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 3.2.1397 changelog:
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Add RSA-2048 signature validation on all the server downloads
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Add "Fast zeroing" cheat mode (courtesy of René van der Zee)
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Add support for XP/Server 2003 x64 ISOs (courtesy of Mattiwatti)
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Improve ISO extraction performance by preallocating files (courtesy of Mattiwatti)
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Improve bad blocks check algorithm (from suggestions by AL.Skywalker)
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Fix progress not being displayed for Sylinux or GRUB downloads
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Fix unwanted application close when cancelling an image scan
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Fix an issue where FAT32 could still be selected for ISOs containing a >4GB file
NOTE: This version is not compatible with Windows XP or Windows VISTA.
Download: Rufus 3.2.1397 | Portable | ~1.0 MB (Open Source)
Link: Rufus Home Page