Rufus is a standalone app designed to format and create a bootable USB drive for a large variety of ISOs. The app is just over 1MB in size and is notably faster than similar competitor apps such as the Windows 7 USB utility, Universal USB Installer, and UNetbootin.
Rufus can come in handy when you need to simply format a USB drive, install an OS on a machine that lacks a CD/DVD-ROM drive, or when you need to boot an operating system temporarily without intentions of actually installing the media. This can be immensely useful while you're on the go or just need access to an OS for a temporary, isolated reason. The app can even be used to flash firmware to BIOS or other destinations by just using DOS.
Even though Rufus is a tiny utility in comparison to other USB creation tools that can be rather bulky in size, it contends easily with the competition and creates bootable USB drives in record time!
Features
- Bootable USB Drive (USB keys, pendrive, memory stick, etc)
- USB instillation media from bootable ISOs
- flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
- low-level utility
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Useful software, I use it to create all kind of bootable medias
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Time and again, i have used Rufus to create bootable USB drives to install and live boot my favorite linux flavors . I highly recommend this software if you want to create a bootable disk, it is simple and straight to the point. The ui is basic and does not come with fancy features, but it makes this a light project, can quickly download it and make that live boot USB!
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this is used to change your operating system?
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Rufus is a utility used to format and create bootable USB media, such as "USB sticks", memory cards, etc.
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Under Windows it works great. Under Linux, MX has not tried it yet.