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Rufus v4.6

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. (1)
A non exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISOs is also provided at the bottom of this page. (2)

System Requirements:
Windows 7 or later, 32 or 64 bit

Download the executable and run it – no installation is necessary.
The executable is digitally signed and the signature should state:
• "Akeo Consulting" (v1.3.0 or later)
• "Pete Batard - Open Source Developer" (v1.2.0 or earlier)

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.

Non exhaustive list of ISOs Rufus is known to work with.
AlmaLinux
Arch Linux
Archboot
CentOS
Clonezilla
Damn Small Linux
Debian
Elementary OS
Fedora
FreeDOS
Garuda Linux
Gentoo
GParted
Hiren's Boot CD
Kali Linux
Knoppix
KolibriOS
Linux Mint
Manjaro Linux
NT Password Registry Editor
OpenSUSE
Raspberry Pi OS
Raspbian
Red Hat
rEFInd
Rocky Linux
Slackware
Super Grub2 Disk
Tails
Trinity Rescue Kit
TrueNAS CORE
Ubuntu
UEFI Shell
Ultimate Boot CD
Windows XP (SP2+)
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8/8.1
Windows 10
Windows Server 2019
Windows 11

Changelog:
v4.6 (2024.10.21)
Add a new setup.exe wrapper to bypass Windows 11 24H2 in-place upgrade restrictions
Add TimeZone to regional options replication
Set local account passwords to not expire by default
Fix an error when trying to write compressed VHD images
Fix an error when invoking Rufus from the PowerShell commandline
Improve revoked UEFI bootloaders check to support Linux SBAT, Windows SVN and cert DBX
Improve support for ReactOS boot media







This download is for the Windows portable version. All other download assets are below:

Windows 64bit installer
Windows 32bit installer
Windows ARM64bit installer
Windows ARM32bit installer



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Downloads Views Developer Last Update Version Size Type Rank
10,327 31,910 Pete Batard/Akeo <img src="https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/gallery/thumbs/Rufus1_th.png"border="0"> Oct 22, 2024 - 10:55 4.6 1.55MB EXE 5/5, out of 66 Votes.
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