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Rufus




RUFUS


CREATE BOOTABLE USB DRIVES THE EASY WAY

Rufus is a utility designed to facilitate the formatting and creation of
bootable USB flash drives, including USB keys/pendrives and memory sticks.

This tool proves particularly beneficial in the following scenarios:

 * Creating USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI,
   etc.).
 * Working on a system without a pre-installed operating system.
 * Flashing a BIOS or other firmware from DOS.
 * Running low-level utility tasks.

Despite its compact size, Rufus offers comprehensive

functionality, providing all the necessary features for these purposes.

For user convenience, a non-exhaustive list of ISOs supported by Rufus is
available at the bottom of this page.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Windows 8 or later. Once downloaded, the application is ready to use.


USAGE:

To use Rufus, simply download the executable and run it – no installation is
required.

Ensure that the executable bears the following digital signatures:

 * “Akeo Consulting” (v1.3.0 or later)
 * “Pete Batard – Open Source Developer” (v1.2.0 or earlier)

For users creating a DOS bootable drive with a non-US keyboard, Rufus will
attempt to select a keyboard layout based on the locale of the system.

Regarding ISO support:

 * All Rufus versions 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 a set of files is easily
   achievable using a CD burning application like InfraRecorder or CDBurnerXP.


FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)


HELP, MY USB DRIVE IS NOT DETECTED!

Try to check the List USB Hard Drives option in the advanced options.



Alternatively, you can simply hit Alt-F.
Note however that formatting non-flash USB drives, such as USB HDDs, is not
officially supported for now. Use at your own risks!

As to the reason why Rufus does not list HDDs by default, it is explained
in this other FAQ entry.

If your drive is still not detected, the log (which can be accessed by clicking
the small ‘Log’ button left of ‘START’ or by pressing – may have more
information.

DEVICE NUMBER FOR DEVICE XYZ IS TOO BIG - IGNORING DEVICE

You may see this specific error in Rufus’ log if there are more than 64 drives
(either physical or virtual) currently mounted on your system as Rufus
intentionally limits the range of drive it may be able to access so that an
application error cannot result in a wrong drive being overwritten by mistake.

This is usually not an issue, as very few people use systems where they need
more than 64 drives. However, it is possible to run into this issue when using
the XBox PC Game application because it may create lots of hidden Virtual Drives
in the background without unmounting them (see this entry for details). It is
also possible that other applications may create a large amount of Virtual
Drives thus resulting in this issue.

If you are seeing this error, you may try to reboot your computer or temporarily
stop services that are creating Virtual Drives to see if that helps.


CONTACT US

 * +1 212 7 555 900
 * admin@therufus.org