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 4.4.2103 :
- Add workaround for distros that use broken symbolic links as their UEFI bootloaders (such as Mint 21.3)
- Add support for GRUB 2.12
- Fix a crash when saving .ffu images
- Fix UEFI:NTFS partition not being added, in MBR mode, for some Linux ISOs
- Prevent Microsoft Dev Drives from being listed
- Improve support for SDXC card readers
- Improve Large FAT32 formatting by aligning start of data regions to 1 MB (courtesy of Fred)
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