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Pete Batard 818fa4da88 [misc] pocketful of enhancement and fixes - part 5
* Check compressed DD images for boot capability
* Add DisableLGP setting
* Silence libcdio errors when scanning non ISO images
* Ensure UI displays "No image selected" when relevant
* Also update Bled to latest
2015-02-11 23:22:18 +00:00

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Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
Features:
- Formats USB flash drives as well as VHD images to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS
- Creates DOS bootable USB drives, using FreeDOS or MS-DOS with no external files required
- Creates MBR or GPT/UEFI bootable drives
- Creates bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
- Creates bootbale drives from disk images, including compressed ones
- Creates Windows To Go drives
- Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO->USB (1)
- Can perform bad blocks check, with fake drive detection
- Modern and familiar UI, with more than 30 languages natively supported (2)
- Small footprint, no installation required
- 100% Free Software (GPL v3)
Compilation:
Use either Visual Studio 2013, WDK 7.1 (Windows Driver Kit) or MinGW and then
invoke the .sln, wdk_build.cmd or configure/make respectively.
Note that, since Rufus is an OSI compliant Open Source project, you are entitled to
download and use the *freely available* Visual Studio 2013 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.
For details, see http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs
or http://pete.akeo.ie/2014/11/visual-studio-2013-has-now-become.html
Additional information:
Rufus provides extensive information about what it is doing, either through
its easily accessible log, or through the Windows debug facility.
More info:
http://rufus.akeo.ie
http://rufus.akeo.ie/FAQ
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
(2) http://rufus.akeo.ie/translations