winget install --id Rufus.RufusAbout Rufus
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. Features: - Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3 - 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 11 installation drives for PCs that don't have TPM or Secure...
What's new in 4.14
- Windows User Experience improvements: - Add a "Quality of Life" option, to disable Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other Microsoft forced nuisances - Add a Silent installation option, that automatically, and WITHOUT PROMPT, installs Windows on the first detected disk on the target platform - Add an option to copy SkuSiPolicy.p7b to the ESP on installation (please refer to KB5042562 for more info) - Add tooltips for all the dialog options - Add limited support for El-Torito UEFI image extraction (Mostly for Dell BIOS update ISOs) - Improve error report when the user tries to use an image that resides on the target drive - Improve the UEFI:NTFS partition label to make the install media more explicit during Windows Setup disk partitioning - Improve support for Bazzite and other Fedora derivatives that don't follow EFI conventions - Improve reporting of GRUB and Isolinux MBRs - Improve detection and exclusion of the new Bitdefender hidden VHDs (#2953) - Fix potential errors during creation of Windows To Go media, due to the use of new versions of bcdboot (#2940) - Fix errors with local accounts that start or end with whitespaces (#2950)
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 4.14 | Unknown | - Windows User Experience improvements: - Add a "Quality of Life" option, to disable Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other Microsoft forced nuisances - Add a Silent installation option, that automatically, and WITHOUT PROMPT... |
| 4.13 | Unknown | - Fix UEFI:NTFS not selecting the proper driver for ARM/ARM64 - Update embedded GRUB to v2.14 |
| 4.12 | Unknown | - Filter out the new Bitdefender VHDs - Filter disallowed characters in local account names - Improve Microsoft Dev Drive detection (#2873, courtesy of @MartinKuschnik) - Improve the pre-formatting partition cleanup code... |
| 4.11 | Unknown | - Add a cheat mode (Ctrl-Alt-D) to toggle between Light and Dark mode (#2814) - Improve WUE option text relating to the CA 2023 option - Update Linux SBAT / Microsoft SVN Secure Boot revocation values to latest - Fix som... |
| 4.10 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 4.9 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 4.8 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 4.7 | Unknown | - 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 GU... |
| 4.6 | Unknown | - Add a new setup.exe wrapper to bypass Windows 11 24H2 in-place upgrade restrictions (#2568) - Add TimeZone to regional options replication (#2499) - Set local account passwords to not expire by default - Fix an error w... |
| 4.5 | Unknown | - Add new advanced option to perform runtime UEFI media validation of 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 b... |
| 4.4 | Unknown | - 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 MB... |
| 4.3 | Unknown | - Add support for symbolic link 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 D... |
| 4.2 | Unknown | - Add detection and warning for UEFI revoked bootloaders (including ones revoked through SkuSiPolicy.p7b) (#2244) - Add ZIP64 support, to extract .zip images that are larger than 4 GB (#2264) - Add saving and restoring c... |
| 4.1 | Unknown | What's Changed - 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 incompat... |
| 4.0 | Unknown | - Fix persistent partition not working with Ubuntu 23.04 (#2231) - Fix out-of-range pointer error with Ubuntu 23.04 when booting in BIOS mode (#2233) - Fix boot freeze with Ubuntu Studio when Secure Boot is enabled (#221... |
| 3.22 | Unknown | - Allow the provision of an arbitrary local account username in the Windows User Experience dialog - Improve Windows version reporting from ISO/.wim - Update UEFI:NTFS' NTFS drivers to v1.4 and exFAT drivers to v1.9 - Sw... |
| 3.21 | Unknown | - Allow the provision of an arbitrary local account username in the Windows User Experience dialog - Improve Windows version reporting from ISO/.wim - Update UEFI:NTFS' NTFS drivers to v1.4 and exFAT drivers to v1.9 - Sw... |
| 3.20 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 3.19 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 3.13.1730.0 | Unknown | No notes |