Rufus

[tarekma7]

Rufus is a small 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!
 
Features:

- Formats USB flash drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT
- Creates DOS bootable USB drives, using FreeDOS or MS-DOS with no external files required
- Creates MBR or GPT/UEFI bootable USB drives
- Creates bootable USB drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
- Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO->USB (1)
- Can perform bad blocks check, with fake drive detection
- Modern and familiar UI, with 34 languages supported natively (2)
- Small footprint, no installation required
- 100% Free Software (GPL v3)
 
Compilation:

Use either Visual Studio 2012, WDK 7.1 (Windows Driver Kit) or MinGW and then invoke the .sln, wdk_build.cmd or configure/make respectively.
 
Additional information:

Rufus provides extensive information about what it is doing, either through its easily accessible log, or through the Windows debug facility.
 
What`s new:

Version 2.6 (2015.12.22)
- Add Serbian (Latin) translation, courtesy of Ivan Strugari
- Add a cheat mode to zero a device (Alt-Z)
- Fix dual BIOS/UEFI mode not being disabled once enabled (Alt-E)
- Fix a crash when Syslinux downloaded files are modified by a firewall
- Fix FAT32 not being disabled for Windows ISOs in BIOS/CSM mode
- Additional translation updates
 
Homepage

Changelog:    Here

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

Download page: http://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/
 
Download standalone:

http://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/rufus-2.6.exe
Or:
http://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/rufus.exe

Download portable:

http://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/rufus-2.6p.exe

[neutrinos]

Thanks for the good software  post

[tarekma7]

Rufus 2.7.855

2016-02-14

Changelog:
 
v2.7:

• Add Thai translation, courtesy of Sippapas Wangsri
  
  
  
• Add Drag and Drop support, courtesy of SeymourApps
  
  
  
• Add a retry for most write operations
  
  
  
• Update UEFI:NTFS, ms-sys and Grub4DOS to latest
  
  
  
• Dual sign Rufus with both SHA-1 and SHA-256
  
  
  
• Fix 2nd line of SHA-256 being hidden on some platforms
  
  
  
• Fix shutdown prevention issues
  
  
  
• Additional fixes & translation updates
  
  
  

 
Changelog

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