One of the most popular tools that allows you to prepare an installation flash drive with Windows or Linux in just a few clicks. In addition to the main function, it can check disks for integrity, as well as add useful testing utilities to the boot image.
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A cross‑platform application with a simple and user‑friendly interface that will help you deploy the installation image to a memory card or USB flash drive. All you need to do is select the image file, the target disk and click the Flash button. After writing, Etcher can check the disk read and automatically unmount it.
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The utility is designed to record images of Windows. It supports the latest versions of this operating system and remains up-to-date. Thanks to the ascetic interface, it is simply unrealistic to make any mistake in the process of work.
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Unlike the previous ones, this program is designed to create disks from which the OS will boot and work without installation. The sources can be images in various formats, DVDs or Windows installed on a computer.
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An extremely simple tool for burning bootable disks with a minimum number of settings. In addition to deploying ready-made images, it can create full backups of disks and memory cards for subsequent quick recovery.
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The functional utility creates a bootable USB flash drive to install the system. Supports all versions of Windows and numerous distributions of Linux. At the same time, he is able not only to use ready-made images, but also to download them automatically from the Internet.
An application with which you can quickly make a multi-boot disk for Windows or Linux. Ventoy supports BIOS and UEFI, MBR and GPT partitions, as well as images of various formats. It is easy to add other versions of operating systems to the already recorded ISO files on the USB flash drive, and during the computer boot ‑ select the desired OS.
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An open source cross‑platform utility. Among its features is the creation of a boot disk for almost any Linux distribution. For recording, you can use an existing image or download it from the Internet directly through UNetbootin.
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A simple application for creating macOS installation flash drives. DiskMaker X has no interface: the image and target disk are selected through dialog boxes, and you will learn about the end of the process from the system notification.
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A very simple utility for recording bootable flash drives from macOS, which even the most inexperienced user can handle. Install Disk Creator automatically recognizes the downloaded installer from the "Programs" folder, and all that remains to be done is to select the flash drive to which it needs to be deployed.
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This material was first published in November 2019. In June 2023, we updated the text.
