Rufus
for Windows- Name Rufus
- Category Utilities & tools
- Downloads 35,000,000+
- Developer Akeo Consulting
Rufus is a free open-source bootable USB utility. It will help you format a USB flash drive to boot up a device with a missing or corrupted operating system. Especifically for OS such as Linux, UEFI, and Microsoft Windows, it can create installation files from bootable ISOs to fix them. Rufus can also play the role to flash a BIOS or other DOS firmware.
Rufus was initiated by Pete Batard in 2011, as a free open-source DOS bootable USB flash drive utility. Later it replaced the Windows HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool (HUDSFT).
New features:
Support FreeDOS, ISO images, UEFI,
Update support for MS-DOS and FreeDOS
Working Language Localized
Support Windows To Go
Support Windows Vista and XP machines
Rufus has been highly praised for its constant updates and it will continue to do so. Hence there will be more functions and features supported on Rufus.
Rufus also enables you to start Windows 10 from a USB drive and create a new USB operating system installer easily.
How to create a bootable Rufus drive?
- Obtain an ISO for the operating system you want to use.
- Prepare the latest Rufus version and a USB flash drive.
- Insert the drive and start the program
- Head down to the ‘Boot selection’ drop-down menu and select ‘Disk or ISO image’.
- Click on ‘Select,’ which opens Windows Explorer.
- Browse for your ISO images and open them so that Rufus knows which image to burn.
After clicking on ‘Standard Windows installation’, Rufus will run the right Partition Scheme. A volume label is required and you need to adjust settings for ‘Cluster size’ and ‘File system’. Click ‘Start’, the software will begin creating the USB installer.
