Rufus

Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. Oh, and Rufus is quick.
It may be particularly helpful for circumstances the place:

It is advisable create USB set up media from bootable ISOs (Home windows, Linux, UEFI, and many others.)
It is advisable work on a system that does not have an OS put in
It is advisable flash a BIOS or different firmware from DOS
You need to run a low-level utility

Regardless of its small measurement, Rufus supplies every thing you want.

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Can Rufus create each BIOS and UEFI bootable drives?

Sure, Rufus helps creating bootable USB drives for each conventional BIOS and trendy UEFI methods, making it versatile for various PC setups.

What working methods can Rufus run on?

Rufus works on Home windows (Home windows 7 and later). Nonetheless, the USB drives it creates can be utilized besides and set up numerous working methods, together with Home windows, Linux distributions, and extra.

Do I want to put in Rufus?

No set up is required. Rufus is a transportable application-you merely obtain the .exe file and run it immediately.

Can Rufus verify if my USB drive has unhealthy sectors?

Sure, Rufus consists of an choice to scan your USB drive for unhealthy blocks earlier than making a bootable disk. This helps guarantee reliability and reduces the possibility of set up errors.

Does Rufus work with out an web connection?

Sure, As soon as you’ve got downloaded Rufus, you need to use it offline to create bootable drives. The one time it’s possible you’ll want web entry is that if Rufus provides to obtain sure information (like the most recent Home windows ISO) immediately for you.

Non-exhaustive listing of ISOs Rufus is understood to work with:

AlmaLinux, Arch Linux, Archboot, CentOS, Clonezilla, Rattling Small Linux, Debian, Elementary OS, Fedora, FreeDOS, Garuda Linux, Gentoo, GParted, Hiren’s Boot CD, Kali Linux, Knoppix, KolibriOS, Linux Mint, Manjaro Linux, NT Password Registry Editor, OpenSUSE, Raspberry Pi OS, Raspbian, ReactOS, Pink Hat, rEFInd, Rocky Linux, Slackware, Tremendous Grub2 Disk, Tails, Trinity Rescue Equipment, TrueNAS CORE, Ubuntu, UEFI Shell, Final Boot CD, Home windows XP (SP2+), Home windows Vista, Home windows 7, Home windows 8/8.1, Home windows 10, Home windows Server 2019, Home windows 11.

What’s New

Rufus 4.15

Add RISC-V 64 help to UEFI:NTFS.
Enhance the guards for utilizing the “silent” Home windows set up choice.
Enhance the flexibility to cancel throughout write retries.
Enhance progress reporting for compressed picture extraction.
Repair unrestricted XML entity growth and integer overflow in ezxml parser (courtesy of Eric Sadowski).
Repair “silent” Home windows set up failing at 75% normally.
Repair a crash throughout boot when utilizing UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X primarily based ARM64 platforms.
Repair first WUE choice all the time being checked by default.
Repair an infinite loop when utilizing Home windows ISOs that comprise a number of WIMs.
Repair “Allow runtime UEFI media validation” checkbox not all the time being correctly enabled.
Different WUE enhancements/fixes for OneDrive removing and username validation (with because of @christian8641).

Rufus 4.14 Changelog

Home windows Consumer Expertise enhancements:
- Add a High quality of Life choice, to disable Groups, Outlook, Copilot and different Microsoft compelled nuisances
- Add a Silent set up choice, that mechanically, and WITHOUT PROMPT, installs Home windows on the primary detected disk
- Add an choice to repeat SkuSiPolicy.p7b to the ESP on set up (please confer with KB5042562 for more information)
- Add tooltips for all of the dialog choices
Add restricted help for El-Torito UEFI picture extraction (Largely for Dell BIOS replace ISOs)
Enhance error report when the consumer tries to make use of a picture that resides on the goal drive
Enhance the UEFI:NTFS partition label to make the set up media extra express throughout Home windows Setup disk partitioning
Enhance help for Bazzite and different Fedora derivatives that do not observe EFI conventions
Enhance detection and exclusion of the brand new Bitdefender hidden VHDs
Enhance reporting of GRUB and Isolinux MBRs
Repair potential errors throughout creation of Home windows To Go media, attributable to using new variations of bcdboot
Repair errors with native accounts that begin or finish with whitespaces

Rufus 4.13 Changelog

Repair UEFI:NTFS not choosing the proper driver for ARM/ARM64.
Replace embedded GRUB to v2.14.

Rufus 4.12 Changelog

Filter out the brand new Bitdefender VHDs.
Filter disallowed characters in native account names.
Enhance Microsoft Dev Drive detection (courtesy of Martin Kuschnik).
Enhance the pre-formatting partition cleanup code.
Enhance error reporting on ISO extraction points.
Enhance detection of drives with lengthy {hardware} IDs (usually SSDs).
Enhance conflicting course of reporting.
Enhance help for Nutanix and umbrelOS ISOs.
Repair a TOCTOU vulnerability in Fido script execution (CVE-2026-2398, reported by @independent-arg).
Repair alternative vulnerabilities for diskcopy.dll and oscdimg.exe.
Repair FFU picture creation being erroneously invocated, when making an attempt to avoid wasting an ISO picture.
Repair saving of ISO photographs to paths that comprise areas.
Replace UEFI:NTFS and UEFI DBXs to newest.

Rufus 4.11 Changelog:

Add a cheat mode to toggle between Mild and Darkish mode.
Enhance WUE choice textual content referring to the CA 2023 choice.
For more information on CA 2023, see this Rufus FAQ entry.
Replace Linux SBAT / Microsoft SVN Safe Boot revocation values to newest.
Repair some GRUB/Syslinux obtain dialogs exhibiting solely the ‘Shut’ button.
Repair an assert being triggered when utilizing the WUE CA 2023 choice by itself.
Repair an software crash on methods which have a failed dynamic disk.

Rufus 4.10 Changelog:

Add Darkish Mode help (courtesy of @ozone10).
Add help for creating Home windows CA 2023 appropriate media (requires a Home windows 11 25H2 ISO). For extra on this, see this Rufus FAQ entry.
Add help for saving an present drive to ISO (UDF solely).
Enhance error reporting when saving to VHD/VHDX (with because of @Kazkans).
Enhance persistence help for Linux Mint.
Repair UEFI DBX updates being reported in some timezones, even when there are none.
Repair a state of affairs the place no file system will be chosen in ISO mode.
Repair a crash when making an attempt to course of Home windows ISOs with very lengthy paths.

Rufus 4.9 Changelog:

Repair downloads from not working attributable to latest GitHub server modifications
Repair unofficial Home windows ISOs, with single index WIMs, not presenting the WUE dialog
Change to wimlib for all WIM picture processing:
- Enormously quickens picture evaluation when opening Home windows ISOs
- Can velocity up Home windows To Go drive creation (However will not do miracles when you have a crap drive)
- Would possibly assist with Parallels limitations on Mac (However Rufus on Parallels continues to be unsupported)
- Permits the splitting of >4GB information with Alt-E (However nonetheless WAY SLOWER than utilizing UEFI:NTFS)
Change to utilizing Visible Studio binaries in all places, attributable to MinGW DLL delay-loading limitations
Add extra exceptions for Linux ISOs that limit themselves to DD mode (Nobara, openSUSE, …)
Enhance reporting of UEFI bootloaders within the log, with data on the Safe Boot standing
Repair a difficulty with measurement limitations when writing an uncompressed VHD again to the identical drive
Repair a crash when opening the log with the 32-bit MinGW compiled model
Repair commandline parameters not being forwarded to unique Home windows setup.exe

Rufus 4.7 Changelog

Add a mechanism to detect and obtain up to date DBXs from the official UEFI repository
Add ztsd compression help for disk photographs
Add a brand new exclusion characteristic within the settings, to disregard disks with a selected GPT GUID
Enhance detection for compressed VHD photographs which are too massive to suit the goal drive
Repair commandline hogger not being deleted when operating Rufus from a special listing
Repair FAT filenames from embedded photographs being probably truncated on picture extraction
Repair a side-loading vulnerability [CVE-2025-26624] with cfgmgr32.dll (with because of @EmperialX)
Repair UI reminiscence leaks (courtesy of @ozone10)
Fall again to consumer/system default locale when getting error description (courtesy of @Wack0)
Do not run the commandline hogger on POSIX shells
Drop ARM 32-bit builds (Notice that ARM 64-bit builds are NOT affected by this)
Replace FreeDOS and Grub4DOS to newest

Rufus 4.6 Changelog

Add a brand new setup.exe wrapper to bypass Home windows 11 24H2 in-place improve restrictions
Add TimeZone to regional choices replication
Set native account passwords to not expire by default
Repair an error when making an attempt to write down compressed VHD photographs
Repair an error when invoking Rufus from the PowerShell commandline
Enhance revoked UEFI bootloaders verify to help Linux SBAT, Home windows SVN and cert DBX
Enhance help for ReactOS boot media

Rufus 4.4 launch notes:

Add workaround for distros that use damaged symbolic hyperlinks as their UEFI bootloaders (equivalent to Mint 21.3)
Add help for GRUB 2.12
Repair a crash when saving .ffu photographs
Repair UEFI:NTFS partition not being added, in MBR mode, for some Linux ISOs
Stop Microsoft Dev Drives from being listed
Enhance help for SDXC card readers
Enhance Massive FAT32 formatting by aligning begin of information areas to 1 MB (courtesy of Fred)

Rufus 4.3 launch notes:

Add help for Rock Ridge symbolic hyperlinks preservation when NTFS is used
Add an exception to implement NTFS for Linux Mint’s LMDE
Add an professional characteristic to limit a Home windows set up to S Mode
Repair persistence help for Debian 12 when booted in BIOS mode
Repair a regression that prevented the opening of .vhd photographs
Replace UEFI:NTFS to report a extra express error on bootmgr safety points
Enhance the seek for conflicting processes by operating it in a background thread
Enhance help for Slax Linux