Rufus v2.0

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Rufus is a 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!

 

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. It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs.

 

Version 2.0 (2015.03.03)

• Major UI improvements (improved font, new info field, no separate progress dialog, etc.)
  
• Add support for Windows To Go (when Rufus is running on Windows 8 or later)
  
• Add support for Grub4DOS and GRUB 2 based images (e.g. FreeNAS)
  
• Add portable application support, through a 'rufus.ini' file
  
• Add native decompression support for DD images (.Z, .gz, .lzma, .bz2 and .xz)
  
• Add seamless UEFI boot of NTFS partitions, for Windows ISOs with large files (>4GB)
  
• Add support for Windows multipart 'install.swm'
  
• Add support for non-Microsoft VHD drivers
  
• Add Norwegian translation, courtesy of JED
  
• Fix a crash on image selection when no device is present
  
• Fix broken VHD support on non-English version of Windows
  
• Fix write error for DD images that are not a multiple of the sector size
  
• Fix broken Unicode support
  
• Update embedded Syslinux to 6.03
  
• Other improvements and fixes
  
• Update Windows version listing for Windows 10
  

 

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