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- Submitted: Feb 22 2012 06:23 PM
- Last Updated: Jan 27 2013 10:05 PM
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- Approved by: Nuno Brito
- Approved on: 23 February 2012 - 09:26 AM
Previous Versions
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10 Jan 2013
Rufus 1.3.1
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17 Dec 2012
Rufus 1.3.0
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04 Jun 2012
Rufus 1.2.0
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06 Apr 2012
Rufus 1.1.7
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27 Mar 2012
Rufus 1.1.6
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12 Mar 2012
Rufus 1.1.5
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03 Mar 2012
Rufus 1.1.4
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03 Mar 2012
Rufus 1.1.4
Download Rufus 1.3.2
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Rufus is a Windows utility that creates bootable USB flash drives, using DOS or user provided ISO images.
It can be be especially useful for cases where:
Oh, and 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 (with honorable mention to WINToBootic for managing to keep up). It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs. For speed comparisons, see the official Rufus page.
Apart from DOS, which is always available, here is a non exhaustive list of ISOs that Rufus can create a bootable USB drive with:
Arch Linux, Archbang, BartPE/pebuilder, CentOS, Damn Small Linux, Fedora, FreeDOS, Gentoo, gNewSense, Hiren's Boot CD, Knoppix, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, NT Password Registry Editor, OpenSUSE, Slackware, Tails, Trinity Rescue Kit, Ubuntu, Ultimate Boot CD, Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, etc.
For more info, source (GPL v3), as well as alternate versions with FreeDOS support, please visit http://rufus.akeo.ie.
It can be be especially useful for cases where:
- you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, EFI, etc.)
- you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
- you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
- you want to run a low-level utility
Oh, and 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 (with honorable mention to WINToBootic for managing to keep up). It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs. For speed comparisons, see the official Rufus page.
Apart from DOS, which is always available, here is a non exhaustive list of ISOs that Rufus can create a bootable USB drive with:
Arch Linux, Archbang, BartPE/pebuilder, CentOS, Damn Small Linux, Fedora, FreeDOS, Gentoo, gNewSense, Hiren's Boot CD, Knoppix, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, NT Password Registry Editor, OpenSUSE, Slackware, Tails, Trinity Rescue Kit, Ubuntu, Ultimate Boot CD, Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, etc.
For more info, source (GPL v3), as well as alternate versions with FreeDOS support, please visit http://rufus.akeo.ie.
What's New in Version 1.3.2 (See full changelog)
- Fix support for newer ArchLinux ISOs, that was removed in 1.3.1
- Add support for UEFI boot, as well as GPT. What this means is that Rufus can now produce UEFI bootable UFDs from EFI compatible ISOs, such as Windows 7 x64, Windows 8, ArchLinux, etc.
- The first partition is now always aligned to 1MB (unless advanced options are used)
- Internal refactoring and fixes
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