Rufus
Rufus Free
Rating (4.7)
Reviews: 351
Category: Utilities & tools
Rufus
Rufus
Rufus
Rufus

Description

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
• Official site: https://rufus.ie
• Source Code: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus
• ChangeLog: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/blob/master/ChangeLog.txt

  • Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3
  • Create FreeDOS bootable USB drives
  • Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
  • Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones
  • Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS
  • Create 'Windows To Go' drives
  • Create Windows 11 installation drives for PCs that don't have TPM or Secure Boot
  • Create persistent Linux partitions
  • Create VHD/DD images of the selected drive
  • Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums of the selected image
  • Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives
  • Download official Microsoft Windows retail ISOs
  • Download UEFI Shell ISOs
Product ID: 9PC3H3V7Q9CH
Release date: 2020-12-22
Last update: 2023-10-19