Rufus 4.16.2434 Beta/ 4.15 Build 2396

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2026-10-31 00:00 44595

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Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. It is significantly faster than similar utilities and it’s open source and free. All versions of Rufus allow the creation of a bootable USB from an ISO image.

Use Rufus especially for cases to:

Create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.).
Work on a system that doesn’t have an OS installed.
Run a low-level utility.
Flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS.

Creating an ISO image from a physical disc or from a set of files is very easy to do however, through the use of a CD burning application For example, such as the free CDBurnerXP or ImgBurn.

Rufus Portable is a USB formatting utility which also can create a bootable USB drive using a bootable ISO image. This app requires admin rights. Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need!

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. It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs.

Rufus supports a variety of bootable .ISO files, including various Linux distributions and Windows installation .iso files, as well as raw disk image files (including compressed ones). If needed, it will install a bootloader such as SYSLINUX or GRUB onto the flash drive to render it bootable. It also allows the installation of MS-DOS or FreeDOS onto a flash drive as well as the creation of Windows To Go bootable media. It supports formatting flash drives using FAT, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, UDF and ReFS filesystems.

Supported Languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech. Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian. Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian. Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin). Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Changes in version 4.16:

Finally work around the AMI NTFS driver bug, so that runtime UEFI media validation can work on the millions of PCs that AMI screwed up
Finally report USB 3.2+ devices (USB 3.2 = 20 Gbps, USB 4.0 = 40 Gpbs, USB 4.1 = 80 Gbps – See, USB Forum, it’s really NOT that hard!)
Fix the CA 2023 updated files not being taken into account during runtime UEFI media validation
Fix the “Silent” installation option being potentially applied even when all dependencies aren’t met
Fix the a regression where “Write as ESP” used the whole drive, instead of the expected 1 GB partition
Fix WUE timezone duplication for non English locales and reinstate the use of dots in local usernames
Add classic right click context menu restoration to the QoL improvements option (courtesy of Frédéric Lachapelle)
Drop the ever problematic use of Group Policies when disabling the “Do you want to format this drive?” prompt
Improve raw image partition (re)mount (courtesy of Jared Hagel)
Update embedded GRUB to version 2.16
Update libcdio to latest
Update the official DBX URLs, since they were changed by Microsoft
Address multiple vulnerabilities, courtesy of @indep-arg, Andreas Fehlner, Adam Korczynski and Ramesh Adhikari

Changes in version 4.15:

Improve the guards for using the “silent” option
Improve the ability to cancel during write retries
Fix unrestricted XML entity expansion and integer overflow in ezxml parser
Fix “silent” Windows installation failing at 75% in most cases
Fix a crash during boot when using UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based ARM64 platforms
Fix the first WUE option always being checked by default
Fix an infinite loop when using Windows ISOs that contain multiple WIMs
Fix “Enable runtime UEFI media validation” checkbox not always being properly enabled
Other WUE improvements/fixes for OneDrive removal and username validation

Changes in version 4.14:

Windows User Experience improvements:
- Add a “Quality of Life” option, to disable Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other Microsoft forced nuisances
- Add a Silent installation option, that automatically, and WITHOUT PROMPT, installs Windows on the first detected disk
- Add an option to copy ‘SkuSiPolicy.p7b’ to the ESP on installation (refer to KB5042562)
- Add tooltips for all the dialog options

Add limited support for El-Torito UEFI image extraction (Mostly for Dell BIOS update ISOs)
Improve error report when the user tries to use an image that resides on the target drive
Improve the UEFI:NTFS partition label to make the install media more explicit during disk partitioning
Improve support for Bazzite and other Fedora derivatives that don’t follow EFI conventions
Improve detection and exclusion of the new Bitdefender hidden VHDs
Fix potential errors during creation of Windows To Go media, due to the use of new versions of bcdboot
Fix errors with local accounts that start or end with whitespaces

Homepage – https://rufus.ie

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 8 or later, 32 or 64 bit doesn’t matter.