Rufus is a program for formatting and creating bootable flash sticks, USB keys, and memory cards running Windows XP or later. Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need to create an installation flash stick with a bootable ISO image with various operating systems or DOS firmware.
The software formats and checks for damaged cells in USB sticks significantly faster than its counterparts. According to the program’s authors, Rufus is three times faster than the famous UNetbootin. It is possible to change the size of the partitions in the flash stick (Add Fixes for Old BIOSes in Format Options). If your computer is so old that it can’t detect a USB stick, this option often helps.
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Rufus can create bootable flash sticks for the following operating systems: Arch Linux, Archbang, BartPE / builder, CentOS, Damn Small Linux, Fedora, FreeDOS, Gentoo, gNewSense, Hiren’s Boot CD, LiveXP, Knoppix, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, NT Password Registry Editor, OpenSUSE, Parted Magic, Slackware, Tails, Trinity Rescue Kit, Ubuntu, Ultimate Boot CD, Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1. License: Free (GPLv3 ).
What’s new in New Version
- Add a mechanism to detect and download updated DBXs from the official UEFI repository
- Add ztsd compression support for disk images
- Add a new exclusion feature in the settings, to ignore disks with a specific GPT GUID
- Improve detection for compressed VHD images that are too large to fit the target drive
- Fix commandline hogger not being deleted when running Rufus from a different directory
- Fix FAT filenames from embedded images being potentially truncated on image extraction
- Fix a side-loading vulnerability [CVE-2025-26624] with cfgmgr32.dll (with thanks to @EmperialX)
- Fix UI memory leaks (courtesy of @ozone10)
- Fall back to user/system default locale when getting error description (courtesy of @Wack0)
- Don’t run the commandline hogger on POSIX shells
- Drop ARM 32-bit builds (Note that ARM 64-bit builds are NOT affected by this)
- Update FreeDOS and Grub4DOS to latest
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Size – 2 MB