It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs. From the drop-down menu, connected devices are detected and selected easily.įor instance, it’s about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO. It allows fast selection of the desired device, partition scheme, and the particular system type, file system type (exFAT, FAT32, NTFS, UDF), the cluster size, as well as the new volume label. It comes in a very user-friendly interface that the majority of users will find to be quite like that of the Windows Format panel.

It will also record all activity which can then be saved to a LOG file.

It can be especially useful if you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.), need to work on a system without an operating system, you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS or if you just want to run a low-level utility.

Rufus is a small Open Source utility that helps quickly format and creates bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pen drives, memory sticks, etc.

Rufus software