Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Create boot able USB drives the easy way  Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB key...

Create boot able USB drives the easy way

 Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
It can be especially useful for cases where:

• you need to create USB installation media from boot able ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
• you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
• you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
• you want to run a low-level utility

Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need!
Oh, and Rufus is fast. For instance it's about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO (with honorable mention to WiNToBootic for managing to keep up). It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs
A non exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISOs is also provided at the bottom of this page .

• Rufus v1.3.4 (459 KB)
• Chinese version / 中國版 (PARTIALLY TRANSLATED, 497 KB) [updated 2013.07.24]
• Other versions

From version 1.2.0, a single version of Rufus is provided, that includes FreeDOS support.
Once downloaded, the application is ready to use — no installation or other files are necessary.

System Requirements:

Windows XP or later. 32 or 64 bit doesn't matter.