Rufus
Formats USB drives to FAT, NTFS, exFAT, and more, while creating bootable USBs from diverse ISOs. Supports MS-DOS/FreeDOS with no external files and offers BIOS or UEFI mode, including bad block check. Ideal for systems lacking an OS or flashing BIOS and lightweight, ad-free.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Optimal performance
- Privacy focused
- User friendly
Features
- Create bootable USB
- Portable
- Burn iso
- Windows To Go
- UEFI Support
- Write ISO to SD card
- Create bootable Image
- Create BIOS bootable drive
- Create UEFI bootable drive
- GNU/linux-libre
- USB to FAT
- USB to NTFS
- Install DOS to USB
- Bad Blocks checking
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- Drive formating
- Support for UDF extension
- USB to UDF
Tags
- dos
- NTFS
- fat32
- usb-formatting
- iso
- freedos
- refs
- bios
- efi
- flash
- usb-boot
- fat
- bootable-iso
- detect-image-format
- exfat
Rufus News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Rufus
Rufus 4.10 finally adds a dark mode & updates Windows certificate support for Secure BootRufus 4.10 brings several user-focused enhancements and technical improvements to this popular util...
- POX published news article about Rufus
USB formatting utility Rufus just got a lot faster with its latest version 4.8Rufus 4.8 introduces a major technical change by adopting wimlib for all Windows Imaging Format (WI...
- POX published news article about Rufus
Rufus 4.6 beta can now bypass Windows 11 24H2 in-place upgrade restrictionsRufus has released version 4.6 beta, introducing several enhancements to its widely-used USB format...
Recent activities
- hypremacy updated Rufus
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What is Rufus?
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
Features:
- Formats USB memory sticks to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/exFAT/UDF/ReFS
- Creates bootable USB drive from a wide range of ISOs
- Creates MS-DOS/FreeDOS bootable USB memory sticks, with no external files required
- Creates BIOS or UEFI bootable drives
- Checks for bad blocks
- Modern UI, with UAC elevation for Windows Vista and later
- Fully Open Source (GPL v3)
It can be be especially useful for cases where:
- you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
- you need to install an Operating System or run a Live CD from USB
- you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
- you want to run a DOS low-level utility
Despite its small size, Rufus provides you with everything you need!
Rufus information
Developed by
Akeo Consulting Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.6Alternatives
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6 news article related to RufusSupported Languages
- English
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- 2,913 Forks
- 7 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Pros:
Cons:
completely bricked the usb drive i was trying to use
These reports aren't isolated. BUT, the drive isn't actually broken; it's a rare error with the partition table. Open Disk Management, find your flash drive, and delete all volumes on it. Then create a simple volume there. And let me know if it helped. If not, I can suggest an even more effective method.
We need Rufus for linux!
The issue with network activity has been fixed. Otherwise the program is good.
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues/2781#issuecomment-3133363222
It's a Windows-only certificate check. No user data is sent, no analytics.
My savior for years. Has advanced functionality. is a solution for every flash
Simple, straight forward, easy to make bootable usbs. The only thing I dislike is in their latest update the iso download feature was removed specifically if you are on windows 7 but if you're on win 8, 8.1, 10, or 11 it's there. I don't think it's right to remove a feature specifically for one os to be a form of attempt to encourage people to upgrade their windows.
On Windows, Rufus is my go-to for making bootable USB sticks. There have been times the Microsoft Media USB Creation tool have failed, with afterwards Rufus doing the trick