Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. Small footprint. No installation required. Portable. Secure Boot compatible. Use either Visual Studio 2022 or MinGW and then invoke the.sln or configure / make respectively. Rufus is an OSI compliant Open Source project. 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 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 Rufus (The R eliable U SB F ormatting U tility, with S ource [5]) is a free and open-source portable application for Microsoft Windows that can be used to format and create bootable USB flash drives or Live USBs. 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. Get this app while signed in to your Microsoft account and install on up to ten Windows devices. This application is licensed under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL) version 3. See for details. The Reliable USB Formatting Utility. Contribute to pbatard/rufus development by creating an account on GitHub. Create bootable USB flash drives for Windows, Linux, UEFI, and more with the fastest and most reliable free tool. Download Rufus - One of the best tools to create bootable USB drives. Works on Windows, Linux, DOS, UEFI and Arm. rufus-2.18p.exe 2017-11-07 13:39 945K Rufus 2.18 (Portable Version, Last version compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista) rufus-2.18_arm.exe 2017-11-07 14:11 2.4M Rufus 2.18 (ARM Version).