Create Multi Boot USB Flash Drive or CD/DVD Using SARDU For Free

Now a days most of the people, while configuring any system, prefer to boot using USB pen drive or flash drive. Specially for the technical support guys, who need to reinstall any operating system every now and then, and meet the requirement for different kind of customers. Every time it’s not possible to create bootable flash drives for different kind of operating system. Even for individual use, if you prefer to change the operating system or create dual boot system, then its not possible every time to create bootable USB flash drive for individual operating system. In such a situation, if a single thumb drive could be used for multi boot support, then it would be easier for every individual to use. To meet this of requirement, an application has been developed called SARDU, which can be used not only to develop multi boot USB or CD or DVD, you can also add Antivirus rescue disk along with it several other useful utility softwares.

SARDU, a freeware utility software developed to create multi boot USB thumb drive or CD/DVD. It can manage both Linux and Windows operating system simultaneously, which means with this software, you can keep Windows and Linux operating systems in a single thumb drive or optical disk.

[Also view: Install Multiple Operating system by creating Virtual Machine with in your system using Oracle VM Virtual Box.]

SARDU supports:

Antivirus Rescue disk such as AOSS PcTools, AVG Rescue, Avira AntiVir Rescue System, BitDefender Rescue, Dr. Web Live, eScan Rescue, F-Secure Rescue, GDATA Boot, Kaspersky Rescue, Panda Safe, VBA32 Rescue, Acronis Antimalware, Ubuntu MRT, Microsoft WDO 32, Microsoft WDO 64.

Utility Softwares such as Floppy win98SE, Clonezilla, GParted, Macrium Reflect, NT Password, Ophcrack, Parted Magic, Partition Wizard, Ping, Redo Backup Live CD, System Rescue CD, Trinity Rescue Kit, Ultimate Boot CD, OpenDiagnostics, Hiren’s Boot CD.

Linux operating system such as Austrumi, BackTrack, Damn Small Linux, Fedora, Inquisitor Live(Debian based), Linux Multimedia Player “Limp”, NimbleX, Phoronix Test Suite, Puppy Linux, Slax, xPUD, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, YLMF, Mint, LinuX Gamers, Android x86.

Windows PE, Recovery Disk and Installer such as LiveXP, Windows PE, UBCD4WIN, Vista PE, Win7PE, Win XP Recovery Disk, Win Vista Recovery Disk, Win Vista64 Recovery Disk, Win 7 Recovery Disk, Win 7 x64 Recovery Disk, Windows Vista, Windows 7 AIO, Windows 8 AIO, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP 64.

This software is really useful for the computer savvy people and working with this software is so easy that even an amateur can use this software to create multi boot USB Thumb Drive or optical disk.

Let have a glance, how to create multi boot USB thumb drive or optical disk using SARDU.

1. At first download the software in zip format from SARDU’s dedicated server or from Cnet’s Web site.

2. Unzip the folder and run sardu.exe and for 64 bit users run sardu_x64.exe file.

3. Before creating multi boot USB or optical disk, you need to either download or create the ISO image of the Antivirus Rescue Disk or Utility Software disk or Linux or Windows recovery or installer disk. If you don’t know from where to download the ISO image of the mentioned disks, just click on the Software or OS which you want to include in your multi boot USB or disk, SARDU will download you for  you or direct you to download link. If the software is copyrighted, then you have to use the original version. Don’t forget to keep the ISO images, in the ISO folder, created after extraction of the installation zip file.

If you create the ISO image, after burning the physical disk, name the ISO image file as per the convention of SARDU, which you will find when you keep the mouse pointer on every software you want to include.

4. Once you keep the ISO image files in the ISO folder, for those softwares or operating system, which you want to include in the multi boot system, SADU will recognize the image files and those options will automatically get active. Now insert the USB thumb drive into the system and click on search USB button, the thumb drive will be detected by this application and then click on the thumb drive logo to create multi boot thumb drive, else if you want to create multi boot optical disk, click on the CD/DVD logo, to create disk image or directly write the code into the disk.

That’s all, your multi boot USB drive or optical disk is ready to use. You can now use this single drive or disk for multipurpose. You don’t have to hover with a directory of disks. While booting using SARDU created multi boot thumb drive or optical disk, you will get booting option as shown below.

Thus SARDU is really an excellent tool mainly for the on field tech support people and even for the individual for personal tech support. It not only creates multi boot USB drive or disk, but also resources rescue disk and recovery disk. And the supported utility softwares are also very useful for fixing any serious problems of your system. It not only support booting multiple OS, but also fulfill the purpose of system maintenance.