dd, that stands for ‘data duplicator’, is a command-line utility for Unix mainly used for copying and converting data.
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The best Disk Imaging alternative to balenaEtcher is dd, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to balenaEtcher and nine of them are Disk Imaging Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Disk Imaging Tool alternatives to balenaEtcher are Win32 Disk Imager, USBImager, ImageUSB and Impression (GTK).
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41 dd alternatives
49 Win32 Disk Imager alternativesA utility that can write a raw backup image of your hard drive to a removable device or vice versa.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
23 USBImager alternativesUSBImager is a really really simple GUI application that writes compressed disk images to USB drives and creates backups.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Raspberry Pi
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10 ImageUSB alternativesImageUSB is a free tool for writing an image to multiple USB Flash Drives (or reading image from an UFD).
ImageUSB is designed for use with OSForensics.
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54 Impression (GTK) alternativesFlash disk images onto your drives with ease. Select an image, insert your drive, and you're good to go!
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Batch ISO Creator is a lightweight Windows utility that turns multiple folders into ISO images in a single click —no command line, no scripts, no bloat.
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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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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Mac
- Linux
- Arch Linux
- Nix Package Manager
- Homebrew
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A good command-line alternative that comes with Unix-based operating systems. It's what I use on my MacBook to burn Linux ISO images on my USB drive.