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 Thai translation, courtesy of Sippapas Wangsri
- Add Drag and Drop support, courtesy of SeymourApps
- Add a retry for most write operations
- Update UEFI:NTFS, ms-sys and Grub4DOS to latest
- Dual sign Rufus with both SHA-1 and SHA-256
- Fix 2nd line of SHA-256 being hidden on some platforms
- Fix shutdown prevention issues
- Additional fixes & translation updates
Download: Rufus 2.7.855 | Rufus Portable | 861 KB (Open Source)
Link: Rufus Home Page