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Rufus
Original author(s)Pete Batard
Developer(s)Akeo Consulting
Stable release
2.11 / September 8, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-09-08)
Repository
Written inC [1]
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows XP and later
Available in37 languages[2]
List of languages
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Portuguese Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
TypeLive USB
LicenseGNU GPL 3+[3]
Websiterufus.akeo.ie

Rufus is a free and open-source portable application for Microsoft Windows that can be used to format and create bootable USB flash drives or Live USBs. It is developed by Pete Batard of Akeo Consulting.

History

Rufus was originally designed[4] as a modern Open Source replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows,[5] which was primarily used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives.

The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only[6]), was released on December 11, 2011, with originally only MS-DOS support. Version 1.0.4 introduced FreeDOS support and version 1.1.0 introduced ISO image support. Until 1.2.0, two separate versions were provided, with one for MS-DOS and one for FreeDOS.[7] UEFI boot support was introduced with version 1.3.2, localization with 1.4.0 and Windows To Go with 2.0.

Features

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.[8] 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.[9] It supports formatting flash drives as FAT, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, UDF or ReFS filesystems.[10]

Rufus can also be used to compute the MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 hashes of the currently selected image.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Rufus source code". Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  2. ^ "List of languages supported by Rufus". Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. ^ "Rufus License". Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  4. ^ "Rufus introduction post". Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  5. ^ "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool on Softpedia". Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  6. ^ "Rufus Changelog". Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  7. ^ "List of Rufus downloads". Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  8. ^ Mackey, Tim (5 April 2016). XenServer Administration Handbook: Practical Recipes for Successful Deployments. O'Reilly Media, Inc. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  9. ^ "Using Rufus To Create Windows To Go USB Drive". Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  10. ^ Gupta, Vishal. "Rufus: Free Portable Utility to Write Bootable ISO or IMG Files to USB Drives". AskVG. Retrieved 29 June 2016.

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