Rufus 3.18 Build 1877 Final

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable Flash/Pen/Key drives, memory cards, etc. Despite its small size, Rufus can do everything you need! Works very fast. For example, twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool when creating a bootable Windows 7 USB from an ISO image. Rufus is also slightly faster at creating a bootable Linux USB from an ISO image.

Rufus will be especially useful in cases where:

• you need to create a bootable USB disk from a bootable ISO image (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
• need to work on systems that do not have an OS installed
• you need to flash the BIOS or other firmware from under DOS
• you need to run a low-level utility

Despite its small size, Rufus knows how to do everything you need.

About DOS support:
If you create a DOS boot disk and use a non-US keyboard, Rufus will choose the keyboard layout according to your system’s regional settings. In this case, FreeDOS, which is the default, will be used instead of MS-DOS because it supports more keyboard layouts.

About ISO support:
All versions of Rufus since version 1.1.0 allow you to create a bootable USB disk from an ISO image (.iso). Creating an ISO image from a physical disk or from a set of files is very easy with CD burning software such as the freeware CDBurnerXP or ImgBurn.

About UEFI and GPT support:
Since version 1.3.2, Rufus supports UEFI as well as GPT partitions of installation media, which means that Rufus will let you install Windows 7, Windows 8 or Linux in full EFI mode. However, full UEFI/GPT support requires Windows Vista or later versions of Windows. Windows XP restricts the creation of UEFI boot disks to MBR mode due to operating system limitations.

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