Rufus v3.0 - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

[Arthur]

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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 3.0 (2018.05.29)

 

• UI redesign to follow the flow of user operations (with thanks to Fahad Al-Riyami for the concept)
  
• Drop Windows XP and Windows Vista platform support
  
• Switch all downloads to SSL and use https://rufus.ie as the new base URL
  
• Add ARM64 support for UEFI:NTFS
  
• Fix delays when querying floppy drives during device enumeration
  
• Improve support of efi.img files on Linux ISOs
  
• Improve support for non-ISO9660 compliant openSUSE Leap ISOs
  
• Improve translation support and remove manual positioning
  
• Internal fixes and improvements
  

Note: This version is not compatible with Windows XP or Windows Vista.

 

[MartinT]

I like Rufus. Very useful.

[DJ-1701]

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[Arthur]

Rufus v3.5 can now download Windows ISOs within the app itself. 👍

 

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Version 3.5 (2019.03.28)

• Add a feature to download official retail Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 ISOs
  
• (Note: 'Check for updates' must be enabled for the above to be active)
  
• Add Windows To Go support for MCT generated Windows ISOs
  
• Add a notice about the WppRecorder.sys Microsoft bug for Windows 10 1809 ISOs
  
• Add a notice about trying to format a drive larger than 2 TB in MBR mode
  
• Add a notice about Legacy boot when trying to boot UEFI-only media in Legacy mode
  
• Report the full PID and command line of potentially blocking processes in the log
  
• Fix a potential silent abort when the drive is in use
  
• Fix 'Quick Format' option always being activated
  
• Fix potential change of the selected file system after an ISO has been loaded
  
• Fix Win7 x64 EFI bootloader not being extracted in dual BIOS+UEFI mode (Alt-E)
  

 

Edited March 28, 2019 by Arthur