Bootable USB Creator Softwares

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.

1.  Rufus 

Rufus is a simple and easy to use. It automatically detects your USB flash drive and capacity so you can easily identify which device you are formatting. 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.

  

2.  RMPrepUSB

It's all in one tool. Features come with the cluttered interface. If you don't know what are you doing, don't use it. I personally do not recommend it if you want a simple bootable USB to install a new operating system.
RMPrepUBS is specialized in creating multiple partitions in a single USB drive. You can install 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.For advanced users.Difficult to use.Create ISO from the USB drive.

Edit the hard drive grub or syslinux bootloader.

Test speed of the USB drive.

Support all OS.

3.  Universal USB Installer

Specialized tool for creating bootable live Linux OS. It has a predefined list of most of the Linux distributions available. Give the path of ISO image and USB flash drive you want to boot from. Prepare a Live antivirus rescue disk using it. A special option for this is also given for reuse CD.

+ Specialized menu for Linux, also support Window 7

4.  YUMI

Yumi, short for Your Universal Multiboot Installer. YUMI allow 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 have 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.

5.  UNetbootin

This tool is an exact clone of Universal USB installer or you can also say Universal USB installer is a clone of 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, iOS, and Windows.

So if you are using Linux, most of the software's listed here will not run where UNetbootin will come to help.

 6.  Linux Live USB Creator (LiLi)

LiLi is one more software used to make bootable USB. The special feature called built-in Vitalization allow 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.

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 USB drive for booting or installation.

9.  Window Bootable Image Creator

This is a straightforward and an 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.

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 160KB in size.