Create bootable USB drives easily with Rufus

[tarekma7]

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 need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
you want to run a low-level utility
Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need!

Rufus is fast. For instance it's about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO. It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs

The following tests were carried out on a Windows 7 x64 Core 2 duo/4 GB RAM platform, with an USB 3.0 controller and a 16 GB USB 3.0 ADATA S102 flash drive.



DOWNLOAD:

Last updated 2020.02.29:

• Rufus 3.9 (1.1 MB)
  
  
• Rufus 3.9 Portable (1.1 MB)
  
  
• Other versions (GitHub)
  
  
• Other versions (FossHub)
  

Supported Languages:

Bahasa Indonesia , Bahasa Malaysia , Български , Čeština , Dansk , Deutsch , Ελληνικά , English , Español , Français , Hrvatski , Italiano , Latviešu , Lietuvių , Magyar , Nederlands , Norsk , Polski , Português , Português do Brasil , Русский , Română , Slovensky , Slovenščina , Srpski , Suomi , Svenska , Tiếng Việt , Türkçe , Українська , 简体中文 , 正體中文 , 日本語 , 한국어 , ไทย , עברית , العربية , پارسی .

System Requirements:

Windows 7 or later, 32 or 64 bit doesn't matter. Once downloaded, the application is ready to use.
I will take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the translators who made it possible for Rufus, as well as this webpage, to be translated in various languages. If you find that you can use Rufus in your own language, you should really thank them!

Usage

Download the executable and run it – no installation is necessary. The executable is digitally signed

Non exhaustive list of ISOs Rufus is known to work with

Arch Linux , Archbang , BartPE/pebuilder , CentOS , Damn Small Linux , Debian , Fedora , FreeDOS ,
FreeNAS , Gentoo , GParted , gNewSense , Hiren's Boot CD , LiveXP , Knoppix , KolibriOS , Kubuntu ,
Linux Mint , NT Password Registry Editor , Parted Magic , Partition Wizard , Raspbian ,
ReactOS , Red Hat , rEFInd , Slackware , Super Grub2 Disk , Tails , Trinity Rescue Kit , Ubuntu ,
Ultimate Boot CD , Windows XP (SP2+) , Windows Vista , Windows Server 2008 , Windows 7 ,
Windows 8 , Windows 8.1 , Windows Server 2012 , Windows 10 , Windows Server 2016 , …

Changelog:

Version 3.9 (2020.02.29)
Add exFAT support when creating blank UEFI:NTFS drives [EXPERIMENTAL]
Fix ext2/ext3 corruption for partitions larger than 4 GB
Fix early boot files not being usable on compressed NTFS partitions
Fix writing of compressed streams that don't end on sector boundary
Fix percent not being displayed on slow format
Improve file preallocation and speed up ISO extraction (courtesy of Mattiwatti)
Improve ext2/ext3 formatting speed
Improve protective MBR message for GPT partitioned drives
Improve reporting of Syslinux/GRUB download errors
Improve reporting of partition types and of Windows' version
Report the usage of UDF symbolic links
Update embedded Syslinux to 6.04-pre1

FAQ:

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ

Incompatible Software:

• ASUS USB 3.0 Boost Storage Driver
  
• Avira Antivirus
  
• Bit Defender Client Security
  
• Windows Defender's Controlled Folder Access
  
• Defraggler
  
• ESET Anti Virus, if device control is enabled.
  
• Explorer++
  
• Ext2Fsd Only intermittently, as reported by a user.
  
• G DATA Antivirus, when behavior monitor is enabled.
  
• Genie Timeline Backup Pro
  
• IObit MalwareFighter (seems to use BitDefender Engine)
  
• MBR Filter
  
• Open Hardware Monitor
  
• Panda USB vaccine
  
• Paragon ExtFS for Windows / Paragon HFS+ for Windows
  
• RealPlayer Cloud
  
• Sophos Antivirus if you have Peripheral Control Policy set to disable access to USB storage devices.
  
• Sophos Endpoint Protection
  
• Sophos Intercept-X (Starting to get the trend yet? In short: Don't use Sophos)
  
• Trend Micro OfficeScan and some other versions of Trend Anti Virus.
  
• USB Drive Letter Manager (USBLDM)
  
• Windows' ReadyBoost (if enabled on the drive you are trying to format)
  

How to use Rufus to install Windows 10 (UEFI and Legacy BIOS):

[Sasha]

Thanks for the description, Tarek. I have been using UltraISO for many years.