Rufus is an incredibly useful tool for formatting USB flash disks and creating bootable drives. It's incredibly easy to use and offers a variety of options for partitioning, system type, and file system type. The built-in scanning feature is also great for identifying bad sectors and the quick and advanced format modes make it easy to customize your format to suit your needs. Highly recommended!
The 4.2 version of Rufus is available as a free download on our software library. This free software is a product of Pete Batard. The most recent installation package that can be downloaded is 1.4 MB in size.
The most frequent installation filenames for the program include: update.exe, rufus-3.3.exe, rufus-3.11.exe, rufus-3.10.exe and rufus-3.1.exe etc. Rufus lies within System Utilities, more precisely HDD Management.
Rufus was developed to work on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 or Windows 11 and is compatible with 32-bit systems. The most popular versions of the program are 3.9, 3.6 and 3.5. Our antivirus analysis shows that this download is safe.
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Rufus is a tiny program that can help you create bootable USB flash drives. It will be useful in creating installation media for DOS, Windows, Linux, and other operating systems. Windows installers can be customized with various settings such as minimum RAM requirement, data collection, and requirement for online Microsoft account.
You may want to check out more software, such as Zero Assumption Recovery, Ashampoo Magical Defrag or HDD Capacity Restore, which might be related to Rufus.
This guide will help you learn how to create a bootable USB flash and a pen drive for Windows.