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- Submitted: Feb 22 2012 06:23 PM
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- Approved by: Brito
- Approved on: 23 February 2012 - 09:26 AM
Previous Versions
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17 Jan 2024
Rufus 4.4
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19 Oct 2023
Rufus 4.3
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26 Jul 2023
Rufus 4.2
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31 May 2023
Rufus 4.1
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26 Apr 2023
Rufus 4.0
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25 Mar 2023
Rufus 3.22
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28 Nov 2022
Rufus 3.21
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04 Aug 2022
Rufus 3.20
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01 Jul 2022
Rufus 3.19
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01 Jul 2022
Rufus 3.18
Download Rufus 4.5
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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:
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, CentOS, Clonezilla, Damn Small Linux, Debian, Fedora, FreeDOS, Garuda Linux, Gentoo, GParted, Hiren's Boot CD, LiveXP, Knoppix, KolibriOS, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Manjaro Linux, NT Password Registry Editor, OpenSUSE, Parted Magic, Partition Wizard, Raspbian, ReactOS, Red Hat, rEFInd, Rocky Linux, Slackware, Super Grub2 Disk, Tails, Trinity Rescue Kit, TrueNAS CORE, Ubuntu, UEFI Shell, Ultimate Boot CD, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, Windows 11
For more info, source (GPL v3), please visit https://rufus.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
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, CentOS, Clonezilla, Damn Small Linux, Debian, Fedora, FreeDOS, Garuda Linux, Gentoo, GParted, Hiren's Boot CD, LiveXP, Knoppix, KolibriOS, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Manjaro Linux, NT Password Registry Editor, OpenSUSE, Parted Magic, Partition Wizard, Raspbian, ReactOS, Red Hat, rEFInd, Rocky Linux, Slackware, Super Grub2 Disk, Tails, Trinity Rescue Kit, TrueNAS CORE, Ubuntu, UEFI Shell, Ultimate Boot CD, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, Windows 11
For more info, source (GPL v3), please visit https://rufus.ie.
What's New in Version 4.5 (See full changelog)
- Add new advanced option to perform runtime UEFI media validation of suitable images (Windows, most Linux)
- Move the 'Use Rufus MBR' advanced option to a cheat mode (Alt-A)
- Fix truncation of VHDX images, as well as a benign error message when writing VHD/VHDX
- Fix support for Linux persistence in some configurations (Mint, Ubuntu 24.04)
- Fix multiple potential vulnerabilities (with thanks to Mansour Gashasbi)
- Update internal GRUB to version 2.12
- Update UEFI:NTFS to latest (now always uses the ntfs-3g driver, rather than the buggy AMI NTFS one)
- Increase buffer size when copying ISO files, in an attempt to minimize the AMI NTFS UEFI driver bug
- Improve partition creation handling
- Don't display the WUE dialog when a conflicting 'unattend.xml' already exists
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