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* In a manner that defies logic, Microsoft designed Windows setup to parse Autounattend.xml for windowsPE tasks in the PE environment, but only carry out the copying of that file to %WINDIR%\Panther for subsequent processing with the other passes *IF* there exist an actual windowsPE section. * In short, when using the Autounattend.xml method, Microsoft have made all passes there dependent on the existence of a windowsPE pass, regardless of whether that pass has any use or not. * Working around this would be fine and all (just add an empty windowsPE pass so that the later passes get executed) if the absence of a windowsPE pass didn't also determine whether the user will be presented with the default Windows setup screens that include the "Repair your computer" option or a completely different set of screens (c.f. #1971). * This means that, to keep users happy, we need to add yet another method to carry out tasks that should have remained the realm of boot.wim's Autounattend.xml, and instead create a \sources\$OEM$\$$\Panther\unattend.xml when there are no windowsPE tasks (on account that setup copies anything found under \sources\$OEM$\$$\ to %WINDIR%\). Only through this can we have the specialize and oobeSystem tasks actually carried out (for bypassing MSA requirements of skipping the data collection screens) while keeping the original Windows Setup look and feel. * Closes #1981 |
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README.md
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 11 installation drives for PCs that don't have TPM
- 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
- Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives
- Download official Microsoft Windows 7, 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.