Published July 20, 2016 by Download Software
Rufus is an utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
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
Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need!
Rufus is fast 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.
System Requirements:
- Operating System: Windows All Version
- Language: English-US
- License: Freeware
- Author: Pete Batard/Akeo
Changelog:
- Add SHA-256 validation for downloaded files. You will now see an ? or ? in the log for relevant content
- Add support for O2Micro PCI-E card reader
- Add compressed NTFS support for UEFI:NTFS
- Improve automatic closure of the Windows default format prompt
- Improve support for Ubuntu (silence a benign warning), Springdale (use the actual label) and Antergos (Syslinux version detection)
- Work around a Windows bug that can render a GPT disk inaccessible after cleanup (e.g. ChromeOS image)
- Fix hash computation for content that isn't a multiple of 64 bytes (NB: This did not affect ISOs)
- Fix Syslinux installation on some media, with huge thanks to 424778940z for the tests
- Fix a corner case where settings could be altered after Start had been pressed, if a hotplug event also occurred
- Additional fixes and improvements
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