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Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/flash drives, memory sticks, etc.

It can be particularly useful for cases where:

• you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
• you must work on a system that does not have an OS installed
• you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
• you want to run a low-level tool

Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need!

Non-exhaustive list of ISOs Rufus is known to work with:

Arch Linux, Archbang, BartPE/pebuilder, CentOS, Damn Small Linux, Fedora, FreeDOS, Gentoo, gNewSense, Hiren’s Boot CD, LiveXP, Knoppix, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, NT Password Registry Editor, OpenSUSE, Parted Magic, Slackware, Tails, Trinity Rescue Kit, Ubuntu, Ultimate Boot CD, Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11, etc.

Oh, and Rufus is fast. For example, creating a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO is about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB Download Tool. It’s also marginally faster creating Linux bootable USB from ISOs.

What is new

• Added download link for Rufus 3.22 Beta
• Allow assignment of an arbitrary local account username in the Windows User Experience dialog box
• Improve Windows version reporting from ISO/.wim
• Update UEFI:NTFS’s NTFS drivers to v1.4 and exFAT drivers to v1.9
• Switch to external download for non-standard GRUB (Fedora 37, openSUSE Live, GeckoLinux)
• Fix UEFI:NTFS partition not set to MBR mode for ISOs with a >4GB file (UwUntu)
• Fix GRUB support for Arch and derivatives, when a non-FAT compatible label is used
• Fix incorrect detection of GRUB with non-standard prefixes
• Fix tab order not working in Windows User Experience dialog box