Rufus is a free, portable and open-source utility that you can use to create bootable USB flash drives. Rufus is small in size, but it surprisingly has everything you need as far as the above are concerned. That is why it is the most popular bootable USB creation tool on earth. When your computer is crashed or could not boot into Windows, then Rufus will be in great help as it is able to create a bootable USB for OS installation in a super easy way. You might be wondering can I use Rufus on a Mac computer? We will give you the real answer in the following section.
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. It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs.
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Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. 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 USBs from ISOs. A non-exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISOs is available here.It can be especially useful for cases where:
You can also use a tool like Rufus to create a bootable USB drive (read dedicated section below) using the downloaded Windows 11 ISO. However, you will need to have a USB with atleast 6GB of storage to create a bootable drive.
YUMI (Your USB Multiboot Installer) is a Multiboot USB Boot Creator that can be used to make a Multisystem flash drive. This tool can quickly create a Multiboot bootable USB flash drive containing several different ISO files. Use it to boot from USB your favorite Live Linux portable Operating Systems, Linux and Windows Installers, antivirus utilities, disc cloning, backup, penetration testing, diagnostic tools, and much more. This Universal tool makes it easy for anyone to create their own customized multi purpose Bootable USB.
Update: To get the ISO for the official release of Windows 10, head to this Microsoft page and download the 64 or 32-bit version of the media creation tool. It will allow you to upgrade your Windows 7 SP 1 or Windows 8.1 PC or download the ISO to use later for a clean install. Also, make sure to check out our piece on creating a Windows 11 bootable flash drive.
Hello Brian,I am not necessarily expert. I use rufus to prepare the memory card 8gig, then use the window media creation tool to create the bootable stick. I put the stick on the laptop I want toboot press F12 and it take me to where I can choose the usb. I did and Winnow show dell logo, and boot to blank screen. Please advise
You can create bootable USB drive for Windows and almost all popular Linux distro such as Fedora, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, OpenSuse, Gentoo, Knoppix, etc. You can also create bootable USB drive to install or test Google Android OS in your Desktop PC or laptop. Just download a ported ISO file of Android OS and write it to your USB drive using this little tool.
Rufus is quite fast when you compare it with its compatriots. The speed is almost doubled as compared to Universal USB Installer and UNetbootin. The program is multilingual and is supporting almost all the major languages of the world so that you can utilize it with more efficiency. Universal USB Installer is another great tool to make bootable USB for windows and Linux.
Rufus is 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 a ISO. It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs.
SuSE Studio is another tool to create bootable usb from iso linux using graphical interface. This tool is by default available with SuSE distribution but for other distribution you can download the respective rpm from the official page
Using dd ISO to USB command you can create bootable USB from ISO linux command line without download any third party tools. You do not need graphical environment to use dd ISO to USB command for creating bootable USB drives. 2ff7e9595c
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