Alternatives to Visual BCD Editor for all platforms with any license

GRUB

GNU GRUB is a multiboot boot loader. It was derived from GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, which was originally designed and implemented by Erich Stefan Boleyn. ...
- GRUB does not allow for editing of the BCD store Guest • May 2020
- VBCDEdit is for EDITING of BCD storage for using it by WinLoader. While this tool doesn't touch this storage at all. Guest • Dec 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Solaris ... OpenSolaris
Customizable Text-based USB to NTFS Zero configuration Add a feature

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EasyBCD

Boot utility to easily tweak your Windows boot configuration and setup multi-boot systems.
- Visual BCD Editor is a complete BCD Editor. EasyBCD is able to edit only a small portion of BCD. Guest • Nov 2016 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees
Free Personal Windows
Support for Android Things MBR Operating system Add a feature

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Bootice

Bootice - utility to modify or backup/restore your MBR (Master Boot Record) or PBR (Partition Boot Record). With Bootice, you can easily change your MBR/PBR to...

Free Windows
Command line MBR Portable Add a feature

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Grub Customizer

Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure the GRUB2/BURG settings and menuentries.

Free Open Source Linux
Configurable MBR UEFI Support Add a feature

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EasyUEFI

Manage EFI/UEFI Boot Options & Manage EFI System Partitions & Fix EFI/UEFI Boot Issues.

Freemium Windows
UEFI Support Add a feature

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rEFIt

rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. You can use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot...
- Discontinued
  rEFIt is no longer maintained since 2013. The author suggested to check out http://alternativeto.net/software/refind/ , a fork of the original program.
Free Open Source Mac
No features added Add a feature

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BootIt Bare Metal

BootIt Bare Metal is a boot manager and partition manager software utility. Whither you want to do non-destructive repartitioning or boot multiple operating systems...
- Bare Metal is far more than BCDEditor. Only requires electricity to run it. Not .NET or other bs. Guest • Jun 2019
- BootIt is a boot manager. Visual BCD is only able to edit boot configuration data. Guest • Nov 2016 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Commercial Windows
Multi boot Add a feature

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OSL2000 Boot Manager

OSL2000 is an advanced multi boot manager. Using OSL2000 boot manager, you can directly install, boot and manage upto 100 independent OSs in your computer.

Commercial Windows
No features added Add a feature

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DualBootPRO

A boot editor for the Windows 7/Vista bootloader. Takes the pain out of BCDEDIT. The logical and easy to use DualBootPRO interface makes it easy for both the novice...
- DualBootPro can edit only a small part of BCD. Guest • Nov 2016
Commercial Windows
No features added Add a feature

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BellaVista

Many system developers complain about repetitive settings of their testing Windows workstations to make them usable for testing software. Number of dialogs you need to...
- BellaVista can edit only small part of BCD. Guest • Nov 2016
Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

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