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 (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:

• Fix persistent partition not working with Ubuntu 23.04 (#2231)
• Fix out of range pointer error with Ubuntu 23.04 when booting in BIOS mode (#2233)
• Fix boot freeze with Ubuntu Studio when Secure Boot is enabled (#2210)
• Fix incorrect architecture detection when checking for updates
• Fix a Windows Store application crash when processing GRUB bootloaders
• Fix a Windows Store application crash when enumerating processes that contain a % sign
• Fix a Windows Store application crash when using German localization
• New versions of Rufus requiring Windows 8 or later
• New versions of Rufus defaulting to a 64-bit executable
  • Old versions of Rufus potentially not being able to update properly