Universal USB Installer

 Universal USB Installer is a free universal program for creating bootable USB flash drives. You can download this universal utility from this link. There is no paid version. The whole essence of the program is reflected in the name - the utility is universal. You can make bootable USB sticks with Windows and Linux. This also applies to the operation of the program itself, only owners of devices on Mac OS will not be able to use it. There is also the ability to download the image directly from the network, if we are talking about Linux. There is a standard procedure for Windows. Of the settings, it is worth highlighting the choice of the file system and formatting the drive before recording. The disadvantages include the fact that the program does not work with the XP version or lower, and the program does not have the Russian language. Brief instructions for creating a bootable USB flash drive In "Step 1" select the desired version of the OS that you plan to burn to a USB fl...

Ventoy

 


one of the simplest, but at the same time quite functional program that allows you to create not just bootable flash drives, but also multi-boot ones, we are talking about the Ventoy program.


Ventoy


Ventoy is a free and open source bootable flash drive software.


Program website – https://ventoy.net


Most programs that allow you to create bootable flash drives, including those that will be discussed below, imply certain actions with the ISO image, i.e. they write it in a certain way to a USB flash drive.


However, the Ventoy program works a little differently, and this is its main feature: in order to create a bootable USB flash drive with Linux, we just need to install the program on a USB flash drive and copy the ISO image to this flash drive in the usual way. At the same time, we can copy not only one image, but several, and not only ISO files of Linux distributions, but also other ISO images of boot systems.




Moreover, this flash drive, after it becomes bootable, you can continue to use, i.e. store regular files on it.


However, of course, this program also has its drawbacks, for example, the fact that some ISO files may have problems, i.e. not all ISO files will boot, but most ISO files, including Linux distributions, are of course supported.