Create bootable USB drive with Rufus

Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

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 work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
• you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
• you want to run a low-level utility

Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need!

Oh, and Rufus is fast. For instance it's about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO (with honorable mention to WiNToBootic for managing to keep up). It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs .
A non exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISO's is also provided at the bottom of this page.

Download

• Rufus v1.4.1 (534 KB) Includes: Deutsch, Ελληνικά, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Lietuvių, Magyar, Netherlands, Polski, Русский, Română, Slovenščina, Türkçe, 正體中文, 한국어.

Once downloaded, the application is ready to use  ,no installation or other files are necessary.

With this new version, I must express my gratitude to the translators who made it possible for Rufus to be localized in more than 15 languages (as well the translators who are working hard on adding some more). If you find that you can now use Rufus in your own language, it's really thanks to them!

System Requirements:

Windows XP or later. 32 or 64 bit doesn't matter.

Usage:

Download the executable and run it - no installation is necessary.
If elevation is required, you will be prompted for it.

The executable is digitally signed and the signature should state:

• "Akeo Consulting" (v1.3.0 or later)
• "Pete Batard - Open Source Developer" (v1.2.0 or earlier)

Notes on DOS support:

If you create a DOS bootable drive and use a non-US keyboard, Rufus will attempt to select a keyboard layout according to the locale of your system. In that case, FreeDOS, which is the default selection, is recommended over MS-DOS, as it supports more keyboard layouts.

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