WinUSB Maker Tool Alternatives
WinUSB Maker Tool is described as 'This is a small utility tool that will help you format and create bootable flash drives for Windows 7/8. It can be useful if you want to create installation media from bootable ISOs and if you want to install Windows7/8 on a system that doesn't have a CD-ROM device installed' and is a Bootable USB Creator in the CD/DVD Tools category. There are more than 10 alternatives to WinUSB Maker Tool for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, PortableApps.com, Mac and Wine. The best alternative is Rufus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinUSB Maker Tool are Ventoy (Free, Open Source), UNetbootin (Free, Open Source), YUMI (Free, Open Source) and MultiBootUSB (Free, Open Source).
- Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
- Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- UNetbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) is a cross-platform utility that can load Linux and other distributions to a partition or USB drive.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- PortableApps.com
- YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer), is the successor to our MultibootISOs. It can be used to create a Multiboot Bootable USB Flash Drive containing multiple operating systems, antivirus utilities, disc cloning, diagnostic tools, and more.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- Wine
- WineBottler
- MultiBootUSB is a software to create multi boot live Linux on a removable media i.e USB disk. It is similar to UNetbootin but many distros can be installed, provided you have enough space on the disk.
Discontinued
The project seems no longer developed and the official website is no longer available. Last version, 9.2.0, released in April 2018, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
- LiLi USB Creator is a free software for Windows that allows you to create a bootable Live USB key with a Linux on it.
Discontinued
The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 2.9.4, released in September 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website. The project has officially been abandonned on December, 22nd 2020 (announcement on their blog).
- WoeUSB is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. It is a fork of Congelli501 s WinUSB.
- WinSetupFromUSB is a Windows program, which prepares multiboot USB flash or fixed disk to install any Windows versions since 2000/XP, boot various Linux and *BSD flavors, as well as many Windows, Linux, DOS based and other utilities. Since version 1.
- Optical drives are rapidly disappearing from our computers of all kinds, and consequently installing operating systems from USB flash disks is becoming increasingly popular.
Discontinued
Last update was in 2016.
- MultiSystem is an awesome Linux tool for creating multiboot USB drives, developed by François Fabre (http://liveusb.info/dotclear/).