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 Rufus 2.12.1054:
- Add Hebrew translation, courtesy of NSBuilder and פלוני אלמוני
- Add a cheat mode (Alt-O) to create an ISO from the first optical media found
- Enable target system selection for Windows To Go
- Enable NTFS selection for Syslinux 6.x (EXPERIMENTAL)
- Fix an issue that allowed BIOS target selection with pure UEFI images
- Fix license display for RTL languages
- Update Grub4DOS and FreeDOS to latest
- Additional fixes and improvements
Download: Rufus 2.12.1054 | 928 KB (Open Source)
Link: Rufus Home Page
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