Rufus is 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 can create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.), work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed and flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS - You want to run a low-level utility.
Changes in 4.6.2208:
- 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
Download | Portable
Download | Beta
Download | Build 3.22 (Last Windows 7 compatible)
