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Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
Features:
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- Formats USB flash drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/exFAT
- Creates DOS bootable USB drives, with no external files required
v1.1.1 (#139) * Also make SysLinux non-optional
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- Creates bootable USB drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
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- Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO->USB (1)
- Bad blocks check
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- Modern UI, with UAC elevation for Windows Vista and later
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- Very small footprint, no installation required
[core] only allow removable drives to be listed * Our detection code, which is based on the HPUSBFW utility, allows fixed drives such as USB HDDs to be listed * Since Rufus lacks extra precautions for fixed disks, this may result in people mistakenly formatting and HDD instead of a flash drive * Until we have added HDD specific features (support for repartitioning or existing partitions, >32GB FAT32, etc.) we prefer playing it safe by not listing fixed disks. * We will re-enable fixed disks when we feel enough safeties are in place * Also fix an issue where ISO selection could crash if Rufus was compiled for Vista and later and update version to rufus-next
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- 100% Free Source Software (GPL v3)
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Compilation:
Use either Visual Studio 2010, WDK (Windows Driver Kit) or MinGW and then
invoke the .sln, wdk_build.cmd or configure/make respectively.
[msvc] move FreeDOS config option to a header file * use toplevel ms-config.h for options, rather than duplicate project files * applies for MSVC and WDK
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You can change the project options (FreeDOS support, etc) by editing the top-level
ms-config.h (Visual Studio, WDK) or running "./configure --help" (MinGW).
Additional information:
[syslinux] reverted Syslinux resources to vanilla 4.0.5 * also added the full usb.ico from PC Unleashed for future reference
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Rufus provides extensive information about what it is doing through the Windows
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debug facility. This info can be accessed with an application such as DebugView.
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More info:
[fat] use ms-sys' partition_info source to correct Disk Drive ID * Disk Drive ID fixup for FAT32 was already available in ms-sys with option -p * modified code to add FAT16 as well as FAT32 support as well as minor fixes * reverts previous patch write_fat_32_br() and write_fat_16_br()
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http://rufus.akeo.ie
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Enhancements/Bugs
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues
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(1) 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.
ISO: en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_618240.iso
- Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool v1.0.30: 8 mins 10s
- UNetbootin v1.1.1.1: 6 mins 20s
- Rufus v1.1.0: 3 mins 25s
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