Rufus V4.6: A Powerful Bootable Utility
Submitted by dts5901 on Friday, April 5, 2019 - 11:52.
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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:
- 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.
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