dd, that stands for ‘data duplicator’, is a command-line utility for Unix mainly used for copying and converting data.
Rufus AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Disk Imaging Tools
The best Disk Imaging alternative to Rufus is dd, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Rufus and 11 are Disk Imaging Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Disk Imaging Tool alternatives to Rufus are Win32 Disk Imager, USBImager, Disk Utility and Impression (GTK).
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42 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.
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- 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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37 Disk Utility alternativesDisk Utility is the name of a utility created by Apple for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X. These tasks include:
Flash disk images onto your drives with ease. Select an image, insert your drive, and you're good to go!
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20 USB Image Tool alternativesUSB Image Tool can create images of USB flash drives and MP3 players, that are mounted as USB drives. It allows you switch between images with different music styles on your MP3 Player or to make an exact backup image of your USB Stick.
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
ImageUSB 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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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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It's the only one that seems to be able to create BSD flash drives