38,305
stars
+13
3,209
forks
615
watchers
278
prs
2,731
issues
91
releases
0
discussions
README
Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility ========================================== !Rufus logo 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 Boot Create Windows To Go drives Create VHD/DD, VHDX and FFU images of an existing drive Create persistent Linux partitions Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums of the selected image Perform runtime validation of UEFI bootable media Improve Windows installation experience by automatically setting up OOBE parameters (local account, privacy options, etc.) Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives Download official Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 10 or Windows 11 retail ISOs Download UEFI Shell ISOs Modern and familiar UI, with 38 languages natively supported Small footprint. No installation required. Portable. Secure Boot compatible. 100% Free Software (GPL v3) Compilation ----------- Use either Visual Studio 2026 or MinGW and then invoke the .sln or configure/make respectively. Visual Studio Rufus is an OSI compliant Open Source project. You are entitled to download and use the freely available Visual Studio Community Edition 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. Additional information ---------------------- Rufus provides extensive information about what it is doing, either through its easily accessible log, or through the Windows debug facility. __Official Website__ FAQ Security and safety measures Enhancements/Bugs ----------------- Please use the GitHub issue tracker for reporting problems or suggesting new features.
Top issues
#2244Warn if media is no longer bootable through Secure Boot, due to the revocation of Microsoft's PCA2011 certificate201 comments · 2023-05-12#111Command line arguments72 comments · 2012-12-12#1778[0xC0030002] The system cannot find the file specified.8 comments · 2021-09-17#3003"Enable runtime UEFI media validation" checkbox breaks Ubuntu 26.04 installer6 comments · 2026-06-23#2877Feature request: "Disable BitLocker automatic device encryption" for Windows-to-Go installations6 comments · 2025-12-13#1688Feature request: Add button mnemonics4 comments · 2021-01-26#322Support custom file operations during ISO extraction4 comments · 2014-04-28#3075[INTERNAL] List of rufus-4.17 enhancements and fixes0 comments · 2026-11-01
Latest release
Rufus 4.15 v4.15 2026-06-30Add RISC-V 64 support to UEFI:NTFS Improve the guards for using the _"silent"_ Windows installation option Improve the ability to cancel during write retries Improve progress reporting for compressed image extraction Fix unrestricted XML entity expansion and integer overflow in ezxml parser (courtesy of @esadowski4) [GHSA-55r2-34wg-8mv9] Fix _"silent"_ Windows installation failing at 75% in most cases [2960] Fix a crash during boot when using UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based ARM64 platforms [2934] Fix first WUE option always being checked by default [2965] Fix an infinite loop w