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Rufus Complete Download and Install Guide

Official Overview

Rufus is a top rated small easy tool to create bootable USB drives from Pete Batard. Great for making bootable operating system from ISO file (IMG). It is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. It helps in the following conditions:

• Creating USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
• Flashing a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
• Working on a system that doesn’t have an OS installed
• Runing a low-level utility

Key Features

• Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS
• Create DOS bootable USB drives, using FreeDOS or MS-DOS (Windows 8.1 or earlier)
• Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS
• Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
• Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones
• Create Windows To Go drives
• Compute MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 checksums of the selected image
• Twice as fast as Microsoft’s USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO -> USB creation (1)
• Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of “fake” flash drives
• Modern and familiar UI, with 39 languages natively supported
• Small footprint. No installation required.
• Portable

Supported Languages:

Azərbaycanca , 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 , فارسی.

How to Use Rufus

1- Download the executable and run it – no installation is necessary.

# The executable is digitally signed and the signature should state:

“Akeo Consulting” (v1.3.0 or later)
“Pete Batard – Open Source Developer” (v1.2.0 or earlier)

2- Notes on DOS support:

If you create a DOS bootable drive and use a non-US keyboard, Rufus will attempt to select a keyboard layout according to the locale of your system. In that case, FreeDOS, which is the default selection, is recommended over MS-DOS, as it supports more keyboard layouts.

3- Notes on ISO Support:

All versions of Rufus since v1.1.0 allow the creation of a bootable USB from an ISO image (.iso).

Creating an ISO image from a physical disc or from a set of files is very easy to do however, through the use of a CD burning application, such as the freely available CDBurnerXP or ImgBurn.

4- Notes on UEFI & GPT support:

Since version 1.3.2, Rufus support UEFI as well as GPT for installation media, meaning that it will allow you to install Windows 7, Windows 8 or Linux in full EFI mode.
However, Windows Vista or later is required for full UEFI/GPT support. Because of OS limitations, Windows XP restricts the creation of UEFI bootable drives to MBR mode.