Rufus 4.15.2391 Beta

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 4.15.2391 Beta changelog:

• Improve the guards for using the "silent" option
• Improve the ability to cancel during write retries
• Fix unrestricted XML entity expansion and integer overflow in ezxml parser (courtesy of @esadowski4) [GHSA-55r2-34wg-8mv9]
• Fix "silent" Windows installation failing at 75% in most cases [#2960]
• Fix a crash during boot when using UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based ARM64 platforms [#2934]
• Fix the first WUE option always being checked by default [#2965]
• Fix an infinite loop when using Windows ISOs that contain multiple WIMs
• Fix "Enable runtime UEFI media validation" checkbox not always being properly enabled
• Other WUE improvements/fixes for OneDrive removal and username validation (with thanks to @christian8641) [#2984, #2991]

Download: Rufus 4.15 Beta | 1.9 MB (Open Source)
Links: Rufus Home Page | Project Page @GitHub | Screenshot

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