Download Rufus 2.0.639

Version 2.0 of Rufus has been released. Rufus is a Windows program that can be used to create self-starting USB sticks. Useful, for example, to install an operating system, which is faster from a USB stick than from a CD or DVD, to update the bios or to access a system that no longer wants to start. By the way, there are a large number of tools with which this can be done, but Rufus claims to be one of the fastest of its kind. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes in version 2.0

• Major UI improvements (improved font, new info field, no separate progress dialog, etc.)
• Add support for Windows To Go (when Rufus is running on Windows 8 or later)
• Add support for Grub4DOS and GRUB 2 based images (eg FreeNAS)
• Add portable application support, through a ‘rufus.ini’ file
• Add native decompression support for DD images (.Z, .gz, .lzma, .bz2 and .xz)
• Add seamless UEFI boot of NTFS partitions, for Windows ISOs with large files (>4GB)
• Add support for Windows multipart ‘install.swm’
• Add support for non Microsoft VHD drivers
• Add Norwegian translation, courtesy of JED
• Fix a crash on image selection when no device is present
• Fix broken VHD support on non-English version of Windows
• Fix write error for DD images that are not a multiple of the sector size
• Fix broken Unicode support
• Update embedded Syslinux to 6.03
• Other improvements and fixes
• Update Windows version listing for Windows 10