Rufus

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Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

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 VHD/DD, VHDX and FFU images of an existing drive - Create persistent Linux partitions - Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums of the selected image - Perform runtime validation of UEFI bootable media - 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.