Program to create a bootable flash drive with Windows

Rufus is an utility designed to enable you to easily create bootable USB drives for any operating system or game on PCs, giving users access to install the OS or game without their original disk being available for installation. Rufus makes creating bootable usb-drives easy! Simply install OSes or games without them being physically present – creating bootable usb drives is now one way of installing them without original disk.

Rufus provides multiple advantages:

• it works on any type of Windows-based operating system starting with Windows XP;
• additionally, its latest iteration provides faster boot disk creation that will get booting devices up and running quickly – only minutes for creating one!
• Recognizing any type of ISO image makes it simple for our program to quickly identify common language with any computer
• file system (Ext2/3/3 ReiserFS SWAPFS FAT12/16/32/NTFS etc), including full support of Russian.

Rufus specs

• It does not drain system resources heavily and launches without installation on PCs; weight of program minimal.

Disadvantages of Rufus

• Rufus can only fully be utilized by advanced PC users; therefore, general users might struggle with its functionality. But basic knowledge should suffice when recording bootable USB drives correctly.
• Archive 2 provides both an executable installer and portable version of the program, making unpacking of zip archives possible with any free archiver.

Additional Information

• Developer: Pete Batard/Akeo
• License: Freeware
• Age Restrictions: 0+
• Category: Administration, System utilities
• Compatibility: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP

Rufus screenshot