Rufus can also be used to compute the MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 hashes of the currently selected image. It supports formatting flash drives using FAT, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, UDF and ReFS filesystems. It also allows the installation of MS-DOS or FreeDOS onto a flash drive as well as the creation of Windows To Go bootable media.
If needed, it will install a bootloader such as SYSLINUX or GRUB onto the flash drive to render it bootable. iso files, as well as raw disk image files (including compressed ones). iso files, including various Linux distributions and Windows installation. The last version compatible with Windows XP and Vista is 2.18. UEFI boot support was introduced with version 1.3.2, localization with 1.4.0 and Windows To Go with 2.0. Until 1.2.0, two separate versions were provided, with one for MS-DOS and one for FreeDOS. Version 1.0.4 introduced FreeDOS support and version 1.1.0 introduced ISO image support. The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only ), was released on December 11, 2011, with originally only MS-DOS support. The developers should consider adding options to download certain Linux distribution ISOs as well in upcoming releases.Rufus was originally designed as a modern open source replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows, which was primarily used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. It should make the program more useful even though it is not too hard to visit the official Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 download pages on the Microsoft website to download the images manually.Īll in all a welcome change. The integration of download options for Windows ISO images is a welcome addition to Rufus. If you run into the same issue you may download the PowerShell script manually and run it to get a Windows ISO image that way. Rufus 3.5 is available as a beta currently and bugs like this are to be expected. The selection menu was displayed only on one device that I ran Rufus on while it was not displayed on another.
Make sure that you have enough free disk space to store it on the device. Once downloaded, you may create a bootable USB drive using the downloaded ISO image. The script downloads the selected ISO image from Microsoft.
If you just want to grab that, you can do so here on GitHub. Tip: The Fido script is available as a standalone PowerShell script as well. You need to select the interface language in the last step. For Windows 8.1, regular and Professional were offered (plus special versions such as Windows 8.1 N). For Windows 10, Windows 10 Home/Pro, or Windows 10 Education were offered. You are then asked to select the edition that you want to download. Selections are quite good: you may download Windows 10 version 1809, 1803, 1707, and even earlier versions of Windows using the new download options.
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