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Ventoy
A New Bootable USB Solution
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly. You can copy many files at a time and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. You can also browse ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files in local disks and boot them. x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are supported in the same way. Most types of OS supported (Windows/WinPE/Linux/ChromeOS/Unix/VMware/Xen...) 1100+ ISO files are tested, 90%+ distros in distrowatch.com supported. -
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** Support has been added for Endeavour, MX Linux, Pop! OS, Zorin, and CachyOS. Safely multiboot Windows and Linux. Grub2Win is a robust Windows application. Configure Grub boot screens and options directly from Windows. Completely free and open source. All modules are SSL signed for your security. Use your own .jpg files to create and customize background wallpaper. Everything installs to a 30 MB directory on your Windows C: drive. Automatically generates config files for Windows and the most popular Linux distributions. You can import Linux config files for Chrome and other Linux distributions. Supports all versions of Windows from Windows XP through Windows 11. Supports EFI and BIOS firmware both 64 and 32 bit. Grub2Win began in 2010 and has been downloaded more than two million times in 180 countries. If you like Grub2Win, please consider a small donation to be used for hardware and testing.
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WoeUSB
A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux
A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux. -
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rEFInd
An EFI boot manager utility
rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager. Like rEFIt, rEFInd can auto-detect your installed EFI boot loaders and it presents a pretty GUI menu of boot options. rEFInd goes beyond rEFIt in that rEFInd better handles systems with many boot loaders, gives better control over the boot loader search process, and provides the ability for users to define their own boot loader entries. -
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balenaEtcher
A safe way to flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives
Etcher is a powerful OS image flasher. It protects a user from accidentally overwriting hard-drives by making drive selection obvious; and with validated flashing there is no more writing images to corrupted drives. It is also called balenaEtcher since it is developed by balena. In addition, balenaEtcher can flash directly Raspberry Pi devices that support usbboot. Use for .iso and .img files, as well as zipped folders to create live SD cards and USB flash drives. Written with Electron for cross platform use (windows, macOS, and Linux). -
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Rufus
Utility to create bootable USB flash drives
Rufus is a standalone app designed to format and create a bootable USB drive for a large variety of ISOs. The app is just over 1MB in size and is notably faster than similar competitor apps such as the Windows 7 USB utility, Universal USB Installer, and UNetbootin. Rufus can come in handy when you need to simply format a USB drive, install an OS on a machine that lacks a CD/DVD-ROM drive, or when you need to boot an operating system temporarily without intentions of actually installing the media. This can be immensely useful while you're on the go or just need access to an OS for a temporary, isolated reason. The app can even be used to flash firmware to BIOS or other destinations by just using DOS. Even though Rufus is a tiny utility in comparison to other USB creation tools that can be rather bulky in size, it contends easily with the competition and creates bootable USB drives in record time! -
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Magisk
Suite of open source tools for customizing Android
Magisk is a suite of tools intended for Android customization, and supports devices higher than Android 4.2. Some elements of Android customization are root, boot scripts, SELinux patches, AVB2.0 / dm-verity / forceencrypt removals, etc. Some of the most important features of Magisk are that it provides root access to your device and it modifies read-only partitions when installing modules. Also, you can hide Magisk from root detections / system integrity checks. Magisk comes with a huge collections of tools for installation, daemons, and utilities for developers. Magisk contains MagiskSU, Magisk Modules and MagiskHide features. -
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boot-repair-disk
A rescue disk that includes the Boot Repair tool
See http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home -
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The Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 Filesystem Utilities (e2fsprogs) contain all of the standard utilities for creating, fixing, configuring , and debugging ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems.
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MultiOS-USB
Boot operating systems directly from ISO files
USB disk with multiple ISO files. Easy to use: install, copy ISO files and boot from USB. Display a list of currently supported operating systems. -
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Super Grub2 Disk
Boots into many systems and GRUB2 ones!
Super GRUB2 Disk helps you to boot into most any Operating System (OS) even if you cannot boot into it by normal means. -
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UEFI_MULTI
UEFI_MULTI - Make Multi-Boot USB-Drive
UEFI_MULTI - Make Multi-Boot USB-Drive. USB Multi-Boot of Linux ISO + Windows 10 VHD + Win10XPE in BIOS Or UEFI Secure mode. Make Bootable USB Drive with MBR and 2 Partitions. UEFI Secure boot support requires Format Drive using Grub2 as EFI Manager. Copy and Rename your Linux ISO files to folder images on FAT32 USB Boot drive U-BOOT. -
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FormatUsb
The FormatUsb tool is a reliable way to format USB flash drives
The FormatUsb tool is a reliable way to format USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks,SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card and SDXC Memory Card SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards. -
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USB_FORMAT
Make Bootable USB Drive with MBR and 2 Partitions
USB Format Tool - Make Bootable USB Drive with MBR and 2 Partitions. USB Multi-Boot of Linux ISO + Windows 10 VHD + Win10XPE in BIOS Or UEFI Secure mode. -
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DHCP Server Open Source Freeware Windows/Linux. MultiSubnet DHCP Server supports Dynamic, Static Leases, Relay Agents, BOOTP, PXEBOOT. Global, Range and Client Specific Options. Supports filtering of ranges on Mac Address, Vendor and User Class.
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EasyBCD
Powerful and user-friendly bootloader modification tool
EasyBCD is a powerful and user-friendly bootloader modification tool that allows users to manage and customize the Windows Boot Manager. It provides advanced features to create, edit, and configure multi-boot environments, making it possible to run multiple operating systems on a single computer. With its intuitive graphical interface, EasyBCD simplifies complex bootloader tasks, such as adding entries for Linux, macOS, older versions of Windows, and even custom ISO images. This makes it an essential utility for IT professionals, developers, and enthusiasts who require flexible and efficient multi-boot setups. -
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UNetbootin
Bootable live USB creator for Ubuntu, Fedora, and Linux distributions
UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file. -
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MacUSB
Creating bootable macOS and OS X USB drives has never been easier
macUSB is a macOS utility that streamlines the creation of bootable USB installers for macOS and legacy OS X versions, taking the complexity out of preparing installation media on modern Apple Silicon or Intel Macs. It automates disk formatting, installer detection, and content writing so that you can revive or install operating systems on older hardware—something that has become more difficult since Apple’s transition to its own silicon. With support for handling various disk image formats and applying necessary fixes for installers with older certificates, macUSB demystifies what was once a command-line-intensive process. Its goal is to make preparing bootable media accessible to users of all skill levels by intelligently managing installer images and systems, giving Mac users a straightforward path to restore or reinstall macOS across generations. -
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MultiThreaded TFTP Server Open Source Freeware Windows/Unix for PXEBOOT, firmware load, support tsize, blksize, timeout Server Port Ranges, Block Number Rollover for Large Files. Runs as Service/daemon. Single Port version also available. Download
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GRUB for DOS is the dos extension of GRUB. It enables dos users to run the configuration console directly in real mode. The project also contains an utility called WINGRUB, an GUI intends to help configuring and installing GRUB in the WINDOWS environment
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Super UEFIinSecureBoot Disk
Super UEFIinSecureBoot Disk: Boot any OS or .efi file
Super UEFIinSecureBoot Disk is a proof-of-concept (not actively maintained or enhanced) bootable image with GRUB2 bootloader designed to be used as a base for recovery USB flash drives. Key feature: disk is fully functional with UEFI Secure Boot mode activated. It can launch any operating system or .efi file, even with untrusted, invalid or missing signature. -
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WinDiskWriter
Windows Bootable USB creator for macOS
Windows USB disk creator for macOS. You can use this app to create bootable universal USB Windows installers that support both UEFI and Legacy BIOS modes. With this USB drive, you can install and enjoy Windows on your PC, Intel Mac, or certain Virtual Machines. WinDiskWriter knows how to make a bootable drive for each Windows Image type. You can bypass TPM, Minimum RAM, Secure Boot, and some other System Requirements set by Microsoft for Windows 11. You can create an all-in-one USB drive that supports both UEFI and Legacy boot modes. It's required if you want to install Windows on computers with old firmware that doesn't support EFI booting. Additional steps are required to get these versions to boot on EFI, such as extracting an EFI-capable bootloader from the installer. WinDiskWriter does it for you. -
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Kernelloader
Run Linux on the Playstation 2
Kernelloader is a free bootloader for PS2 Linux and other Playstation 2 operating systems. Loading can be done by "Action Replay Media Player", by "memory card exploit", by "FMCB" or any other homebrew loading method. If you downloaded the latest Linux Live DVD, you need to run the online updater to be able to play Youtube videos. -
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Clover EFI bootloader
Boot macOS, Windows, and Linux on Mac or PC with UEFI or BIOS firmware
Project has moved to https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader. -
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rEFIt
Boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines
rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs.
