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 4.11.2285 changelog:
- Add a cheat mode (Ctrl-Alt-D) to toggle between Light and Dark mode (#2814)
- Improve WUE option text relating to the CA 2023 option
- Update Linux SBAT / Microsoft SVN Secure Boot revocation values to latest
- Fix some GRUB/Syslinux download dialogs showing only the "Close" button (#2813)
- Fix an assert being triggered when using the WUE CA 2023 option on its own (#2815, #2818)
- Fix an application crash on systems that have a failed dynamic disk (#2794)
Download: Rufus 4.11 | Portable | ~2.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Rufus 32-bit | ARM64
Links: Rufus Home Page | Project Page @GitHub | Screenshot
