Rufus (The Reliable USB Formatting Utility, with Source) is a free and open-source portable application for Microsoft Windows that can be used to format and create bootable USB flash drives or Live USBs.

The first official release of Rufus was on December 04, 2011, seen then they were developing and adding move features to the Rufus then the users could do their work easily.

Rufus is a software program that can be used to create bootable USB drives. It supports a variety of bootable .iso files, including various Linux distributions and Windows installation .iso files, as well as raw disk image files. If needed, it can install a bootloader such as SYSLINUX or GRUB onto the flash drive to make it bootable. Rufus can also be used to format flash drives using different filesystems. Additionally, it can compute the MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 hashes of the currently selected image.

Rufus can also download retail ISO DVD images of Windows 8.1, and various builds of Windows 10 and Windows 11 directly from Microsoft's servers. However, this feature is only available if PowerShell 3.0 or later is installed, and 'Check for updates' is enabled in the program's settings.

Download the executable and run it – no installation is necessary.

System Requirements:
Windows 8 or later. Once downloaded, the application is ready to use.

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