Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need! Oh, and Rufus is fast. For instance it's about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO (with honorable mention to WiNToBootic for managing to keep up). It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USBs from ISOs. A non-exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISOs is available here.
It can be especially useful for cases where: • you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
• you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
• you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
• you want to run a low-level utility
Rufus 4.10.2279 changelog: • Add Dark Mode support (courtesy of @ozone10) (#1453)(#2510)(#2713)
• Add support for creating Windows CA 2023 compatible media (requires a Windows 11 25H2
• ISO. For more on this, see this Rufus FAQ entry).
• Add support for saving an existing drive to ISO (UDF only)
• Improve error reporting when saving to VHD/VHDX (with thanks to @Kazkans) (#2779)(#2799)
• Improve persistence support for Linux Mint (#2807)
• Fix UEFI DBX updates being reported in some timezones, even when there are none (#2762)
• Fix a situation where no file system can be selected in ISO mode (#2769)
• Fix a crash when trying to process Windows ISOs with very long paths (#2777)(#2787)(#2793)
Download:
Rufus 4.10 |
Portable | ~2.0 MB (Open Source)
Download:
Rufus 32-bit |
ARM64Links:
Rufus Home Page |
Project Page @GitHub |
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