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 2.17.1198 changelog:
- Add support for Debian 9 live ISOs in UEFI mode
- Add support for Super Floppy Disk "partitioning" mode
- Add support for more non-USB card readers
- Strengthen download update checks, to prevent attack scenarios that leverage user unawareness
- Fix an issue with Spanish translation prompts not displaying properly
- Fix an issue with Windows To Go support on some non-official Windows ISOs
- Fix an issue with log autoscrolling
- Fix an issue when using A: or B: as drive letters
Download: Rufus 2.17.1198 | 944 KB (Open Source)
Link: Rufus Home Page
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