Rufus 4.8.2250 Beta

Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need! Oh, and Rufus is fast. For 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 (with honorable mention to WiNToBootic for managing to keep up). It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USBs from ISOs. A non-exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISOs is available here.

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

Rufus 4.8.2250 Beta changelog:

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)

Other changes

• 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

Download: Rufus 4.8 | 2.0 MB (Open Source)
Links: Rufus Home Page | GitHub | Screenshot

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