balenaEtcher is a free and open-source image burner with support for Windows, macOS 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.
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gitbreaker222
Comment • almost 4 years ago • 5 users agree • 0 replies
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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• Positive comment • almost 5 years ago • 4 users agree • 1 reply
Etcher is really one of the best tools for writting iso images on usb stick ! It detect everything and writte a lot of files. It format all the usb stick and take all the space, not only a partition. No more error!
Ranogard
etcher uses electron (for no justifiable reason), which is known to use a lot of RAM. Hence it's not efficient.
Reply written about 1 year ago
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• Negative comment • over 2 years ago • 8 users agree and 5 don't • 0 replies
This program is garbage, not only did it destroy my 32GB Micro SD card it destroyed my card reader too.
I was using it to make an image and it stated ETA 35 minutes, then the program completely froze. I had to reset my PC and when my PC rebooted, the Micro SD card could no longer be read and my Card reader could no longer read any SD or Micro SD Cards.
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• Negative comment • almost 2 years ago • 3 users agree • 0 replies
you will regret using this software...it is worst software i ever use ... if you want to test it plz go ahead and use it 1 time i am sure you will agree with me ...i am disappoint from other user who give wrong review about this software.... 1.=> its actual estimate time is more then it shown on screen..... 2.=> even validation took nearly 30min after completion the process.. 3.=> there are many software in market whose efficiency and performance is much better then this software and they are also free and small in size..
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zl3tkradio
Comment • over 1 year ago • 3 users agree • 0 replies
Ethcher does indeed 'appear' to brick USB sticks running on Win platforms, but that's only because it uses the 'Persistent Partition' protocol. Only the part of the drive needed for saving the .iso file is used and the remainder of the drive suddenly doesn't need to exist, so it effectively doesn't exist and the disk looks full ... hence you see only ~ 1.8 GB. This sudden loss of access to your stick can be overcome by re-partitioning the stick using the built-in Windows Disk Management Utility - simply format the apparently dead drive as a single (large) partition and all is well again. But it's annoying and time consuming, so as recommended - use instead Rufus with Win, which gives the option of either persistent partitioning or the much more user-friendly normal disk access. Rufus is not as fast as Etcher, however the log function makes it way more interesting to watch it working.
top UX/UI design. I can do, what I want to do, without the hassle finding out how to do it right.
Etcher is really one of the best tools for writting iso images on usb stick ! It detect everything and writte a lot of files. It format all the usb stick and take all the space, not only a partition.
No more error!
etcher uses electron (for no justifiable reason), which is known to use a lot of RAM. Hence it's not efficient.
Reply written about 1 year ago
This program is garbage, not only did it destroy my 32GB Micro SD card it destroyed my card reader too.
I was using it to make an image and it stated ETA 35 minutes, then the program completely froze. I had to reset my PC and when my PC rebooted, the Micro SD card could no longer be read and my Card reader could no longer read any SD or Micro SD Cards.
you will regret using this software...it is worst software i ever use ... if you want to test it plz go ahead and use it 1 time i am sure you will agree with me ...i am disappoint from other user who give wrong review about this software....
1.=> its actual estimate time is more then it shown on screen.....
2.=> even validation took nearly 30min after completion the process..
3.=> there are many software in market whose efficiency and performance is much better then this software and they are also free and small in size..
Ethcher does indeed 'appear' to brick USB sticks running on Win platforms, but that's only because it uses the 'Persistent Partition' protocol. Only the part of the drive needed for saving the .iso file is used and the remainder of the drive suddenly doesn't need to exist, so it effectively doesn't exist and the disk looks full ... hence you see only ~ 1.8 GB. This sudden loss of access to your stick can be overcome by re-partitioning the stick using the built-in Windows Disk Management Utility - simply format the apparently dead drive as a single (large) partition and all is well again. But it's annoying and time consuming, so as recommended - use instead Rufus with Win, which gives the option of either persistent partitioning or the much more user-friendly normal disk access. Rufus is not as fast as Etcher, however the log function makes it way more interesting to watch it working.