Lightweight utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives

Rufus Portable

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Rufus Portable

  -  3.1 MB  -  Open Source
  • Latest Version

    Rufus Portable 4.3 LATEST

  • Review by

    Michael Reynolds

  • Operating System

    Windows 7 64 / Windows 8 64 / Windows 10 64 / Windows 11

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    Pete Batard / External Link

  • Filename

    RufusPortable_4.3.paf.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    772691dfe5a3f493cc9bab3b4ea45fe6

Rufus Portable is a utility that helps format and Create Bootable USB Flash Drives, such as USB keys or pen drives, memory sticks, etc. It can be especially useful for cases where you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.), to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed, to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS, and to run a low-level utility.

If you create a DOS bootable drive and use a non-US keyboard, Rufus Portable will attempt to select a keyboard layout according to the locale of your system. In that case, FreeDOS, which is the default selection, is recommended over MS-DOS, as it supports more keyboard layouts. Rufus Portable Free Download Latest Version for Windows PC. It is a full offline setup installer of the software.



Creating an ISO image from a physical disc or from a set of files is very easy to do however, through the use of a CD burning application, such as the freely available CDBurnerXP or BurnAware.

It can be especially useful for cases where:
  • you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
  • you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
  • you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
  • you want to run a low-level utility


  • Rufus Portable 4.3 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

- Add support for Rock Ridge symbolic links preservation when NTFS is used
- Add an exception to enforce NTFS for Linux Mint's LMDE
- Add an expert feature to restrict a Windows installation to S Mode
- Fix persistence support for Debian 12 when booted in BIOS mode
- Fix a regression that prevented the opening of .vhd images
- Update UEFI:NTFS to report a more explicit error on bootmgr security issues
- Improve the search for conflicting processes by running it in a background thread
- Improve support for Slax Linux

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