Startup 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

YUMI

YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer), is the successor to MultibootISOs. It can be used to create a Multiboot USB Flash Drive containing multiple operating systems, antivirus utilities, disc cloning, diagnostic tools, and more. Contrary to MultiBootISO's which used grub to boot ISO files directly from USB, YUMI uses syslinux to boot extracted distributions stored on the USB device, and reverts to using grub to Boot Multiple ISO files from USB, if necessary.

Features:

• Create Multiboot USB
• Multiboot USB
• Multi boot
• Can install to internal hard drives/ssds
• Create bootable USB
• Multi-windows
• Persistent Storage
• UEFI Support

Universal USB Installer

Universal USB Installer is a Live Linux USB Creator that allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive. The Universal USB Installer is easy to use. Simply choose a Live Linux Distribution, the ISO file, your Flash Drive and, Click Install. Other features include; Persistence (if available), and the ability to fat32 format the flash drive (recommended) to ensure a clean install.

Features:

• Create bootable USB
• Multiple languages
• No need to format
• Persistent Linux
• Portable
• Portable Linux

AIO Boot

AIO Boot possesses unique, advanced and user-friendly features. Here is one of the many great features of AIO Boot. - Support boots in both UEFI and Legacy BIOS modes. --- UEFI mode: Grub2, Clover and rEFInd. --- Legacy mode: Grub2, Grub4Dos, Clover, Enoch Chameleon and Syslinux. --- You can choose between Grub2 and Grub4Dos as the default boot loader. Only use Grub4Dos if your computer is not compatible with Grub2. - Supports hard drive, external hard drive and USB, including SDcard.

Features:

• Create bootable USB
• Create Multiboot USB

DriveDroid

DriveDroid allows you to boot your PC from ISO/IMG files stored on your phone. This is ideal for trying Linux distributions or always having a rescue-system on the go... without the need to burn different CDs or USB pendrives. DriveDroid also includes a convenient download menu where you can download USB-images of a number of operating systems from your phone (like Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Arch Linux). Around 35 different systems are available at this moment.

Features:

• Download ISO Images
• Root required
• Create bootable CD
• Create bootable USB
• Multiboot USB

Ventoy

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. You can copy many iso files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them (screenshot). Both Legacy BIOS and UEFI are supported in the same way. 200+ ISO files are tested (list).

Features:

• Create bootable USB
• Create Multiboot USB
• Multi boot
• Multi-windows
• Multiboot USB
• Persistent Storage
• UEFI Support

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.

iSeePassword WizISO

Edit Your ISO File with 5 Core Functions: • Burn: Make a bootable USB or DVD/CD with ISO file easily! • Extract: Directly Open and extract everything from an ISO file to your computer. • Create: Abilty to create ISO file from files, folders, program, disks and partitions, back up your data with ISO. • Edit: Allowed to edit a bootable ISO file, such as add file, export, rename or delete, then save as a new bootable ISO file without getting errors.

Features:

• Create BIOS bootable drive
• Create UEFI bootable drive
• MBR
• UEFI Support
• Create bootable USB
• Mac Apps
• Windows 10