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 4.6.2205 Beta changelog:
- Add a new setup.exe wrapper to bypass Windows 11 24H2 in-place upgrade restrictions (#2568)
- Add TimeZone to regional options replication (#2499)
- Set local account passwords to not expire by default
- Fix an error when trying to write compressed VHD images (#2468)
- Fix an error when invoking Rufus from the PowerShell commandline (#2556)
- Improve revoked UEFI bootloaders check to support Linux SBAT, Windows SVN and cert DBX
Note: If you think you found an issue with the BETA, please report it HERE
Download: Rufus 4.6 Beta | 1.4 MB (Open Source)
Links: Rufus Home Page | Project Page @GitHub