Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility 3.13

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

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

Features:

• Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS
• Create DOS bootable USB drives, using FreeDOS or MS-DOS (Windows 8.1 or earlier)
• Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS
• Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
• Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones
• Create Windows To Go drives
• Download official Microsoft Windows 8 or Windows 10 retail ISOs
• Compute MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 checksums of the selected image
• Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO -> USB creation (1)
• Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives
• Modern and familiar UI, with 39 languages natively supported
• Small footprint. No installation required.
• Portable
• 100% Free Software (GPL v3)

by Pete Batard.