

SARDU is described as '(short for Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility) creates a multiboot all-in-one USB drive, CD or DVD for free (personal and non commercial use). Hard disks, external hard disks and all removable media are supported' and is a bootable usb creator in the cd/dvd tools category. There are more than 25 alternatives to SARDU for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and PortableApps.com apps. The best SARDU alternative is Rufus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SARDU are Ventoy, balenaEtcher, UNetbootin and YUMI exFAT.


Piw is a software to create bootable media i.e USB disk. It is similar to UNetbootin or Rufus.



Utility QemuBootTester, at the base QEMU, from Ameda Buddha, with support for x86 / x64 UEFI mode. All possibilities, in general, are visible on the screen.

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.
