Create bootable USB drives the easy way with Rufus.

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

Features:

• Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3.
• Create DOS bootable USB drives using FreeDOS.
• Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS.
• Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs such as Windows, Linux, etc.
• Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones.
• Create Windows 11 installation drives for PCs that don't have TPM or Secure-Boot.
• Create Windows To Go drives.
• Create persistent Linux partitions.
• Create VHD/DD images of a drive.
• Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums of the selected image.
• Improve Windows installation experience by automatically setting up OOBE parameters (local account, privacy options, etc.)
• Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives.
• Download official Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, or Windows 11 retail ISOs.
• Download UEFI Shell ISOs.
• Modern and familiar UI, with 38 languages natively supported.
• Small footprint. No installation required.
• Portable. Secure Boot compatible.
• 100% Free Software (GPL v3.)

Change Log:

• Add a new setup.exe wrapper to bypass Windows 11 24H2 in-place upgrade restrictions.
• Add TimeZone to regional options replication.
• Set local account passwords to not expire by default.
• Fix an error when trying to write compressed VHD images.
• Fix an error when invoking Rufus from the PowerShell command-line.
• Improve revoked UEFI bootloaders check to support Linux SBAT, Windows SVN and cert DBX.
• Improve support for ReactOS boot media.