Comments on: 5 Best GUI-Enabled USB Image Writer Tools on Linux

By: James

James — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 10:23:59 +0000

Etcher also has a tendency to do that. A quick search will give you lots of hits.

By: Mark Rijckenberg

Mark Rijckenberg — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 06:49:24 +0000

I prefer Ventoy above all other options. After installing Ventoy, you just copy the iso image files to the USB stick. Simple. It allows booting ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.

By: tosim

tosim — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 11:23:17 +0000

Please let me highly recommend the “MultibootUSB” program. Usable in Linux and Windows. Allows you to place multiple iso’s on your stick, and upon booting, you click on the one you want to use. I’ve been using it since its inception.

By: Attaullah Khan Lodhi

Attaullah Khan Lodhi — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 01:03:23 +0000

In reply to J Richard Kirkham BSc.

Well, you can fix that easily with gparted live. I also got into an issue and the drive wasn’t formatting or working.

I tried diskpart in Windows and the mini partition tool also, but no luck, then used gparted and deleted the partition created a new mbr (msdos) partition table, then formatted, and now it is working fine.

By: Andor Ugalde

Andor Ugalde — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 13:41:22 +0000

Have used all three and they are all great. One thing about Etcher. It will write the image to the USB identically. This means that if your image is 2 GB and your USB stick is 8 GB you will not be able to use the remaining 6 GB.

This is because Etcher writes the ISO image itself instead of extracting the contents. You will see that disk managers in Windows and Linux will show the correct size of your USB Stick but within the OS it will give you the total capacity as that of the image you installed.

By: J Richard Kirkham BSc

J Richard Kirkham BSc — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 18:22:18 +0000

Avoid using the startup disk built into Ubuntu. It damaged my flash drive.