Install Disk Creator Alternatives

Rufus

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

Features:

• Create bootable USB
• Lightweight
• Windows To Go
• Burn iso
• Portable
• Bad Blocks checking
• Create BIOS bootable drive
• Create bootable Image
• Create UEFI bootable drive
• Install DOS to USB
• GNU/linux-libre
• Write ISO to SD card
• Optimal performance
• Support for UDF extension
• UEFI Support
• USB to FAT
• USB to NTFS
• USB to UDF

UNetbootin

UNetbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) is a cross-platform utility that can create Live USB systems and can load a variety of system utilities or install various Linux distributions and other operating systems without a CD.

Features:

• Create bootable USB
• Automatic downloading
• Download ISO Images
• Linux
• Burn iso
• Multiboot USB
• Persistent Linux
• Portable
• Portable Linux
• Windows To Go

Clonezilla

Clonezilla is a free software disaster recovery, disk cloning and deployment solution. You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost®. The problem with these kind of software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting.

Features:

• Disk Cloning
• Backup
• Fast cloning
• Live booting from usb
• Portable
• PXE
• Restore multicast
• Disk Cloning
• Disk Imaging
• Linux-based

dd

dd, that stands for ‘data duplicator’, is a command-line utility for Unix mainly used for copying and converting data. This tool can be used for: • Backing up and restoring an entire hard drive or a partition. • Copy regions of raw device files like backing up MBR (master boot record). • Converting data formats like ASCII to EBCDIC. • Converting lowercase to uppercase and vice versa. • Creating files with fixed size.

Features:

• Command line
• Utilities that Delete Files
• Burn iso
• Command line interface
• Create image
• Write ISO to SD card

DiskMaker X

DiskMaker X (formerly Lion DiskMaker) is an application built with AppleScript that you can use with many versions of OS X/macOS to build a bootable drive from OS X/macOS installer program (the one you download from the App Store). As soon as you launch the application, it tries to find the OS X Install program with Spotlight. Then, it proposes to build a bootable install disk and make it look as nice as possible.

WinUSB - multiboot

There are different ways to create a multiple Windows bootable USB stick. But most of them force you to perform mandatory disk formatting or scare with incomprehensible interfaces with many options.

Features:

• Create UEFI bootable drive
• Multiboot USB

USB Mountr

android_usb_msd - Better and open source replacement for DriveDroid A helper application to set the Mass Storage Device gadget up in Android kernels How it works Android kernels still include a USB MSD component in their device gadget nowadays, though it is mostly unused since Android started using MTP. Some OEM ROMs still use it to provide a drivers installation "disc", but it is otherwise useless.