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Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
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Features
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* Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3
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* Create DOS bootable USB drives, using [FreeDOS ](http://www.freedos.org ) or MS-DOS (Windows 8.1 or earlier)
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* Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including [UEFI bootable NTFS ](https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs )
* Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
* Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones
* Create [Windows To Go ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_To_Go ) drives
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* Create persistent Linux partitions
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* Download official Microsoft Windows 8 or Windows 10 retail ISOs
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* Compute MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 checksums of the selected image
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* Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO -> USB creation < sup > (1)</ sup >
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* Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives
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* Modern and familiar UI, with [38 languages natively supported ](https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#What_languages_are_natively_supported_by_Rufus )
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* Small footprint. No installation required.
* Portable
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* 100% [Free Software ](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw ) ([GPL v3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0))
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Compilation
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Use either Visual Studio 2017 (version 15.8 or later with SDK 10.0.17134 installed) or MinGW and
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then invoke the `.sln` or `configure` /`make` respectively.
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#### Visual Studio
Note that, since Rufus is an OSI compliant Open Source project, you are entitled to
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download and use the *freely available* [Visual Studio Community Edition ](https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/ )
to build, run or develop for Rufus. As per the Visual Studio Community Edition license
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this applies regardless of whether you are an individual or a corporate user.
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Additional information
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Rufus provides extensive information about what it is doing, either through its
easily accessible log, or through the [Windows debug facility ](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/debugview ).
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* [__Official Website__ ](https://rufus.ie )
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* [FAQ ](https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ )
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Enhancements/Bugs
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Please use the [GitHub issue tracker ](https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues )
for reporting problems or suggesting new features.
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< sup > (1)< / sup > Tests carried out with a 16 GB USB 3.0 ADATA pen drive on a Core 2 duo/4 GB RAM platform running Windows 7 x64.
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ISO: `en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_618240.iso`
| Name of tool | Version | Time |
| ------------ | ------- | ---- |
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| [Windows USB/DVD Download Tool ](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool ) | v1.0.30 | 8 mins 10s |
| [UNetbootin ](https://unetbootin.github.io ) | v1.1.1.1 | 6 mins 20s |
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| **Rufus** | v1.1.0 | **3 mins 25s** |
