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 2.15.1117 changelog:
- Fix non-listing of drives that are opened for write access by another process
- Report external processes that may be preventing disk access (in the log)
- Improve Windows To Go support for Windows 10 Creators Update
- Don"t report an error on checkdisk failure
- Update GRUB 2.0 and Grub4DOS to latest
- Other fixes and improvements
Download: Rufus 2.15.1117 | 932 KB (Open Source)
Link: Rufus Home Page