Lightweight utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives

Rufus Portable

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Rufus Portable

  -  3.28 MB  -  Open Source
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  • Latest Version

    Rufus Portable 4.5 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_4.5.paf.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    a63b2f7c063740c78605e43dc75aed5e

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


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  • Rufus Portable 4.5 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

- Add new advanced option to perform runtime UEFI media validation of suitable images (Windows, most Linux)
- Move the Use Rufus MBR advanced option to a cheat mode (Alt-A)
- Fix truncation of VHDX images, as well as a benign error message when writing VHD/VHDX
- Fix support for Linux persistence in some configurations (Mint, Ubuntu 24.04)
- Fix multiple potential vulnerabilities (with thanks to Mansour Gashasbi)
- Update internal GRUB to version 2.12
- Update UEFI:NTFS to latest (now always uses the ntfs-3g driver, rather than the buggy AMI NTFS one)
- Increase buffer size when copying ISO files, in an attempt to minimize the AMI NTFS UEFI driver bug
- Improve partition creation handling
- Don't display the WUE dialog when a conflicting unattend.xml already exists

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