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. ...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Solaris ... OpenSolaris
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EasyBCD

EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies multiple award-winning answer to tweaking Windows bootloader. With EasyBCD, almost anything is possible, e.g. to boot a Win7-VHD-image....

Free Personal Windows
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- 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 1 disagrees
PLoP Boot Manager

The PLoP Boot Manager is a small program to boot different operating systems. You can boot the operating systems from harddisk, floppy, CD/DVD or from USB. You can start...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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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
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Grub Customizer

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

Free Open Source Linux
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Grub2Win

Safely dual boot Windows and Linux without touching the Windows MBR. Grub2Win installs to Windows 8, Windows 7, XP, 2000 or Vista. It boots native, open source GNU...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
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EasyUEFI

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

Freemium Windows
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GRUB for DOS

GRUB for DOS is an universal boot loader based on GNU GRUB. It can boot various OSes (some directly, some using their standard boot managers) on different media (HDD...

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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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X
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- Discontinued rEFIt is no longer maintained since 2013.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.
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
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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...

Commercial Windows
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- BootIt is a boot manager. Visual BCD is only able to edit boot configuration data. Guest • Nov 2016
Chameleon Bootloader

Chameleon is a boot loader for Mac OS X. It seems that standard boot loaders for Mac OS X either lack many cool features, or have many cool features, but are...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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bootcfg

Used to edit boot configuration data on Windows systems. Predecessor of bcdedit. Found on Windows XP and prior versions.

Commercial Windows
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Chimera

Chimera is a Hackintosh bootloader that merges the best features from various branches of Chameleon bootloader, into a new branch based on the latest Chameleon 2.0 RC5...

Free Open Source Mac OS X
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Dabid's Multiboot

Dabid's Multiboot is a GUI substitute for bootcfg, popular in France. This tool works as a simplified editor for the boot.ini file (where settings for WinNT...

Free Windows
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- Discontinued