Rufus Google Drive

Rufus is a 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:

Speedy bootable USB creation. In the end, there is nothing negative to say about Rufus. When looked at as a whole, it is a robust program. For those who are merely trying to have a safe BIOS file in case their computer crashes, or preserve a game for the future, it is perfect. For developers, it is ideal because they can edit the code that runs the program to do exactly what they need. Rufus Download Etcher, select the ISO file, flash it to your USB drive. Reboot and run CheckRa1n Reboot your computer and enter your BIOS’s boot menu. This removes all partition and data from the USB drive. Type 'cre par pri'. This makes an new partition. Type 'format fs=ntfs quick'. This will quick format the drive. This gives the drive a mount point (like E:). Close the diskpart window, and try Rufus again. That will repartition your drive and make it useable as a storage. 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. Open the location you saved Rufus ISO to USB bootable disk creator. Then double-click to open it. The software will request to download updates, click No. Rufus will automatically detect USB storage devices attached to your computer. If you have more than one, click the Device drop-down and select the USB device you want to use.

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!

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. It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs. ⁽¹⁾
A non exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISOs is also provided at the bottom of this page. ⁽²⁾

Download

Last updated 2020.11.20:

Rufus 3.13(1.1 MB)
Rufus 3.13 Portable(1.1 MB)

Supported Languages:

Bahasa Indonesia

Bahasa Malaysia

Български

Čeština

Dansk

Deutsch

Ελληνικά

English

Español

Français

Hrvatski

Italiano

Latviešu

Lietuvių

Magyar

Nederlands

Norsk

Polski

Português

Português do Brasil

Русский

Română

Slovensky

Slovenščina

Srpski

Suomi

Svenska

Tiếng Việt

Türkçe

Українська

简体中文

正體中文

日本語

한국어

ไทย

עברית

العربية

پارسی

System Requirements:

Windows 7 or later, 32 or 64 bit doesn't matter. Once downloaded, the application is ready to use.

I will take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the translators who made it possible for Rufus, as well as this webpage, to be translated in various languages. If you find that you can use Rufus in your own language, you should really thank them!

Usage

Download the executable and run it – no installation is necessary.

The executable is digitally signed and the signature should state:

'Akeo Consulting' (v1.3.0 or later)
'Pete Batard - Open Source Developer' (v1.2.0 or earlier)

Notes on DOS support:

If you create a DOS bootable drive and use a non-US keyboard, Rufus will attempt to select a keyboard layout according to the locale of your system. In that case, FreeDOS, which is the default selection, is recommended over MS-DOS, as it supports more keyboard layouts.

Notes on ISO Support:

All versions of Rufus since v1.1.0 allow the creation of a bootable USB from an ISO image (.iso).

Creating an ISO image from a physical disc or from a set of files is very easy to do however, through the use of a CD burning application, such as the freely available InfraRecorder or CDBurnerXP.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

A Rufus FAQ is available HERE.

To provide feedback, report a bug or request an enhancement, please use the github issue tracker. Or you can send an e-mail.

License

GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 or later.
You are free to distribute, modify or even sell the software, insofar as you respect the GPLv3 license.

Rufus is produced in a 100% transparent manner, from its public source, using a MinGW32 environment.

Changelog

Version 3.13 (2020.11.20)
- Add a cheat mode (
  Alt
  -) to accept disk images without a Boot Marker
- Add marquee operation progress to the taskbar icon
- Add zeroing/image writing progress to the log
- Switch to using 0x55 and 0xAA instead of 0x00 and 0xFF for low pass badblock check
- Switch to using fake/manufacturer units when computing the default label
- Fix overnumerous write retries on error when writing a disk image
- Work around Windows' abysmal handling of removable drives that contain an ESP
- Improve mounting/unmounting of volumes
- Update UEFI:NTFSfile system drivers to version 1.7
- Other internal fixes and improvements (VDS, error reporting, etc.)

Source Code

Rufus 3.13(3.5 MB)
Alternatively, you can clone the git repository using:
For more information, see the github project.

If you are a developer, you are very much encouraged to tinker with Rufus and submit patches.

Donations

Since I'm getting asked about this on regular basis, there is no donation button on this page.

The main reason is that I feel that the donation system doesn't actually help software development and worse, can be guilt-inducing for users who choose not to donate.

Instead, I think that 'mécénat'; or developer patronage, from companies which benefit most from a healthy FLOSS ecosystem, is what we should be aiming for. This is because, unless they are backed by a company, developers who want to provide quality Open Source software cannot realistically sustain full time development, no matter how generous their software users are.

Also, unless you are blocking them (hint, hint), you'll notice that there are ads on this page, which I consider sufficient revenue enough.

Finally the fact that I have the freedom to develop Free Software in my spare time should indicate that I'm well-off enough, and therefore that you should direct your generosity towards people who need it a lot more than I do. If you really insist, you can always make a donation to the Free Software Foundation, as they are the main reason software like Rufus is possible.

At any rate, I'll take this opportunity to say thank you for your continuing support and enthusiasm about this little program: it is much appreciated!

But please continue to feel free to use Rufus without any guilt about not contributing for it financially – you should never have to!

(1) Speed comparison between Rufus and other applications

The following tests were carried out on a Windows 7 x64 Core 2 duo/4 GB RAM platform, with an USB 3.0 controller and a 16 GB USB 3.0 ADATA S102 flash drive.

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Windows 7 x64

en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_618240.iso

Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool v1.0.30	00:08:10
Universal USB Installer v1.8.7.5	00:07:10
UNetbootin v1.1.1.1	00:06:20
RMPrepUSB v2.1.638	00:04:10
WiNToBootic v1.2	00:03:35
Rufus v1.1.1	00:03:25

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Ubuntu 11.10 x86

ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso

UNetbootin v1.1.1.1	00:01:45
RMPrepUSB v2.1.638	00:01:35
Universal USB Installer v1.8.7.5	00:01:20
Rufus v1.1.1	00:01:15

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Slackware 13.37 x86

slackware-13.37-install-dvd.iso

UNetbootin v1.1.1.1	01:00:00+
Universal USB Installer v1.8.7.5	00:24:35
RMPrepUSB v2.1.638	00:22:45
Rufus v1.1.1	00:20:15

(2) Non exhaustive list of ISOs Rufus is known to work with

Arch Linux

Archbang

BartPE/pebuilder

CentOS

Damn Small Linux

Debian

Fedora

FreeDOS

FreeNAS

Gentoo

GParted

gNewSense

Hiren's Boot CD

LiveXP

Knoppix

KolibriOS

Kubuntu

Linux Mint

NT Password Registry Editor

Parted Magic

Partition Wizard

Raspbian

ReactOS

Red Hat

rEFInd

Slackware

Super Grub2 Disk

Tails

Trinity Rescue Kit

Ubuntu

Ultimate Boot CD

Windows XP (SP2+)

Windows Vista

Windows Server 2008

Windows 7

Windows 8

Windows 8.1

Windows Server 2012

Windows 10

Windows Server 2016

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Rufus is a free, open-source software tool for creating bootable operating systems, such as Linux distributions and various versions of Windows, directly from the USB flash drive. According to its creator, Rufus is faster than other similar software.

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2019-03-29
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