Rufus 2.0

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

Last update 5 Mar. 2015 | old versions Licence Free OS Support Windows Ranking #2 in Boot Managers

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What's New in Version 2.0 of Rufus

- Major UI improvements (improved font, new info field, no separate progress dialog, etc.)
- Add support for Windows To Go (when Rufus is running on Windows 8 or later)
- Add support for Grub4DOS and GRUB 2 based images (e.g. FreeNAS)
- Add portable application support, through a 'rufus.ini' file
- Add native decompression support for DD images (.Z, .gz, .lzma, .bz2 and .xz)
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- Add seamless UEFI boot of NTFS partitions, for Windows ISOs with large files (>4GB)
- Add support for Windows multipart 'install.swm'
- Add support for non Microsoft VHD drivers
- Add Norwegian translation, courtesy of JED
- Fix a crash on image selection when no device is present
- Fix broken VHD support on non-English version of Windows
- Fix write error for DD images that are not a multiple of the sector size
- Fix broken Unicode support
- Update embedded Syslinux to 6.03
- Other improvements and fixes
- Update Windows version listing for Windows 10