EtchDroid

EtchDroid is an open-source application that helps you write images to USB drives.

Use it to make a bootable operating system USB drive when your laptop is dead.

Supported devices

• ✅ USB flash drives
• ✅ USB SD card adapters
• ❌ USB hard drives / SSDs
• ❌ USB docks and hubs
• ❌ Internal SD card slot
• ❌ Optical or floppy disk drives
• ❌ Thunderbolt-only devices

Supported disk image types

• ✅ Modern GNU/Linux operating system images, including Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, pop!_OS, Linux Mint, FreeBSD, BlissOS and many more
• ✅ Raspberry PI SD card images (but you must unzip them first!)
• ❌ Official Microsoft Windows ISOs from microsoft.com
• ⚠️ Community-built Windows images, made for EtchDroid (be careful: they may contain viruses!)
• ❌ Apple DMG disk images
• ❌ Older GNU/Linux OS images < 2010 such as Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux

Support the project

If you want to say thanks, you can send a donation.

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/depau
• GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/depau
• One-time options on the website: https://etchdroid.app/donate/

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