Open Source C Bootable USB Tools

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.

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.

USBWriter is tiny Windows tool that lets you write an image file directly to an USB drive. It requires no installation and depends on no bloated framework, it's just a little program that you may put on your desktop. This tool is useful to create a bootable USB disk from a Linux Live CD image file such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo or ArchLinux. Please read the wiki in case of issues, every possible error or misbehavior is explained.

⭐️ WinDiskWriter — bootable disk creator with Windows for macOS. ⭐️ 🚨 Supports Windows 11 Secure Boot and TPM patching 🚨 - Runs on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 and up - Supports the following versions of Microsoft Windows 💿: — Windows 11, — Windows 10, — Windows 8.1, — Windows 8, — Windows 7, — Windows Vista [ Including Windows Server editions ] 🖥 WinDiskWriter offers a user-friendly graphical interface that simplifies the process and guides you through the steps. 🖥 WinDiskWriter is written in Objective-C, a programming language that ensures high compatibility with older versions of macOS. Despite supporting multiple architectures (x86_64 and ARM64), WinDiskWriter has a small application size, thanks to the efficiency of Objective-C, which is supported by all versions of Mac OS X.

Tool for creating live usb-drives and downloading distros. This is an upgraded version of Unetbootin focusing on Bittix linux 9 and above and Linux Mint and Linux Mint debian. Has Distrowatch.com link etc.

FOR WINDOWS USERS WHO WANT TO JUMP TO LINUX EASILY/PAINLESSLY WITH A FAST BOOTING USB FLASH DRIVE. LATEST VERSION AT www.grub4usb.com A simplified "FAMILY TREE"/"Ancestor" perspective: www.grub4usb.com for more. Introduction (from http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/) GRANDPA: GRUB is a Multiboot boot loader. It was derived from GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, originally by Erich Stefan Boleyn. DAD: GRUB4DOS made it easier for Windows/DOS users, but was still unreliable; the boot record was difficult to install for average users. GRUB4USB was developed to automate the installation of the correct 446 bytes to the boot sector, providing Windows Users with a bootable USB Flash Drive which could contain any flavor of Linux (or other OS). IDIOT PROOF: GRUB4USB is "AUTOMATIC AND HANDS FREE". Simply insert USB Flash Drives, they're detected, the boot record is installed with a Linux distribution to quickly create functional, bootable USB Flash Drives; aka LIVE USB.

Graphical tool for creating bootable USB stick from Linux ISO images