YUMI 1.0.3.1 exFAT / 2.0.2.8 UUI – Free Bootable USB Drive

YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer) is a portable application that helps to create a Multiboot USB Flash Drive. The Universal USB Installer (UUI), also known as Imager, is software for creating fully functional Linux USB drives. This ISO to USB imaging tool helps users easily boot from a USB Drive.

With YUMI, you can create a versatile USB drive that boots reliably for any purpose. You can use it to boot from a Live Linux distribution, run a Windows Installer, or even create a fully portable operating system using Windows to Go methods. You can also boot and run popular antivirus scanners, disk cloning software, penetration testing tools, and other system utilities from the removable storage media.

Using this Open-Source USB boot software tool is as easy as 1-2-3. Select your target flash drive, choose your distribution from the list, browse to the ISO file (or download the ISO), and click “Create. Once finished, you should have a ready-to-run Live USB containing the Live Operating System, Windows Installer, or System Diagnostics utility you previously selected.

Get a bootable USB without losing your storage. Unlike other tools that use the ‘DD’ (Disk Destroyer) method to write an ISO to a USB, Universal USB Installer (UUI) allows you to continue using your drive for storage. While the “DD” method overwrites the entire file system, the UUI provides several native options that let you install your Live Linux distribution without losing your precious storage space.

Persistence feature for saving changes

A key feature of this tool is its support for persistent storage. This allows you to save changes you make to your Live Linux distribution and restore them on subsequent boots. Ubuntu-based Casper persistence now works with FAT32, NTFS, or exFAT formatted drives. Starting with version 2.0.1.6, the drive is formatted with an exFAT filesystem, allowing the creation of a persistent block file larger than 4 GB, with support for up to 40 GB.

Drag and Drop ISO Files onto the USB

For quick and easy file transfers, the tool supports drag-and-drop functionality. You can use it to add files to your bootable USB without worrying about keeping track of your installs.
Instead of relaunching this Live Linux USB Creator to add more distributions, you can drag additional ISO, IMG, WIM, VHD(x), VDI.vtoy, and EFI files from any folder on your computer and drop them onto any folder under the UUI folder on your flash drive. You can create custom folders within the UUI folder for additional storage. During bootup, the system automatically populates menu entries for any newly discovered items.

Secure Boot from USB

This application supports Secure Boot from USB with UEFI. During startup, select ‘VTOYEFI’ and then choose the option to ‘Enroll_This_Key_In_MokManager.cer’ to enable Secure Boot.