Rufus Obtain Free – 4.15

Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. Oh, and Rufus is quick.
It may be particularly helpful for instances the place:

You have to create USB set up media from bootable ISOs (Home windows, Linux, UEFI, and so on.)
You have to work on a system that does not have an OS put in
You have to flash a BIOS or different firmware from DOS
You need to run a low-level utility

Regardless of its small measurement, Rufus supplies all the things you want.

Can Rufus create each BIOS and UEFI bootable drives?

Sure, Rufus helps creating bootable USB drives for each conventional BIOS and trendy UEFI programs, making it versatile for various PC setups.

What working programs can Rufus run on?

Rufus works on Home windows (Home windows 7 and later). Nevertheless, the USB drives it creates can be utilized in addition and set up varied working programs, together with Home windows, Linux distributions, and extra.

Do I would like to put in Rufus?

No set up is required. Rufus is a transportable application-you merely obtain the .exe file and run it immediately.

Can Rufus verify if my USB drive has dangerous sectors?

Sure, Rufus consists of an choice to scan your USB drive for dangerous blocks earlier than making a bootable disk. This helps guarantee reliability and reduces the possibility of set up errors.

Does Rufus work with out an web connection?

Sure, As soon as you have downloaded Rufus, you should use it offline to create bootable drives. The one time it’s possible you’ll want web entry is that if Rufus affords to obtain sure information (like the newest Home windows ISO) immediately for you.

Non-exhaustive record of ISOs Rufus is understood to work with:

AlmaLinux, Arch Linux, Archboot, CentOS, Clonezilla, Rattling Small Linux, Debian, Elementary OS, Fedora, FreeDOS, Garuda Linux, Gentoo, GParted, Hiren’s Boot CD, Kali Linux, Knoppix, KolibriOS, Linux Mint, Manjaro Linux, NT Password Registry Editor, OpenSUSE, Raspberry Pi OS, Raspbian, ReactOS, Crimson Hat, rEFInd, Rocky Linux, Slackware, Tremendous Grub2 Disk, Tails, Trinity Rescue Package, TrueNAS CORE, Ubuntu, UEFI Shell, Final Boot CD, Home windows XP (SP2+), Home windows Vista, Home windows 7, Home windows 8/8.1, Home windows 10, Home windows Server 2019, Home windows 11.

What’s New

Rufus 4.15

Add RISC-V 64 assist to UEFI:NTFS.
Enhance the guards for utilizing the “silent” Home windows set up possibility.
Enhance the flexibility to cancel throughout write retries.
Enhance progress reporting for compressed picture extraction.
Repair unrestricted XML entity growth and integer overflow in ezxml parser (courtesy of Eric Sadowski).
Repair “silent” Home windows set up failing at 75% typically.
Repair a crash throughout boot when utilizing UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based mostly ARM64 platforms.
Repair first WUE possibility all the time being checked by default.
Repair an infinite loop when utilizing Home windows ISOs that comprise a number of WIMs.
Repair “Allow runtime UEFI media validation” checkbox not all the time being correctly enabled.
Different WUE enhancements/fixes for OneDrive elimination and username validation (with due to @christian8641).

Rufus 4.14 Changelog

Home windows Consumer Expertise enhancements:
- Add a High quality of Life possibility, to disable Groups, Outlook, Copilot and different Microsoft pressured nuisances
- Add a Silent set up possibility, that routinely, and WITHOUT PROMPT, installs Home windows on the primary detected disk
- Add an possibility to repeat SkuSiPolicy.p7b to the ESP on set up (please consult with KB5042562 for more information)
- Add tooltips for all of the dialog choices
Add restricted assist for El-Torito UEFI picture extraction (Largely for Dell BIOS replace ISOs)
Enhance error report when the consumer tries to make use of a picture that resides on the goal drive
Enhance the UEFI:NTFS partition label to make the set up media extra specific throughout Home windows Setup disk partitioning
Enhance assist for Bazzite and different Fedora derivatives that do not observe EFI conventions
Enhance detection and exclusion of the brand new Bitdefender hidden VHDs
Enhance reporting of GRUB and Isolinux MBRs
Repair potential errors throughout creation of Home windows To Go media, attributable to the usage of new variations of bcdboot
Repair errors with native accounts that begin or finish with whitespaces

Rufus 4.13 Changelog

Repair UEFI:NTFS not choosing the right driver for ARM/ARM64.
Replace embedded GRUB to v2.14.

Rufus 4.12 Changelog

Filter out the brand new Bitdefender VHDs.
Filter disallowed characters in native account names.
Enhance Microsoft Dev Drive detection (courtesy of Martin Kuschnik).
Enhance the pre-formatting partition cleanup code.
Enhance error reporting on ISO extraction points.
Enhance detection of drives with lengthy {hardware} IDs (sometimes SSDs).
Enhance conflicting course of reporting.
Enhance assist for Nutanix and umbrelOS ISOs.
Repair a TOCTOU vulnerability in Fido script execution (CVE-2026-2398, reported by @independent-arg).
Repair alternative vulnerabilities for diskcopy.dll and oscdimg.exe.
Repair FFU picture creation being erroneously invocated, when making an attempt to avoid wasting an ISO picture.
Repair saving of ISO pictures to paths that comprise areas.
Replace UEFI:NTFS and UEFI DBXs to newest.

Rufus 4.11 Changelog:

Add a cheat mode to toggle between Gentle and Darkish mode.
Enhance WUE possibility textual content referring to the CA 2023 possibility.
For more information on CA 2023, see this Rufus FAQ entry.
Replace Linux SBAT / Microsoft SVN Safe Boot revocation values to newest.
Repair some GRUB/Syslinux obtain dialogs exhibiting solely the ‘Shut’ button.
Repair an assert being triggered when utilizing the WUE CA 2023 possibility by itself.
Repair an software crash on programs which have a failed dynamic disk.

Rufus 4.10 Changelog:

Add Darkish Mode assist (courtesy of @ozone10).
Add assist for creating Home windows CA 2023 suitable media (requires a Home windows 11 25H2 ISO). For extra on this, see this Rufus FAQ entry.
Add assist for saving an present drive to ISO (UDF solely).
Enhance error reporting when saving to VHD/VHDX (with due to @Kazkans).
Enhance persistence assist for Linux Mint.
Repair UEFI DBX updates being reported in some timezones, even when there are none.
Repair a state of affairs the place no file system may be chosen in ISO mode.
Repair a crash when making an attempt to course of Home windows ISOs with very lengthy paths.

Rufus 4.9 Changelog:

Repair downloads from https://rufus.ie not working attributable to latest GitHub server modifications
Repair unofficial Home windows ISOs, with single index WIMs, not presenting the WUE dialog
Swap to wimlib for all WIM picture processing:
- Enormously hastens picture evaluation when opening Home windows ISOs
- Can pace up Home windows To Go drive creation (However will not do miracles you probably have a crap drive)
- May assist with Parallels limitations on Mac (However Rufus on Parallels remains to be unsupported)
- Permits the splitting of >4GB information with Alt-E (However nonetheless WAY SLOWER than utilizing UEFI:NTFS)
Swap to utilizing Visible Studio binaries all over the place, attributable to MinGW DLL delay-loading limitations
Add extra exceptions for Linux ISOs that prohibit themselves to DD mode (Nobara, openSUSE, …)
Enhance reporting of UEFI bootloaders within the log, with information on the Safe Boot standing
Repair a problem with measurement limitations when writing an uncompressed VHD again to the identical drive
Repair a crash when opening the log with the 32-bit MinGW compiled model
Repair commandline parameters not being forwarded to authentic Home windows setup.exe

Rufus 4.7 Changelog

Add a mechanism to detect and obtain up to date DBXs from the official UEFI repository
Add ztsd compression assist for disk pictures
Add a brand new exclusion characteristic within the settings, to disregard disks with a particular GPT GUID
Enhance detection for compressed VHD pictures which are too massive to suit the goal drive
Repair commandline hogger not being deleted when working Rufus from a unique listing
Repair FAT filenames from embedded pictures being probably truncated on picture extraction
Repair a side-loading vulnerability [CVE-2025-26624] with cfgmgr32.dll (with due to @EmperialX)
Repair UI reminiscence leaks (courtesy of @ozone10)
Fall again to consumer/system default locale when getting error description (courtesy of @Wack0)
Do not run the commandline hogger on POSIX shells
Drop ARM 32-bit builds (Notice that ARM 64-bit builds are NOT affected by this)
Replace FreeDOS and Grub4DOS to newest

Rufus 4.6 Changelog

Add a brand new setup.exe wrapper to bypass Home windows 11 24H2 in-place improve restrictions
Add TimeZone to regional choices replication
Set native account passwords to not expire by default
Repair an error when making an attempt to write down compressed VHD pictures
Repair an error when invoking Rufus from the PowerShell commandline
Enhance revoked UEFI bootloaders verify to assist Linux SBAT, Home windows SVN and cert DBX
Enhance assist for ReactOS boot media

Rufus 4.4 launch notes:

Add workaround for distros that use damaged symbolic hyperlinks as their UEFI bootloaders (akin to Mint 21.3)
Add assist for GRUB 2.12
Repair a crash when saving .ffu pictures
Repair UEFI:NTFS partition not being added, in MBR mode, for some Linux ISOs
Stop Microsoft Dev Drives from being listed
Enhance assist for SDXC card readers
Enhance Massive FAT32 formatting by aligning begin of information areas to 1 MB (courtesy of Fred)

Rufus 4.3 launch notes: