Rufus v1.3.2

Checker on 28 Jan 2013

Rufus - Reliable USB Formatting Utility (with Source), is a small and fast utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. The program is useful for creating USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.), working on a system without an OS, flashing BIOS or other firmware from DOS, or you want to run a low-level utility. Functional on 64-bit systems.

Alternatively, Rufus Portable is also available.

Category:
System Requirements: WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Stores "Check for Updates" settings in the registry.
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Stealth: ? No. See forum thread for a workaround.
License: GPL (GPLv3)
How to extract: Download rufus_vx.x.x.exe to a folder of your choice and launch.
What's new?
  • Fix support for newer ArchLinux ISOs, that was removed in 1.3.1
  • Add support for UEFI boot, as well as GPT.
  • What this means is that Rufus can now produce UEFI bootable UFDs from EFI compatible ISOs, such as Windows 7 x64, Windows 8, ArchLinux, etc.
  • The first partition is now always aligned to 1MB (unless advanced options are used)
  • Internal refactoring and fixes

5 comments on Rufus  The Portable Freeware Collection Latest Entries Feed

donald 2012-03-05 18:45

This worked Very quickly with the distro I chose and no difficulties.
Much faster than some OTHERS - LIVE USB CREATORS.

V1.1.4.150

lostbumpkin 2012-06-05 17:48

Agree with that. Excellent tool to create bootable usbs.

V1.2.0.183

webfork 2012-07-30 01:43

Had some odd issues with Lili USB Creator (for some reason couldn't format a drive) that this program seemed to overcome. Good program.

V1.2.0.183

Rejjy13 2012-12-28 21:55

Impressive application! I used it for Ubuntu, Windows 8 and Windows 7.

v1.3.0

I am Baas 2013-01-03 00:06

Version 1.3.0 writes to the registry. See forum entry for details.

v1.3.0

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