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 4.4.2103 changelog:
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Add workaround for distros that use broken symbolic links as their UEFI bootloaders (such as Mint 21.3)
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Add support for GRUB 2.12
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Fix a crash when saving .ffu images
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Fix UEFI:NTFS partition not being added, in MBR mode, for some Linux ISOs
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Prevent Microsoft Dev Drives from being listed [#2395]
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Improve support for SDXC card readers
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Improve Large FAT32 formatting by aligning start of data regions to 1 MB (courtesy of Fred) [#2387]
Download: Rufus 4.4 | Portable 1.4 MB (Open Source)
Download: Rufus 32-bit | ARM64
Links: Rufus Home Page | Project Page @GitHub