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Rufus V4.14 - A Powerful Bootable Utility

Last updated on Friday, May 1, 2026 - 11:55 by Atta Rehman
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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:

  • Windows User Experience improvements:
    • Add a "Quality of Life" option, to disable Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other Microsoft forced nuisances
    • Add a Silent installation option, that automatically, and WITHOUT PROMPT, installs Windows on the first detected disk on the target platform
    • Add an option to copy SkuSiPolicy.p7b to the ESP on installation (please refer to KB5042562 for more info)
    • Add tooltips for all the dialog options
  • Add limited support for El-Torito UEFI image extraction (Mostly for Dell BIOS update ISOs)
  • Improve error report when the user tries to use an image that resides on the target drive
  • Improve the UEFI:NTFS partition label to make the install media more explicit during Windows Setup disk partitioning
  • Improve support for Bazzite and other Fedora derivatives that don't follow EFI conventions
  • Improve reporting of GRUB and Isolinux MBRs
  • Improve detection and exclusion of the new Bitdefender hidden VHDs (#2953)
  • Fix potential errors during creation of Windows To Go media, due to the use of new versions of bcdboot (#2940)
  • Fix errors with local accounts that start or end with whitespaces

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