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* Full Flash Update (FFU) image support was added to dism with Windows 10 1709 and is an alternate way to save a virtual hard disk for restoration. * While more modern than VHD/VHDX, FFU creation only works for drives with file systems that Windows natively recognizes (FAT, NTFS) and that look like Windows installation media, so you can forget about FFU'ing a Linux disk. * The other *intentional* drawback that Microsoft added is that they don't want anybody but themselves being able to create and restore FFU images, so, even as they have nice FfuApplyImage()/FfuCaptureImage() calls in FfuProvider.dll they have decided not to make these public. * This means that, since we don't have time to spend on figuring and direct hooking internal DLL calls for x86_32, x86_64, ARM and ARM64 (and worrying that Microsoft may ever so slightly change their DLL between revs to break our hooks), we just call on dism.exe behind the scenes to create the FFU. |
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Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives.
Features
- Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3
- Create DOS bootable USB drives using FreeDOS or MS-DOS
- Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS
- Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
- Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones
- Create Windows 11 installation drives for PCs that don't have TPM or Secure Boot
- Create Windows To Go drives
- Create persistent Linux partitions
- Create VHD/DD images of a drive
- Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums of the selected image
- Improve Windows installation experience by automatically setting up OOBE parameters (local account, privacy options, etc.)
- Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives
- Download official Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 10 or Windows 11 retail ISOs
- Download UEFI Shell ISOs
- Modern and familiar UI, with 38 languages natively supported
- Small footprint. No installation required.
- Portable. Secure Boot compatible.
- 100% Free Software (GPL v3)
Compilation
Use either Visual Studio 2022 or MinGW and then invoke the .sln or configure/make respectively.
Visual Studio
Rufus is an OSI compliant Open Source project. You are entitled to download and use the freely available Visual Studio Community Edition to build, run or develop for Rufus. As per the Visual Studio Community Edition license, this applies regardless of whether you are an individual or a corporate user.
Additional information
Rufus provides extensive information about what it is doing, either through its easily accessible log, or through the Windows debug facility.
Enhancements/Bugs
Please use the GitHub issue tracker for reporting problems or suggesting new features.