Rufus v4.6
lwc on 21 Oct 2024 Change history
- 1MB (uncompressed)
- Released on 21 Oct 2024
- Suggested by I am Baas
Rufus, or Reliable USB Formatting Utility (with Source), is a small and fast utility that helps create bootable external drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks etc. The program is ideal for use with installation media from ISOs (Windows, Linux etc.) for working on a system without an OS, flashing device BIOS or other firmware, or you want to run a low-level system utility.
Rufus Portable (currently outdated) also available.
| Category: | |
| Runs on: | Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | GNU GPLv3 |
| How to extract: | Download the "Portable" rufus-X.Xp.exe to a folder of your choice and launch. |
| What's new? | See: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases |
14 comments on Rufus
Midas
2022-07-10 12:17
@PapaiMark: as there is both a changelog link and a dedicated forum thread, changes info like what you posted are better suited for the later, thus avoiding drowning any user comments in the steady stream of updates.
v3.19
PapaiMark
2022-07-02 20:15
Use v 2.x on machines older than 2011 (core, core2, quad) to make bootable usb.
Version 3.19 changelog (2022.07.01) :
Add a new selection dialog for Windows 11 setup customization:
Secure Boot and TPM bypass have now been moved to this dialog
Also allows to bypass the mandatory requirement for a Microsoft account on Windows 11 22H2
(NB: Network MUST be temporarily disabled for the local account creation to be proposed)
Also add an option to skip all collection questions (Sets all answers to "Don't allow")
Also add an option for setting internal drives offline for Windows To Go
Note: These customization options are only proposed when using a Windows 11 image.
Add support for distros using a nonstandard GRUB 2.0 prefix directory (openSUSE Live, GeckoLinux)
Add the ability to ignore USBs (See here)
Change drive listing to always list in increasing order of size
Update exceptions needed by Red Hat and derivatives for the 9.x releases
Update UEFI:NTFS drivers to latest
Reassign a letter for drives written in DD mode that don't have an ESP (e.g. CoreELEC)
Fix Windows refusing to mount Linux MBR partitions on FIXED drives
Fix support for multiextent files when Joliet is in use
v3.19
TP109
2017-11-12 17:02
Great program. Small footprint and quick. Good tool for formatting USB drives and for making USB drives bootable with ISOs or DOS.
v2.18
stisev
2017-03-27 12:55
FYI I logged in to post this
The "p" in the rufus executible name makes it portable; otherwise, it writes to reg.
For example:
rufus-2.12p.exe is portable
rufus-2.12.exe is not.
Was driving me insane finding reg keys.. :)
v2.12
smaragdus
2015-08-29 13:01
I don't know whether Rufus is portable or not but I am certain that 'rufus-X.X.exe' and 'rufus-X.Xp.exe' are exactly the same. By the way, there is a new version- Rufus 2.3.709.
v2.2.668
jenss
2014-11-05 08:17
version 1.4.11 is out here
homepage :
http://rufus.akeo.ie/
get the file :
http://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/rufus-1.4.11.exe
v1.4.10
I am Baas
2013-01-03 00:06
Version 1.3.0 writes to the registry. See forum entry for details.
v1.3.0
Rufus 3.22 is the last version that can run on Windows 7
v3.22