WinUSB Alternatives

WinUSB is described as 'Simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick Windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD' and is a bootable usb creator in the cd/dvd tools category. There are more than 25 alternatives to WinUSB for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, PortableApps.com and Ubuntu apps. The best WinUSB alternative is Rufus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinUSB are balenaEtcher, UNetbootin, YUMI exFAT and Universal USB Installer.

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  1. Zadig icon
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    Zadig is a Windows application that installs generic USB drivers, such as WinUSB, libusb-win32/libusb0.sys or libusbK, to help you access USB devices.

    10 Zadig alternatives

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  2. mintstick icon
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    Linux Mint's USB Image Writer (mintstick) is an easy to use and dependable means of creating bootable USBs.

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    • Linux
    • Linux Mint
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  3. ISO to USB icon
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    ISO to USB is a free and small software that can burn the ISO image file directly to the USB drives, these USB drives include USB flash drives, memory sticks and other USB storage devices, it also supports to create a bootable USB disk with Windows operating systems.

    48 ISO to USB alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  4. Deepin Boot Maker is a boot maker developed by Deepin Technology Team. It is simple in interface and easy to operate. It helps users to easily make deepin boot disk.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. 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

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  6. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. FlashBoot icon
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    FlashBoot is a tool to create an installable clone of Windows 7/8.x/10 (including all your apps and data) on the USB thumbdrive/HDD and instantly transfer your entire OS to another computer, even with dissimilar hardware:

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  8. 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.

    12 Startup Disk Creator alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
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    • GNOME MultiWriter can be used to write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at once. Supported drive sizes are between 1Gb and 32Gb.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  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

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Pardus
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  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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