Rufus is a powerful utility tool for creating portable bootable versions of operating systems on USB flash. Rufus supports all types of USB and can format the connected devices and create media installation from ISO files. Rufus does not need setup, just download it, insert your storage device (USB) and start creating bootable USB flash drives.
Rufus Features
- Create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
- How to use Rufus to create bootable USB
- To learn more about the difference between GPT & MBR
- Work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
- Flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
- Run a low-level utility
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Rufus Release Notes
- [Add] Rock Ridge deep directory support.
- [Add] an option to write small ISOs to an ESP (GPT only).
- [Add] a cheat mode (Ctrl-SELECT) to extract content from an additional zip archive on top of the ISO.
- [Add] a cheat mode (Alt-G) to disable Virtual Hard Disk listing.
- [Add] a cheat mode (Alt-P) to toggle a GPT ESP to Basic Data (Windows 10 only).
- [Fix] improper x86 32-bit NTFS driver being used for UEFI:NTFS.
- [Improve] UEFI:NTFS compatibility with older UEFI firmwares.
- [Improve] startup time by running the ISO download feature check in the background.
- [Remove] Ubuntu's splash screen for persistent UEFI drives.
- [Enable] ASLR for the Rufus executable.