Lightweight utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives

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Rufus 4.8

  -  2.01 MB  -  Open Source
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Security Status

  • Latest Version

    Rufus 4.11

  • 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

    rufus-4.8.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    96e7d9acff29770e15c8c2fa0bc92c5a

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Rufus 4.8.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of Rufus or reading our review, simply click here.


All old versions distributed on our website are completely virus-free and available for download at no cost.


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What's new in this version:

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

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