Rufus 4.14 Build 2377 – Final

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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 4.14:

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

Changes in version 4.13:

Fix UEFI:NTFS not selecting the proper driver for ARM/ARM64.
Update embedded GRUB to v2.14.

Changes in version 4.12:

Filter out the new Bitdefender VHDs
Filter disallowed characters in local account names
Improve Microsoft Dev Drive detection (courtesy of Martin Kuschnik)
Improve the pre-formatting partition cleanup code
Improve error reporting on ISO extraction issues
Improve detection of drives with long hardware IDs (typically SSDs)
Improve conflicting process reporting
Improve support for Nutanix and umbrelOS ISOs
Fix a TOCTOU vulnerability in Fido script execution (CVE-2026-2398, reported by @independent-arg)
Fix replacement vulnerabilities for diskcopy.dll and oscdimg.exe
Fix FFU image creation being erroneously invocated, when trying to save an ISO image
Fix saving of ISO images to paths that contain spaces
Update UEFI:NTFS and UEFI DBXs to latest