About Rufus
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
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
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. It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs.
Usage
Download the executable and run it – no installation is necessary.
(1) Speed comparison between Rufus and other applications
The following tests were carried out on a Windows 7 x64 Core 2 duo/4 GB RAM platform, with an USB 3.0 controller and a 16 GB USB 3.0 ADATA S102 flash drive.
| • | Windows 7 x64 | : | en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_618240.iso |
| Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool v1.0.30 | 00:08:10 |
| Universal USB Installer v1.8.7.5 | 00:07:10 |
| UNetbootin v1.1.1.1 | 00:06:20 |
| RMPrepUSB v2.1.638 | 00:04:10 |
| WiNToBootic v1.2 | 00:03:35 |
| Rufus v1.1.1 | 00:03:25 |
| • | Ubuntu 11.10 x86 | : | ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso |
| UNetbootin v1.1.1.1 | 00:01:45 |
| RMPrepUSB v2.1.638 | 00:01:35 |
| Universal USB Installer v1.8.7.5 | 00:01:20 |
| Rufus v1.1.1 | 00:01:15 |
| • | Slackware 13.37 x86 | : | slackware-13.37-install-dvd.iso |
| UNetbootin v1.1.1.1 | 01:00:00+ |
| Universal USB Installer v1.8.7.5 | 00:24:35 |
| RMPrepUSB v2.1.638 | 00:22:45 |
| Rufus v1.1.1 | 00:20:15 |
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