Rufus 4.8.2250 Beta/ 4.7 Build 2231

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 Rufus 4.8:

• Switch to wimlib for all WIM image processing:
  • Greatly speeds up image analysis when opening Windows ISOs
  • Can speed up Windows To Go drive creation (But won’t do miracles if you have a crap drive)
  • Might help with Parallels limitations on Mac (But Rufus on Parallels is still UNSUPPORTED)
  • Enables the splitting of >4GB files with Alt-E (But still WAY SLOWER than using UEFI:NTFS)

• Switch to using Visual Studio binaries everywhere, due to MinGW DLL delay-loading limitations
• Add more exceptions for Linux ISOs that restrict themselves to DD mode (Nobara, openSUSE, …)
• Improve reporting of UEFI bootloaders in the log, with info on the Secure Boot status
• Fix an issue with size limitations when writing an uncompressed VHD back to the same drive
• Fix a crash when opening the log with the 32-bit MinGW compiled version

Changes in Rufus 4.7:

• Add a mechanism to detect and download updated DBXs from the official UEFI repository
• Add ztsd compression support for disk images
• Add a new exclusion feature in the settings, to ignore disks with a specific GPT GUID
• Improve detection for compressed VHD images that are too large to fit the target drive
• Fix commandline hogger not being deleted when running Rufus from a different directory
• Fix FAT filenames from embedded images being potentially truncated on image extraction
• Fix a side-loading vulnerability [CVE-2025-26624] with cfgmgr32.dll
• Fix UI memory leaks (courtesy of @ozone10)
• Fall back to user/system default locale when getting error description
• Don’t run the commandline hogger on POSIX shells
• Drop ARM 32-bit support (Note that ARM 64-bit support is *NOT* affected by this)

Changes in Rufus 4.6:

• Add a new setup.exe wrapper to bypass Windows 11 24H2 in-place upgrade restrictions
• Add TimeZone to regional options replication
• Set local account passwords to not expire by default
• Fix an error when trying to write compressed VHD images
• Fix an error when invoking the app from the PowerShell commandline
• Improve revoked UEFI bootloaders check to support Linux SBAT, Windows SVN and cert DBX

Homepage – https://rufus.ie

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

Size: 2.01 MB

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