Rufus is an utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. Rufus provides everything you need for creating an USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.) to work on a system that doesn’t have an OS installed. It’s really useful when you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS or you want to run a low-level utility
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. It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs.
Supported Languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Български, Deutsch, Ελληνικά, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Lietuvių, Magyar, Nederlands, Polski, Português, Русский, Română, Slovenščina, Suomi, Türkçe, 简体中文, 正體中文, 한국어.
System Requirements: Windows XP or later, 32 or 64 bit.
Notes on DOS support:
If you create a DOS bootable drive and use a non-US keyboard, Rufus will attempt to select a keyboard layout according to the locale of your system. In that case, FreeDOS, which is the default selection, is recommended over MS-DOS, as it supports more keyboard layouts.
Notes on ISO Support:
All versions of Rufus since v1.1.0 allow the creation of a bootable USB from an ISO image (.iso).
Creating an ISO image from a physical disc or from a set of files is very easy to do however, through the use of a CD burning application, such as the freely available CDBurnerXP or ImgBurn.
Notes on UEFI & GPT support:
Since version 1.3.2, Rufus support UEFI as well as GPT for installation media, meaning that it will allow you to install Windows 7, Windows 8 or Linux in full EFI mode.
However, Windows Vista or later is required for full UEFI/GPT support. Because of OS limitations, Windows XP restricts the creation of UEFI bootable drives to MBR mode.
Changes Version 2.1 (2015.03.23)
- Add 32 bit support for UEFI:NTFS boot
- Add standalone UEFI:NTFS boot installation, in advanced mode
- Add Vietnamese translation, courtesy of thanhtai2009
- Disable support for ISOs that hide their GRUB version (looking at you Kaspersky!)
- Fix broken Windows UEFI installation when using GPT/NTFS (#461)
- Fix creation of 32 bit UEFI Windows 10 installation flash drives (#462)
- Other improvements (Notify when no update is available on manual check, add label for UEFI:NTFS partition, etc.)
Homepage – http://rufus.akeo.ie/
Download Rufus 2.1 (616 KB)
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