Rufus (software)

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Rufus
Developer(s)Pete Batard
Stable release
4.4 / January 17, 2024; 3 months ago (2024-01-17)
GNU GPL 3+[3]
Websiterufus.ie

Rufus (The Reliable USB Formatting Utility, with Source

USB flash drives or Live USBs
.

History

Rufus was originally designed[4] as a modern open source replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows,[5] which was primarily used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives.

The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only

UEFI boot support was introduced with version 1.3.2, localization with 1.4.0 and Windows To Go with 2.0. The last version compatible with Windows XP and Vista is 2.18, while the last version compatible with Windows 7 operating systems is Rufus 3.22, as Rufus 4.0 increased the minimum version requirement to require Windows 8 or later.[6]

Features

Rufus supports a variety of bootable

FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, UDF and ReFS filesystems.[10]

Rufus can also be used to compute the

SHA-256
hashes of the currently selected image.

Rufus is capable of downloading retail ISO DVD images of Windows 8.1, various builds of Windows 10 and Windows 11 directly from Microsoft's servers. This ISO download feature is available only if PowerShell 3.0 or later is installed, and 'Check for updates' is enabled in the program's settings (on first usage, Rufus prompts the user whether they want to enable the update check or not).[11][12]

See also

  • List of tools to create Live USB systems

References

  1. ^ "Rufus source code". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  2. ^ "List of languages supported by Rufus". GitHub. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  3. ^ "Rufus License". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  4. ^ a b "Rufus introduction post". 14 December 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  5. ^ "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool on Softpedia". 11 June 2014. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  6. ^ a b "Rufus Changelog". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  7. ^ "List of Rufus downloads". Retrieved 2016-07-09.[permanent dead link]
  8. ISBN 9781491935392
    . Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  9. ^ "Using Rufus To Create Windows To Go USB Drive". 5 March 2015. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  10. ^ Gupta, Vishal. "Rufus: Free Portable Utility to Write Bootable ISO or IMG Files to USB Drives". AskVG. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  11. ^ Fido: Full ISO Download Script (for Windows retail ISOs)
  12. ^ Rufus Security wiki page—Remote script execution

External links

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