Popular Post Seafood Posted January 11, 2014 Popular Post #1 Posted January 11, 2014 Hi Guys Been using this utility now for approx. nine months & works well with my testing on W7, W8 , W8.1 & W10 too! It will work on large capacity USB thumb drives & is so handy as you can put all your progs & OS on the same drive & install. Homepage & download Rufus is a small 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! Homepage: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Github: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 23 6 1
Seafood Posted March 25, 2023 Author #2 Posted March 25, 2023 Updated Version 3.22 (2023.03.25) Add SHA-1 and SHA-256 x86 acceleration on CPUs that support it Add an option to disable BitLocker device encryption in the Windows User Experience dialog Add a cheat mode (Ctrl-P) to preserve the log between sessions Fix potential media creation errors by forcing the unmount of stale WIM images Fix potential access errors in ISO → ESP mode by forcing Large FAT32 formatting Fix user-specified label not being preserved on error/cancel Fix some large SSD devices being listed by default Fix processing of Rock Ridge CE fields Work around the use of Rock Ridge symbolic links for Linux firmware packages (Debian) Remove the ISO download feature on Windows 7 Download 2 1
Seafood Posted June 6, 2023 Author #3 Posted June 6, 2023 Updated Version 4.1 2023.05.31 *Add timeouts on enumeration queries that may stall on some systems *Restore MS-DOS drive creation through the download of binaries from Microsoft *Update the log button icon *Fix UEFI:NTFS incompatibility with Windows Dev Kit 2023 platform *Fix more GRUB out of range pointer errors with Ubuntu/Fedora when booting in BIOS mode Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1
Seafood Posted July 26, 2023 Author #4 Posted July 26, 2023 Updated Version 4.2 (2023.07.26) *Add detection and warning for UEFI revoked bootloaders (including ones revoked through SkuSiPolicy.p7b) *Add ZIP64 support, to extract .zip images that are larger than 4 GB *Add saving and restoring current drive to/from compressed VHDX image *Add saving and restoring current drive to/from compressed FFU (Full Flash Update) image [EXPERIMENTAL] *Fix a crash when trying to open Windows ISOs, with the x86 32-bit version *Increase ISO → ESP limit, for Debian 12 netinst images *Make sure the main partition size is aligned to the cluster size Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1 1
Seafood Posted October 20, 2023 Author #5 Posted October 20, 2023 Updated Version 4.3 (2023.10.19) *Add support for Rock Ridge symlink preservation when NTFS is used *Add an exception to enforce NTFS for Linux Mint's LMDE *Add an expert feature to restrict a Windows installation to S Mode *Fix persistence support for Debian 12 when booted in BIOS mode *Fix a regression that prevented the opening of .vhd images *Update UEFI:NTFS to report a more explicit error on bootmgr security issues *Improve the search for conflicting processes by running it in a background thread *Improve support for Slax Linux Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1 1
Seafood Posted January 20, 2024 Author #6 Posted January 20, 2024 Updated Version 4.4 (2024.01.17) *Add workaround for distros that use broken symbolic links as their UEFI bootloaders (such as Mint 21.3) *Add support for GRUB 2.12 *Fix a crash when saving .ffu images *Fix UEFI:NTFS partition not being added, in MBR mode, for some Linux ISOs *Prevent Microsoft Dev Drives from being listed *Improve support for SDXC card readers *Improve Large FAT32 formatting by aligning start of data regions to 1 MB (courtesy of Fred) Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 2 1
Seafood Posted May 10, 2024 Author #7 Posted May 10, 2024 Updated Albeit Beta Version 4.5 (2024.08.??) *Add a new advanced option, that adds runtime UEFI media validation to suitable images (Windows, most Linux) *Move the 'Use Rufus MBR' advanced option to a cheat mode (Alt-A) *Fix truncation of VHDX images, as well as a benign error message when writing VHD/VHDX *Fix support for Linux persistence in some configurations (Mint, Ubuntu 24.04) *Fix multiple potential vulnerabilities (with thanks to Mansour Gashasbi) *Update internal GRUB to version 2.12 *Update UEFI:NTFS to latest (now always uses the ntfs-3g driver, rather than the buggy AMI NTFS one) *Increase buffer size when copying ISO files, in an attempt to minimize the AMI NTFS UEFI driver bug *Improve partition creation handling *Don't display the WUE dialog when a conflicting 'unattend.xml' already exists Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 2
Seafood Posted May 23, 2024 Author #8 Posted May 23, 2024 Updated Version 4.5 (2024.05.22) *Add a new advanced option, that adds runtime UEFI media validation to suitable images (Windows, most Linux) *Move the 'Use Rufus MBR' advanced option to a cheat mode (Alt-A) *Fix truncation of VHDX images, as well as a benign error message when writing VHD/VHDX *Fix support for Linux persistence in some configurations (Mint, Ubuntu 24.04) *Fix multiple potential vulnerabilities (with thanks to Mansour Gashasbi) *Update internal GRUB to version 2.12 *Update UEFI:NTFS to latest (now always uses the ntfs-3g driver, rather than the buggy AMI NTFS one) *Increase buffer size when copying ISO files, in an attempt to minimize the AMI NTFS UEFI driver bug *Improve partition creation handling *Don't display the WUE dialog when a conflicting 'unattend.xml' already exists Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 3 2
Seafood Posted October 10, 2024 Author #9 Posted October 10, 2024 Updated Albeit beta Version 4.6 (2024.10.10) Add a new setup.exe wrapper to bypass Windows 11 24H2 in-place upgrade restrictions Add TimeZone to regional options replication Set local account passwords to not expire by default Fix an error when trying to write compressed VHD images Fix an error when invoking Rufus from the PowerShell commandline Improve revoked UEFI bootloaders check to support Linux SBAT, Windows SVN and cert DBX Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 2 1
Seafood Posted October 22, 2024 Author #10 Posted October 22, 2024 Updated Version 4.6 (2024.10.21) Add a new setup.exe wrapper to bypass Windows 11 24H2 in-place upgrade restrictions Add TimeZone to regional options replication Set local account passwords to not expire by default Fix an error when trying to write compressed VHD images Fix an error when invoking Rufus from the PowerShell commandline Improve revoked UEFI bootloaders check to support Linux SBAT, Windows SVN and cert DBX Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1 1
Seafood Posted April 16 Author #11 Posted April 16 Updated Version 4.7 (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 Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1
Seafood Posted Thursday at 09:06 PM Author #12 Posted Thursday at 09:06 PM Updated Albeit Beta Version 4.8 (2025.06.??) Switch to wimlib for all WIM image processing: - Greatly speeds up image analysis when opening Windows ISOs - Can speed up Windows To Go drive creation (But won't do miracles if you have a crap drive) - Might help with Parallels limitations on Mac (But Rufus on Parallels is still UNSUPPORTED) - Enables the splitting of >4GB files with Alt-E (But still WAY SLOWER than using UEFI:NTFS) Switch to using Visual Studio binaries everywhere, due to MinGW DLL delay-loading limitations Add more exceptions for Linux ISOs that restrict themselves to DD mode (Nobara, openSUSE, ...) Improve reporting of UEFI bootloaders in the log, with info on the Secure Boot status Fix an issue with size limitations when writing an uncompressed VHD back to the same drive Fix a crash when opening the log with the 32-bit MinGW compiled version Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1
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