Rufus 1.4.4

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 uncompressed Disk Image support (FreeBSD, FreeNAS, etc.) (NEW)
Add right-to-left language support (NEW)
Add an alert when multiple partitions are about to be erased (NEW)
Add (unofficial) NTFS Compression support (NEW)
Add Finnish translation, courtesy of Riku Brander
Ignore failure on ISO autorun.inf creation, to keep dumb security applications happy
Improve hotplug detection
Improve Syslinux v5+ support (requires an internet connection to download extra files)
Fix support for latest gparted, ArchLinux, and other Syslinux v5+ based ISOs
Fix detection for Toshiba drives (again)
Fix UDF Unicode support