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:
- Detect ISOHybrid images and prompt users on how they should be written
- Add MD5/SHA1 checksum verification ('#' button on the status bar)
- Add Zip decompression support for DD Images
- Add a cheat mode to save the current USB to VHD (Alt-V)
- Add a cheat mode for ISO timestamp preservation (Alt-T)
- Add a cheat mode for USB enumeration debugging (Alt-.)
- Disable MS-DOS creation for Windows 10 or later (FreeDOS is still available)
- Fix Windows To Go creation issues, and enable access to internal disks
- Fix UEFI support for Fedora ISOs
- Fix some USB enumeration issues
- Other improvements and fixes, including translation updates
Download: Rufus 2.3.709 | Rufus Portable | 817 KB (Open Source)
Link: Rufus Home Page
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