Rufus
Developer: Pete Batard
- Reviews
- 4 / 468
- Downloads
- 926,965
Downloads
Downloads are available on Rufus’s official website.
Rufus at a glance
- What it is
- Formats USB flash drives and creates bootable ones
- Price
- Free
- Open source
- Yes
- Licence
- GPL-3.0-or-later
- Made by
- Pete Batard
- Runs on
- Windows
- Official website
- rufus.ie
- Source code
- github.com/pbatard/rufus
- Check your download
- Executables are code-signed (digital signature stating Akeo Consulting); no checksums listed
- Alternatives
- UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer and RMPrepUSB
Change Log
Rufus 4.14 adds Windows user-experience options for setup customization and silent installation workflows.
The release adds support for copying SkuSiPolicy.p7b to the EFI system partition during installation.
It also improves tooltips, revoked UEFI bootloader checks, ReactOS boot media support, and compressed VHD handling.
Description
Rufus is a free, open-source tool that will help you to format and create bootable USB devices such as flash drives, pen drives, memory sticks, etc.
The most common cases for Rufus are when you need to create a USB installation media from a bootable image (disk image of an optical disc), work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed, run a low-level utility, or flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS.
You can download Rufus from its official homepage here.
Note: You need Microsoft Windows 8 or later (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions will work) to run Rufus. If you need help, you can access the FAQ section here. To report an issue you can use the GitHub issue tracker or attempt to get in touch with the author.
Rufus is a small but powerful utility.
It also has an extensive list of supported ISOs, to name a few: Microsoft Windows, popular Linux distros (Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, Debian etc.), custom programs (GParted, Hiren's Boot CD) and even some other operating systems such as ReactOS. The entire updated list can be found at the bottom of the official site under "Non exhaustive list of ISOs Rufus is known to work with."
