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Rufus

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RUFUS

Description
•Rufus is a small utility that helps format
and create bootable USB flash drives, such
as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks,
etc. It can be be especially useful for cases
where: you need to create USB
installation media from bootable ISOs
(Windows, Linux, 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 is significantly
faster than similar utilities and it's open
source and free.
Use Rufus to Create Bootable USB Drive

1. First, download Rufus if you haven’t already.


Along with a regular installer, Rufus also comes in a
portable variant. Download the portable version if
you don’t want to install Rufus on your system. In
my case I’ve downloaded the portable version.
After downloading, install and open Rufus.
2. Plug in the USB
drive, and you will
instantly see it in
the top drop-down
menu. Once you
see the drive, click
on the “Select”
button.
3. In the Browse
window go to where
you’ve stored your ISO
file, select it, and click
on the “Open” button. In
my case, as I wanted to
create an Ubuntu
bootable USB drive, I
selected the Ubuntu
ISO. You can choose the
ISO of your choice
4. (Optional) If you want to, click on the little “Tick” icon
next to the “Boot Selection” drop-down menu to compute and
see the MD5, SHA1, and SHA256 checksums of the ISO file.
This is useful to verify if the ISO file has been tampered with
in any way.
5. Select “MBR”
from the Partition
Scheme drop-down
menu and “BIOS or
UEFI” from the
Target System drop-
down menu. If you
are trying to use this
bootable USB drive
on an old system,
select the “Add fixes
for old BIOSes”
checkbox under the
“Advanced Drive
Properties” section
6. (Optional) You can
change the USB drive name
using the “Volume Label”
field. Additionally, under
“Advanced Format
Options” make sure that the
Quick Format” checkbox is
selected. As the name
implies, Quick Format
formats the drive quicker
by skipping the check for
bad sectors.
7. Click on the “Start”
button.
8. Depending on the ISO file, Rufus may prompt you to
download additional files. For instance, to create a bootable
Ubuntu drive, Rufus prompts you to download the newer
version of Syslinux. Just click on the “Yes” button, and Rufus
will take care of everything.
9. In the next prompt, select the recommended “Write in ISO
image mode” option, and click on the “OK” button. You might
also see a drive format warning – click on the “OK” button
10. As soon as you
click on the button,
Rufus starts to create
the bootable USB
drive. Depending on
your USB drive, it
can take a few
minutes to complete
the creation process
11. Once completed, you
will not see a completion
message but will hear a
completion sound, and
the progress bar will turn
fully green

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