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
What's new in this version:
- Add 32 bit support for UEFI:NTFS boot
- Add standalone UEFI:NTFS boot installation, in advanced mode
- Add Vietnamese translation, courtesy of thanhtai2009
- Disable support for ISOs that hide their GRUB version (looking at you Kaspersky!)
- Fix broken Windows UEFI installation when using GPT/NTFS (#461)
- Fix creation of 32 bit UEFI Windows 10 installation flash drives (#462)
- Other improvements (Notify when no update is available on manual check, add label for UEFI:NTFS partition, etc.)
Download: Rufus 2.1.649 | Rufus Portable | 788 KB (Open Source)
Link: Rufus Home Page
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