Rufus

 

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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: - 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 ## Features * Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS * Create DOS bootable USB drives, using [FreeDOS](http://www.freedos.org/) or MS-DOS * Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including [UEFI bootable NTFS](https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs) * Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.) * Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones * Create [Windows To Go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_To_Go) drives * Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO -> USB creation. * Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives * Compute MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 checksums of the selected image * Modern and familiar UI, with more than [35 languages natively supported](https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#What_languages_are_natively_supported_by_Rufus) * Small footprint. No installation required. * Portable * 100% [Free Software](http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html) ([GPL v3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html)) * [FAQ](https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ) * [Supported ISOs](https://rufus.ie/en_IE.html/#ref2)