Rufus it's a little free utility that will help you format and create bootable USB sticks, such as pendrives, flash memory, memory sticks and USB memories in general.
It is sophisticatedly designed for those cases where:
- You need create a USB installation a SO, whatever from a ISO (Linux, Windows, etc.).
- You need to work on a team with your own system, or for when you don't have one installed.
- Need to flash one BIOS or other firmware from DOS.
- You need to run a low-level utility.
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Rufus It is a 420 KB portable tool, it does not need to be installed and it is quite complete, powerful and efficient. Includes formatting support on NTFS, FAT, FAT32, exFAT, and other file systems. Among its advanced options you can define the size of the cluster, labels, and other suitable configurations for expert users with high demands.
Its interface in English is clear, clean, so there will be no complications to understand its use. It is compatible with Windows from its XP version onwards, 32-64 bits does not matter. As a fun fact, if we take a look at his website, a comparison between Rufus and other applications, according to it, it is far more advantageous in terms of speed, in addition to other characteristics.
Who know FreeDOS, I comment that booting the USB drives with Rufus, is based on and includes support from this good OS. FreeDOS it's basically like the old man MS-DOS, But much better!
Link: Rufus
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Personally I think it replaces both, as I have tried, but I hope it meets your expectations my estimate.
Have a good weekend Jose and thank you for being aware of my writings 😉
I was unaware of the existence of this application. I gave it a try and I think it is as good (or better) than Unetbootin and Wintoflash together. To my pen drive of good applications that goes.
Thank you friend.
Jose
Very good, it allows you to install wifislax and wifiway and that they boot correctly, without having to take other steps such as extracting the iso to the USB, and executing the bootinst file so that it can boot without problems.
Greetings and excellent blog
Actionglobal kike, How good that you liked it and it worked perfectly 😉
Greetings and thanks for the support friend!
Hi Marcelo, I need to know if it is possible to create in 4 GB usb. install an OS for it. (Linux) I think it will do the best for my pc, this pc has board problems and has disappeared so to speak, its OS had an XP, it is possible to make a pendrive with bios, boot and run an operating system the most convenient that you advise me and which are the programs to download in the pen, to perform this action, I have a pair of netbooks with win7, to create this bootable usb. thanks for your help, Fabio
Hello Fabio, yes, with this tool you can install any Linux distro, the one you like the most. By the way, I also recommend reading this article, maybe it will help you create a specific bootable version of the OS you need:
https://vidabytes.com/2011/10/como-instalar-linux-en-memorias-usb-3.html
From this other article you can get the portable applications for Linux, ideal for your USB memory. I would recommend that you use a minimum of 8 GB capacity.
https://vidabytes.com/2010/10/programas-portables-para-linux-gratis.html
I hope I have helped you, thank you for the visit.
A greeting.