BOOTDISK - Flash Drive Formatting Utility and Tools

This utility consists of BASH scripts that create bootable flash drives for use on UEFI and BIOS systems. It provides functionality under macOS and Linux similar to the Rufus USB Tool for Windows. Graphical menus using Zenity are now supported on Linux.

Zenity Menu	Text Menu

Features

• Create a FreeDOS 1.4 boot disk with the basic utilities such as FDISK,FORMAT,SYS,EDIT etc.

• Create a MS-DOS boot disk using the version included with Windows from XP to 8.1.

• Create bootable Windows install media and Windows To Go media from an ISO image.¹

• Create bootable Linux media that includes persistence on supported distributions. ²

• Create UEFI bootable exFAT or NTFS disks using the UEFI:NTFS bootloader.

• Create a boot disk using the pre-built UEFI Shell image provided by Pete Batard.

• Download official retail Windows ISOs and UEFI Shell ISOs using the Fido script.

• Calculate the SHA-1 checksum for Windows ISO files and search the sha1.rg-adguard.net databases.

• Customize the Windows installation process to automatically create a local account, configure privacy settings, select language and timezone settings, skip wireless network setup and disable automatic BitLocker encryption.

• Customize Windows 11 installation media to disable TPM, Secure Boot and RAM requirements.

• Additional information on the features above is available by selecting the About option.

Installation

Download from Releases or clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/jpz4085/BOOTDISK.git

Install, uninstall or upgrade from the previous release.

sudo ./setup.sh install | uninstall | upgrade

Click the shortcut on the app menu or run from terminal.

bootdisk #Graphical dialogues.
bootdisk --text-mode

Install any missing software packages as needed.

Dependencies

Required: UEFI Bootable Media
7zip, curl, jq (JSON processor), bash (above 3.2 on macOS)

Recommended	Packages
Windows/UEFI Shell ISO downloads:	powershell
Linux NTFS and exFAT Support:	ntfs-3g, exfatprogs
Graphical Dialogue Support:	zenity (Linux)
Imaging Progress Support:	pv/pipeviewer

Optional	Packages
Legacy BIOS and DOS media:	ms-sys, mtools
Support for Windows To Go media:	wimtools, bcd-sys
macOS NTFS Write/Format Support:	Tuxera/Paragon
macOS Linux Persistence Support:	e2fsprogs

Note: For macOS see MacPorts or Homebrew.

Footnotes

1. See the Troubleshooting section of NOTES for help if the terminal is forced closed due to a memory issue. ↩

2. Persistence partitions are supported on Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu and related distributions. ↩