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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 instances the place:
- You’ll want to create USB set up media from bootable ISOs (Home windows, Linux, UEFI, and so on.)
- You’ll want to work on a system that does not have an OS put in
- You’ll want to flash a BIOS or different firmware from DOS
- You wish to run a low-level utility
Regardless of its small measurement, Rufus offers every part you want.
Non-exhaustive checklist 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 Package, 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
- Change to wimlib for all WIM picture processing:
- Enormously quickens picture evaluation when opening Home windows ISOs
- Can pace up Home windows To Go drive creation (However will not do miracles when you’ve got a crap drive)
- May assist with Parallels limitations on Mac (However Rufus on Parallels continues to be unsupported)
- Allows the splitting of >4GB information with Alt-E (However nonetheless WAY SLOWER than utilizing UEFI:NTFS)
- Change to utilizing Visible Studio binaries all over the place, resulting from 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 information 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 authentic 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 particular GPT GUID
- Enhance detection for compressed VHD photographs which can be too massive to suit the goal drive
- Repair commandline hogger not being deleted when working Rufus from a special listing
- Repair FAT filenames from embedded photographs being doubtlessly truncated on picture extraction
- Repair a side-loading vulnerability [CVE-2025-26624] with cfgmgr32.dll (with due to @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 (Be aware 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 attempting to put in writing compressed VHD photographs
- Repair an error when invoking Rufus from the PowerShell commandline
- Enhance revoked UEFI bootloaders examine 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 (similar 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 knowledge 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 knowledgeable 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 specific error on bootmgr safety points
- Enhance the seek for conflicting processes by working it in a background thread
- Enhance help for Slax Linux
