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 4.12.2313 Beta changelog:
- Filter out the new Bitdefender VHDs
- Filter disallowed characters in local account names
- Improve Microsoft Dev Drive detection (#2873, courtesy of @MartinKuschnik)
- Improve the pre-formatting partition cleanup code
- Improve error reporting on ISO extraction issues
- Improve detection of drives with long hardware IDs (typically SSDs) (#2894)
- Improve conflicting process reporting
- Improve support for Nutanix (#2884) and umbrelOS ISOs
- Fix a TOCTOU vulnerability in Fido script execution (CVE-2026-2398, reported by @independent-arg)
- Fix replacement vulnerabilities for diskcopy.dll and oscdimg.exe
- Fix FFU image creation being erroneously invocated, when trying to save an ISO image (#2889)
- Fix saving of ISO images to paths that contain spaces (#2829)
- Update UEFI:NTFS and UEFI DBXs to latest
Download: Rufus 4.12.2313 Beta | 2.0 MB (Open Source)
Links: Rufus Home Page | Project Page @GitHub | Screenshot
