Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives.
Features
- Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3
- Create DOS bootable USB drives, using FreeDOS or MS-DOS (Windows 8.1 or earlier)
- Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS
- Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
- Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones
- Create Windows 11 installation drives for PCs that don't have TPM or Secure Boot
- Create Windows To Go drives
- Create persistent Linux partitions
- Create VHD/DD images of a drive
- Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums of the selected image
- Improve Windows installation experience by automatically setting up OOBE parameters (local account, privacy options, etc.)
- Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives
- Download official Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 or Windows 11 retail ISOs
- Download UEFI Shell ISOs
- Modern and familiar UI, with 38 languages natively supported
- Small footprint. No installation required.
- Portable. Secure Boot compatible.
- 100% Free Software (GPL v3)
GitHub: GitHub - pbatard/rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
Official website: Rufus - The Official Website (Download, New Releases)
Latest stable release: Release Rufus 4.3 · pbatard/rufus
Latest Beta release: Release Rufus 4.3 BETA · pbatard/rufus
Changelog:
Rufus 4.3
- Add support for symbolic link preservation when NTFS is used
- Add an exception to enforce NTFS for Linux Mint's LMDE
- Add an expert feature to restrict a Windows installation to S Mode
- Fix persistence support for Debian 12 in BIOS mode
- Fix a regression that prevented the opening of .vhd images (#2309)
- Update UEFI:NTFS to report a more explicit error on bootmgr security issues
- Improve the search for conflicting processes, by running it in a background thread
- Improve support for Slax Linux (#2336)
Rufus 4.3 BETA
- Add support for symlink preservation when NTFS is used
- Add an exception to enforce NTFS for Linux Mint's LMDE
- Add an expert feature to restrict a Windows installation to S Mode
- Fix persistence support for Debian 12 in BIOS mode
- Fix a regression that prevented the opening of .vhd images (#2309)
- Update UEFI:NTFS to report a more explicit error on bootmgr security issues
- Improve the search for conflicting processes, by running it in a background thread
- Improve support for Slax Linux (#2336)
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