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
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
- Evix reviewed Rufus
Many would say its better than official tools
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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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- English
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- 35,359 Stars
- 2,998 Forks
- 10 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.
Many would say its better than official tools
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.