Rufus 4.9.2256 freeware

The tool is wrapped in a user-friendly interface that resembles the Format panel found in Windows built-in features. You can select a device, partition scheme and target system type, file system type (FAT32, NTFS, UDF, exFAT), cluster size, and new volume label. ...

Author Pete Batard
Released 2025-06-16
Filesize 1.50 MB
Downloads 1302
OS Windows 11, Windows 10 32/64 bit, Windows 8 32/64 bit, Windows 7 32/64 bit, Windows Vista, Windows XP 32/64 bit
Installation Instal And Uninstall
Keywords Rufus, download Rufus, Bootable USB Creator, Bootable Drive Creator, Format USB, Bootable USB, Bootable Drive, Boot, Format
Users' rating
(42 rating)
RufusSystem MaintenanceWindows 11, Windows 10 32/64 bit, Windows 8 32/64 bit, Windows 7 32/64 bit, Windows Vista, Windows XP 32/64 bit
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Rufus freeware - The Latest Versions History
4.9.2256 Jun 16, 2025 New Release Fix downloads from https://rufus.ie no longer working due to recent GitHub server changes
Fix unofficial Windows ISOs, with single index WIMs, not presenting the WUE dialog
Also from Rufus 4.8:
Switch to wimlib for all WIM image processing:
Greatly speeds up image analysis when opening Windows ISOs
Can speed up Windows To Go drive creation (But won't do miracles if you have a crap drive)
Might help with Parallels limitations on Mac (But Rufus on Parallels is still unsupported)
Enables the splitting of >4GB files with Alt-E (But still WAY SLOWER than using UEFI:NTFS)
Switch to using Visual Studio binaries everywhere, due to MinGW DLL delay-loading limitations
Add more exceptions for Linux ISOs that restrict themselves to DD mode (Nobara, openSUSE, ...)
Improve reporting of UEFI bootloaders in the log, with info on the Secure Boot status
Fix an issue with size limitations when writing an uncompressed VHD back to the same drive
Fix a crash when opening the log with the 32-bit MinGW compiled version
Fix commandline parameters not being forwarded to original Windows setup.exe
4.8.2253 Jun 12, 2025 New Release Add a mechanism to detect and download updated DBXs from the official UEFI repository
Add ztsd compression support for disk images
Add a new exclusion feature in the settings, to ignore disks with a specific GPT GUID
Improve detection for compressed VHD images that are too large to fit the target drive
Fix commandline hogger not being deleted when running Rufus from a different directory
Fix FAT filenames from embedded images being potentially truncated on image extraction
Fix a side-loading vulnerability [CVE-2025-26624] with cfgmgr32.dll (with thanks to @EmperialX)
Fix UI memory leaks (courtesy of @ozone10)
Fall back to user/system default locale when getting error description (courtesy of @Wack0)
Don't run the commandline hogger on POSIX shells
Drop ARM 32-bit builds (Note that ARM 64-bit builds are NOT affected by this)
Update FreeDOS and Grub4DOS to latest
4.7.2231 Apr 10, 2025 New Release Add a mechanism to detect and download updated DBXs from the official UEFI repository
Add ztsd compression support for disk images
Add a new exclusion feature in the settings, to ignore disks with a specific GPT GUID
Improve detection for compressed VHD images that are too large to fit the target drive
Fix commandline hogger not being deleted when running Rufus from a different directory
Fix FAT filenames from embedded images being potentially truncated on image extraction
Fix a side-loading vulnerability [CVE-2025-26624] with cfgmgr32.dll (with thanks to @EmperialX)
Fix UI memory leaks (courtesy of @ozone10)
Fall back to user/system default locale when getting error description (courtesy of @Wack0)
Don't run the commandline hogger on POSIX shells
Drop ARM 32-bit builds (Note that ARM 64-bit builds are NOT affected by this)
Update FreeDOS and Grub4DOS to latest

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