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Rufus was originally designed [5] as a modern open source replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows, [6] which was primarily used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only [ 7 ] ), was released on December 04, 2011, with originally ...
A modern PC is configured to attempt to boot from various devices in a certain order. If a computer is not booting from the device desired, such as the floppy drive, the user may have to enter the BIOS Setup function by pressing a special key when the computer is first turned on (such as Delete, F1, F2, F10 or F12), and then changing the boot order. [6]
This also allows them to be run from non-writable media such as a CD-ROM. [5] Since each instance of BartPE is a new installation, the BartPE "boot" disk needs original Windows Setup files in order to operate. The Bart PE Builder application interprets and condenses files from a Windows setup CD to create the BartPE installation.
NaughtyPE - Windows XP PE boot disk with sound support and other multimedia features. PicoXP - Minimalistic 14 MB boot disk based on XP; UXP - Based On Windows XP for making a multiboot CD/DVD which includes The LiveXP and WinRoot (also for customization of the CD/DVD there are other apps used such as Nlite, etc.)
For NT and NT-based operating systems, it also allows the user to pass preconfigured options to the kernel. The menu options are stored in boot.ini, which itself is located in the root of the same disk as NTLDR. Though NTLDR can boot DOS and non-NT versions of Windows, boot.ini cannot configure their boot options.
Ranish Partition Manager is a freeware hard disk partition editor, disk cloning utility, and boot manager, that gives a high level of control for creating multi-boot systems. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is available on the freeware live CD SystemRescueCD and the Ultimate Boot CD (not the Windows version).
GNOME Disks: Gnome disks contributors GPL-2.0-or-later: Yes No Linux Anything LinuxLive USB Creator (LiLi) Thibaut Lauzière GNU GPL v3: No No Windows Linux remastersys: Tony Brijeski GNU GPL v2: No [2] No Debian, Linux Mint, Ubuntu Debian and derivatives Rufus: Pete Batard GNU GPL v3: Yes No Windows Anything SliTaz TazUSB: SliTaz GNU GPL v3 ...
In conjunction with EasyBCD's ability to create bootable USB drives, [7] it also has the option of creating portable entries that can be used on the normal PC bootloader or, more practically, on bootable external media. EasyBCD can create entries that boot into hard disk images (both VHD and raw disk image formats), ISO images, WinPE 2.0+ WIM ...