Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility Features: - Formats USB flash drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/exFAT - Creates DOS bootable USB drives, with no external files required - Creates bootable USB drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.) - Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO->USB (1) - Bad blocks check - Modern UI, with UAC elevation for Windows Vista and later - Very small footprint, no installation required - Fully Open Source (GPL v3) Compilation: Use either Visual Studio 2010, WDK (Windows Driver Kit) or MinGW and then invoke the .sln, wdk_build.cmd or configure/make respectively. 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: Rufus provides extensive information about what it is doing through the Windows debug facility. This info can be accessed with an application such as DebugView. More info: http://rufus.akeo.ie Enhancements/Bugs https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues (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