Rufus is a standalone app designed to format and create a bootable USB drive for a large variety of ISOs. The app is just over 1MB in size and is notably faster than similar competitor apps such as the Windows 7 USB utility, Universal USB Installer, and UNetbootin.
Rufus can come in handy when you need to simply format a USB drive, install an OS on a machine that lacks a CD/DVD-ROM drive, or when you need to boot an operating system temporarily without intentions of actually installing the media. This can be immensely useful while you're on the go or just need access to an OS for a temporary, isolated reason. The app can even be used to flash firmware to BIOS or other destinations by just using DOS.
Even though Rufus is a tiny utility in comparison to other USB creation tools that can be rather bulky in size, it contends easily with the competition and creates bootable USB drives in record time!
Features
- Bootable USB Drive (USB keys, pendrive, memory stick, etc)
- USB instillation media from bootable ISOs
- flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
- low-level utility
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Rufus is a utility used to format and create bootable USB media, such as "USB sticks", memory cards, etc.
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Under Windows it works great. Under Linux, MX has not tried it yet.
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Easy to use, great performance and very stable!
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I used Rufus for creating a Windows installation USB drive, but when I used it to install an image through UEFI somehow it ruined my current BCD in a dual boot setup by deleting the BCD, and recreating it with just one entry. I had to fix the problem manually. Why not just copy the original ISO data to the drive, instead of doing something different, i.e. utilizing a EFI partition on the USB drive?