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Rufus v4.7

A utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

It can be especially useful for cases where:
• you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, 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




Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need!
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. It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs. (1)
A non exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISOs is also provided at the bottom of this page. (2)

System Requirements:
Windows 8 or later.

Download the executable and run it – no installation is necessary.
The executable is digitally signed and the signature should state:
• "Akeo Consulting" (v1.3.0 or later)
• "Pete Batard - Open Source Developer" (v1.2.0 or earlier)

Notes on DOS support:
If you create a DOS bootable drive and use a non-US keyboard, Rufus will attempt to select a keyboard layout according to the locale of your system. In that case, FreeDOS, which is the default selection, is recommended over MS-DOS, as it supports more keyboard layouts.
Notes on ISO Support:

All versions of Rufus since v1.1.0 allow the creation of a bootable USB from an ISO image (.iso).

Creating an ISO image from a physical disc or from a set of files is very easy to do however, through the use of a CD burning application, such as the freely available CDBurnerXP or ImgBurn.
Notes on UEFI & GPT support:

Since version 1.3.2, Rufus support UEFI as well as GPT for installation media, meaning that it will allow you to install Windows 7, Windows 8 or Linux in full EFI mode.
However, Windows Vista or later is required for full UEFI/GPT support. Because of OS limitations, Windows XP restricts the creation of UEFI bootable drives to MBR mode.

Non exhaustive list of ISOs Rufus is known to work with.
AlmaLinux
Arch Linux
Archboot
CentOS
Clonezilla
Damn Small Linux
Debian
Elementary OS
Fedora
FreeDOS
Garuda Linux
Gentoo
GParted
Hiren's Boot CD
Kali Linux
Knoppix
KolibriOS
Linux Mint
Manjaro Linux
NT Password Registry Editor
OpenSUSE
Raspberry Pi OS
Raspbian
Red Hat
rEFInd
Rocky Linux
Slackware
Super Grub2 Disk
Tails
Trinity Rescue Kit
TrueNAS CORE
Ubuntu
UEFI Shell
Ultimate Boot CD
Windows XP (SP2+)
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8/8.1
Windows 10
Windows Server 2019
Windows 11

Changelog:
v4.7 (2025.04.09)
Add a mechanism to detect and download updated DBXs from the official UEFI repository
Add ztsd compression support for disk images
Add a new exclusion feature in the settings, to ignore disks with a specific GPT GUID
Improve detection for compressed VHD images that are too large to fit the target drive
Fix commandline hogger not being deleted when running Rufus from a different directory
Fix FAT filenames from embedded images being potentially truncated on image extraction
Fix a side-loading vulnerability [CVE-2025-26624] with cfgmgr32.dll (with thanks to @EmperialX)
Fix UI memory leaks (courtesy of @ozone10)
Fall back to user/system default locale when getting error description (courtesy of @Wack0)
Don't run the commandline hogger on POSIX shells
Drop ARM 32-bit builds (Note that ARM 64-bit builds are NOT affected by this)
Update FreeDOS and Grub4DOS to latest







This download is for the Windows portable version (very bottom of page).
All other download assets are below:


Windows 64bit installer
Windows 32bit installer
Windows ARM64bit installer



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Downloads Views Developer Last Update Version Size Type Rank
10,917 35,371 Pete Batard/Akeo <img src="https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/gallery/thumbs/Rufus_th.png"border="0"> Apr 09, 2025 - 12:21 4.7 1.61MB EXE 5/5, out of 73 Votes.
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