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Rufus (The R eliable U SB F ormatting U tility, with S ource [4]) is a free and open-source portable application for Microsoft Windows that can be used to format and create bootable USB flash drives or Live USBs .
"Multiboot" means that the tool allows multiple systems on the USB stick, as well as a bootloader on the USB flash drive to choose which system to load at boot time. Multiboot is environmental technology since it requires only a single storage device to boot multiple files.
GHOST is marketed as an OS deployment solution. Its capture and deployment environment requires booting to a Windows PE environment. This can be accomplished by creating an ISO (to burn to a DVD) or a USB bootable disk, installed to a client as an automation folder or delivered by a PXE server.
Ventoy can be installed on a USB flash drive, local disk, SSD ( NVMe ), or SD card and it will directly boot from the selected .iso, .wim, .img, .vhd (x), or .efi file (s) added. Ventoy does not extract the image file (s) to the USB drive, but uses them directly, as it has the unzipping facility and does so during the installation. It is possible to place multiple ISO images on a single device ...
Universal USB Installer ( UUI) is an open-source live Linux USB flash drive creation software. It allows users to create a bootable live USB flash drive using an ISO image from a supported Linux distribution, antivirus utility, system tool, or Microsoft Windows installer.
UEFI requires the firmware and operating system loader (or kernel) to be size-matched; that is, a 64-bit UEFI firmware implementation can load only a 64-bit operating system (OS) boot loader or kernel (unless the CSM-based Legacy boot is used) and the same applies to 32-bit.
Windows 7 was intended to be an incremental upgrade to Microsoft Windows, addressing Windows Vista's poor critical reception while maintaining hardware and software compatibility. Windows 7 continued improvements on the Windows Aero user interface with the addition of a redesigned taskbar that allows pinned applications, and new window management features. Other new features were added to the ...
Universal Serial Bus 3.0(USB 3.0), marketed as SuperSpeed USB, is the third major version of the Universal Serial Bus(USB) standard for interfacing computers and electronic devices. It was released in November 2008. The USB 3.0 specification defined a new architecture and protocol, named SuperSpeed, which included a new lane for providing full-duplex data transfers that physically required ...