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Balena Etcher doesn’t work for creating ChromeOS Flex or Windows ISOs anymore. It appears to still work with mac ISOs. Is it time to move to something else and what do you suggest? 

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u/popgoesthecolon

You could also try MacUSB. It was posted the other day as being able to build macOS, Windows and Linux images. I haven’t used it. But have a look. It’s free.

u/parrotpad_liam

balenaEtcher quietly stopped pretending to handle Windows ISOs because Windows installers aren't a flat image. They need an actual NTFS partition plus the right bootloader, and Etcher only does raw block writes. It was always wrong for that, it just used to fail less obviously. Options by target: - Windows ISO from a Mac: WinDiskWriter (free, GUI). Or the official Microsoft tool from any Windows box once. - ChromeOS Flex: Google's Chromebook Recovery Utility (Chrome extension) is the supported path. - Linux and most other ISOs: Raspberry Pi Imager on Mac handles arbitrary images (Choose OS, Use custom). Ventoy if you want one USB that boots many ISOs. - macOS itself: createinstallmedia, or Disk Utility for plain disk images. No single answer anymore, but each tool is the path the vendor actually tests against.

u/Annual-Act-3614

Pour ma part, j'utilise Ventoy, et j'en suis très content.

u/Beneficial-Mind-5932

For ChromeOS Flex specifically, Google's own Chromebook Recovery Utility (a Chrome browser extension) is the official path. It handles their image format properly. For Windows plus basically anything else, Ventoy is the modern answer. Set up a Ventoy USB once and after that you just drop ISO files onto it and boot from them directly, no re-flashing per OS.

u/yadvr

I use Ventoy based usb, and it’s made my installing easier. Now all I do is copy an iso and that’s it, I just boot the copied iso from the ventoy menu. Works for 99% bootable isos.

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I couldn't find instructions to install Ventoy on mac.