Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. 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 flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS, you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed.

Features

Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3
Create DOS bootable USB drives, using FreeDOS or MS-DOS (Windows 8.1 or earlier)
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 To Go drives
Create persistent Linux partitions
Download official Microsoft Windows 8 or Windows 10 retail ISOs
Compute MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 checksums of the selected image
Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO → USB creation ⁽¹⁾
Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives
Modern and familiar UI, with 38 languages natively supported
Small footprint. No installation required.
Portable

Suggested keywords:

UNetbootin - Create Bootable USB Drives

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