The USB drive is Easy to create, erase and reuse. Can install multiple OS on same USB at a time. Faster booting and installation speed. Portable and easy to handle.
[Please Read: How To Make A USB Drive Bootable To Install Windows 10 On BIOS & UEFI Motherboards]
1. Rufus
Rufus is simple and easy to use. It automatically detects your USB drive. The bootable USB drive can be created for newer hardware supporting UEFI or for legacy BIOS. You only have to select proper options from the list. Rufus is available for Windows, macOS and Linux.
💧 Download Rufus
2. Ventoy
This is real competition to Rufus. Yes. It takes less than 10 seconds to create a bootable USB drive from ISO. The size of the ISO does not matter at all. That is because, Ventoy do not extract the ISO while making the USB bootable. You have to just copy and paste the ISO as it is on the USB drive. It works differently than all other bootable USB creators.
First connect your USB drive to computer. The Ventoy will detect the drive. Now click on installation button. This will format the USB drive and all data will be wiped. It does not ask you to choose the ISO file because, you have to copy the ISO to USB manually. Just copy the ISO as it is.
You can copy multiple ISO files on the drive. And Ventoy allow you to install multiple operating systems.
Very fast, very easy. The USB drive can be used as general storage medium even though it is bootable and this does not affect the bootable feature.
💧 Download Ventoy
3. RMPrepUSB
It's all-in-one tool. Features come with the cluttered interface. RMPrepUBS is useful for creating multi boot USB drive. It can create multiple bootable partitions on single USB drive. Multiple ISO of the different OS or save user files along with the side of the bootable USB.
The special feature of RMPrepUSB is you can create a partition in USB drive just like you do on your hard disk making it more useful for saving files plus using the same drive as a separate folder for storing files.
- This keeps your files separate from the operating system files
4. Universal USB Installer
Specialized tool for creating bootable live Linux OS. Predefined list of most of the Linux distributions available. You can create a live antivirus rescue disk using Universal USB installer.
The most important use of the Universal USB Installer is, for making Windows 7 ISO bootable. Even though, most other installers fail to support Windows 7, this is best in making Windows 7 ISO bootable from USB.
💧 Download Universal USB Installer
You can download the ISO of your favorite OS. YUMI has a large collection of free OS based on Linux and other Free OS projects. Just select what you want and YUMI will give you the direct download link for it.
The interface is quite easy to use and useful.
💧 Download YUMI
Create a bootable USB for any Linux distribution. If you are not using Windows as your host operating system, then UNetbootin is an option to go for. UNetbootin is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
💧 Download UNetbootin
LiLi is one more software used to make bootable USB. The special feature called built-in Vitalization allows users to run the installed Linux operating system without restarting the Windows which are an exclusive feature of LiLi.
If you are concerned only about Linux you must go for this.
💧Download LiLi Creator
This is also a tool for those who want to install multiple operating systems on one USB device.
It combines multiple tools in ISO image making it more useful than just a USB creating tool. XBoot can create ISO image from files and then write these files to the USB drive for booting or installation.
💧 Download XBoot here
There are only basic buttons and only one task to do. Just create a bootable USB drive to install or try new operating systems. I wonder how it is so small and light. It is just 160 KB in size.
💧 Download Windows Bootable Image Creator
➤ Windows official USB creation tool is an official tool to create a bootable USB drive to install downloaded Windows 7 and Windows 8 ISO images without burning it to traditional discs.
➤ FlashBoot is a bit tool having around 24 MB in download size. It has more options than any other tool but is actually a paid tool, but anyone can use it for free.
➤ The Etcher is an excellent tool for macOS users
⏩ 'WinSetup From USB' is for installing multiple OS in one USB drive.
⏩ 'RMPrep USB' is for making the partition in USB drive along with Windows.
⏩ If you want to clone a complete partition with OS 'WinUSB Maker' is the best choice.
Which tool do you think is the best? Do you have any other good tool to list?
4. YUMI
Yumi, short for Your Universal Multiboot Installer. YUMI allows you to prepare the bootable USB drive multiple operating systems in one USB drive without formatting it.
You can download the ISO of your favorite OS. YUMI has a large collection of free OS based on Linux and other Free OS projects. Just select what you want and YUMI will give you the direct download link for it.
The interface is quite easy to use and useful.
💧 Download YUMI
5. UNetbootin
Create a bootable USB for any Linux distribution. If you are not using Windows as your host operating system, then UNetbootin is an option to go for. UNetbootin is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
💧 Download UNetbootin
6. Linux Live USB Creator (LiLi)
LiLi is one more software used to make bootable USB. The special feature called built-in Vitalization allows users to run the installed Linux operating system without restarting the Windows which are an exclusive feature of LiLi.
If you are concerned only about Linux you must go for this.
💧Download LiLi Creator
7. WinSetUp From USB
This is also a tool for those who want to install multiple operating systems on one USB device.
- WinSetup From USB let you install Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 10, any Linux distribution.
- When you prepare the USB drive using ‘WinSetup From USB’ you will be presented with the list of operating systems installed on the thumb drive and select the preferred operating system to boot from.
- Though the interface is simple, non-expert users may find it difficult to use.
8. XBoot
This is more than just a bootable USB maker. You can create a rescue CD or a disk having multiple operating systems or tools like antivirus rescue CD.It combines multiple tools in ISO image making it more useful than just a USB creating tool. XBoot can create ISO image from files and then write these files to the USB drive for booting or installation.
💧 Download XBoot here
9. Windows Bootable Image Creator
This is a straightforward and ultra-small tool that accomplishes its job as you expect. It has a super-simple interface and minimum buttons to avoid confusion of new users. This is a tool from AskVG.💧 Download Windows Bootable Image Creator
10. Other Tools
➤ Novicorp WinToFlash is also a tool that will help you to recover deleted bootloader apart from creating a bootable flash drive.➤ Windows official USB creation tool is an official tool to create a bootable USB drive to install downloaded Windows 7 and Windows 8 ISO images without burning it to traditional discs.
➤ FlashBoot is a bit tool having around 24 MB in download size. It has more options than any other tool but is actually a paid tool, but anyone can use it for free.
➤ The Etcher is an excellent tool for macOS users
Result:
⏩ 'Rufus' is the best but the new Ventoy is completely different and fast.
⏩ 'LiLi' is the best choice for Linux specialists.⏩ 'WinSetup From USB' is for installing multiple OS in one USB drive.
⏩ 'RMPrep USB' is for making the partition in USB drive along with Windows.
⏩ If you want to clone a complete partition with OS 'WinUSB Maker' is the best choice.
Which tool do you think is the best? Do you have any other good tool to list?
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* Yumi, very good.
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Anyway, sometimes other tools work better.
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