DriveDroid Alternatives

DriveDroid is described as 'Allows you to boot your PC from ISO/IMG files stored on your phone' and is a bootable usb creator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to DriveDroid for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and Android apps. The best DriveDroid alternative is Rufus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like DriveDroid are balenaEtcher, UltraISO, dd and MultiBootUSB.

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  1. Optical drives are rapidly disappearing from our computers of all kinds, and consequently installing operating systems from USB flash disks is becoming increasingly popular. ISO images of the ROSA Linux distribution were originally intended for burning to DVD disks, but they can...

    46 ROSA Image Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Boot PC icon
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    Boot your pc using android powered device[rooted].

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  3. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool utility will format any USB flash drive, with your choice of FAT, FAT32, or NTFS partition types. You can also make the disk bootable by specifying a file location.

    9 HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Automatically make a live bootable usb with ease with AutoBootDisk, a open-source program

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. DriveCompanion is a complement app for DriveDroid. It will try to make DriveDroid(dd) work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  6. Startup Disk Creator (usb-creator) is an official tool to create Live USBs of Ubuntu from the Live CD or from an ISO image. The tool is included by default in all releases after Ubuntu 8.04.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
     
  7. USBWriter icon
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    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.

    42 USBWriter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. SharpBoot icon
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    SharpBoot is a small utility for creating multiboot ISO or USB. You just need to drag-n-drop some iso files inside, and it automatically adds description and category (for supported ISO files, not shown in the screenshot). It uses Syslinux for the menu and bootloader.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Piw is a software to create bootable media i.e USB disk. It is similar to UNetbootin or Rufus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Pardus
     
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