Rufus is a small utility that helps format and creates bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/ pen-drives, memory sticks, et


It can be especially useful for cases where

you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs -Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc

you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed

you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS

you want to run a low-level utility

Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need


Features

Formats USB flash drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT

Creates DOS bootable USB drives, using FreeDOS or MS-DOS with no external files required

Creates MBR or GPT/UEFI bootable USB drives

Creates bootable USB drives from bootable ISOs -Windows, Linux, etc

Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO->USB

Can perform bad blocks check, with fake drive detection

Modern and familiar UI, with 34 languages supported natively

Small footprint, no installation required

100% Free Software -GPL v3


Compilation

Use either Visual Studio 2012, WDK 7.1 (Windows Driver Kit) or MinGW and then

invoke the .sln, wdk_build.cmd or configure/make respectively


Additional information

Rufus provides extensive information about what it is doing, either through

its easily accessible log, or through the Windows debug facility

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