• Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS
• Create DOS bootable USB drives, using FreeDOS or MS-DOS
• Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS
• Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
• Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones
• Create Windows To Go drives
• Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO -> USB creation ⁽¹⁾
• Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives
• Compute MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 checksums of the selected image
• Modern and familiar UI, with more than 35 languages natively supported
• Small footprint. No installation required.
• Portable
• 100% Free Software (GPL v3)

Use either Visual Studio 2015, WDK 7.1 (Windows Driver Kit) or MinGW and then invoke the .sln, wdk_build.cmd or configure/make respectively.

Note that, since Rufus is an OSI compliant Open Source project, you are entitled to download and use the freely available [Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition] (http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs) to build, run or develop for Rufus. As per the Visual Studio Community Edition license this applies regardless of whether you are an individual or a corporate user. For details, see this.

Rufus provides extensive information about what it is doing, either through its easily accessible log, or through the Windows debug facility.

• Official Website
• FAQ

Please use the GitHub issue tracker for reporting problems or suggesting new features.

⁽¹⁾ Tests carried out with a 16 GB USB 3.0 ADATA pen drive on a Core 2 duo/4 GB RAM platform running Windows 7 x64. ISO: en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_618240.iso