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* Due to the partition gymnastic that is required by the hack that is ISOHybrid, some ISOHybrid images that are written in DD mode, such as Ubuntu 20.10, may result in Windows somehow "losing" the target disk from some of its listings. * This "removal" can be seen for instance if you have diskpart already open and issue 'list disk' after Rufus 3.13 completed its image writing. * In the worst case scenario, Windows may flat out refuse to access the disk at the sector level be it in diskpart or disk manager, which forces ones to clear the partition tables on Linux or some other OS to be able to "recover" the disk. * This appears to be mostly due to Windows VDS cache (which Microsoft assures should be able to do a proper job of refreshing itself on its own, in the same stride as they also feel the need to introduce IVdsService::Refresh whose sole purpose appears to work around a limitation that Microsoft knows exists) not being in sync with the actual disk layout. * So we now add calls to VDS layout refresh where needed, to work around the issue. * Also fix an ext2fs Coverity warning. |
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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 (Windows 8.1 or earlier)
- 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 To Go drives
- Create persistent Linux partitions
- Download official Microsoft Windows 8 or Windows 10 retail ISOs
- Compute MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 checksums of the selected image
- Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO → USB creation (1)
- Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives
- Modern and familiar UI, with 38 languages natively supported
- Small footprint. No installation required.
- Portable
- 100% Free Software (GPL v3)
Compilation
Use either Visual Studio 2019 (version 16.0 or later with SDK 10.0.18362 installed) 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.
(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
| Name of tool | Version | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Windows 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 |