Create boot able USB drives the easy way
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Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
It can be especially useful for cases where:
- you need to create USB installation media from boot able 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
Oh, and Rufus is fast. For instance it's about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO (with honorable mention to WiNToBootic for managing to keep up). It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs
A non exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISOs is also provided at the bottom of this page .
- Rufus v1.3.4 (459 KB)
- Chinese version / ä¸åœ‹ç‰ˆ (PARTIALLY TRANSLATED, 497 KB) [updated 2013.07.24]
- Other versions
Once downloaded, the application is ready to use — no installation or other files are necessary.
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