would you implement a tool like this in javascript/html? No, ill stick to dd...

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antemuras · Jan 2018

I wonder if the day will come when people stop discriminating against JS...

rado84 · May 2018

Who cares what languages are used to write the program, if it works? ;)