Rufus is a utility that lets you create a bootable USB drive with any type of operating system. The program is suitable not only for creating bootable usb drives for OS, but also for any games on your PC. Thus, you will be able to install an OS or a game on your PC without having the original disk.
Benefits of Rufus
- Works with any type of Windows based operating systems starting from HP version.
- The latest version of the program is faster, so a boot disk on a usb drive or SD card will be created within a few minutes.
- Recognizes any type of ISO image and easily finds a common language with any type of the computer file system (Ext2/3, ReiserFS, SWAPFS, FAT12/FAT16/FAT32, NTFS etc.).
- It fully supports the English language.
Characteristics of Rufus
The utility does not require any resources on your computer. It runs without installing it onto your PC. The weight of the program is minimal.
Disadvantages of Rufus
Some of the program functions will only be understandable for advanced users, so a PC user won't be able to use Rufus 100%. However, basic PC knowledge is enough to write bootable usb drives correctly.
There are 2 versions in the archive - the usual exe installer and the portable version of the program. You can unpack the zip archive with any free archiver.