Rufus is a small utility that helps format and creates bootable USB flash drives, reminiscent of USB keys/pen drives, memory sticks, etc. It is considerably quicker than comparable utilities and it’s open-source and free. All versions of Rufus allow the creation of a bootable USB from an ISO image.
Use Rufus, especially for cases to:
- Create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.).
- Work on a system that doesn’t have an OS installed.
- Run a low-level utility.
- Flash a BIOS or different firmware from DOS.
Creating an ISO image from a physical disc or a set of files could be very simple, nonetheless, using a CD burning application, such as the free CDBurnerXP or ImgBurn.
The Portable is a USB formatting utility that can create a bootable USB drive using a bootable ISO image. This app requires admin rights. Despite its small size, Rufus provides every part you want!
Rufus is quick. On occasion, it’s about twice as quick as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer, or the Windows 7 USB download tool when creating a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO. It can be marginally sooner when creating Linux bootable USBs from ISOs.
Rufus supports UEFI and GPT for installation media, allowing you to install Windows 7, 8, or Linux in full EFI mode.
However, full UEFI/GPT support requires Windows Vista or later. Because of OS limitations, Windows XP restricts the creation of UEFI bootable drives to MBR mode.
Supported Languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech. Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, and Hungarian. Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, and Persian. Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin). Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Changes in Rufus Version 4.6 :
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 8 or later, 32 or 64-bit doesn’t matter.
