Download Rufus 3.6

Version 3.6 of Rufus has been released. Rufus is a Windows program that can be used to create self-starting USB sticks. Handy, 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. With version 3.0, the program has been given a slightly different look and support for Windows XP and Vista has been dropped. In version 3.6, the following improvements have also been made:

Version 3.6

• Add support for persistent partitions [EXPERIMENTAL]
• (Note: The above won’t work with Ubuntu until Ubuntu bug #1489855 is properly fixed)
• Add a mode to use VDS when partitioning/formatting (Alt-V) [EXPERIMENTAL]
• Add full extraction support for efi.img (Solus)
• Fix listing of potentially blocking processes
• Fix NTFS not being selectable when using Grub4DOS
• Fix download script not being launched when the user name contains a space
• Fix translated messages potentially being truncated (eg Thai)
• Fix progress bar report for screen readers (Accessibility issue)
• Fix a regression where Windows format prompts would not be suppressed
• Improve(?) Windows To Go support by following Microsoft’s recommended partition order
• Don’t enumerate Windows Sandbox VHDs
• Disable ISO mode when Manjaro ISOHybrids are being used
• Update embedded GRUB to version 2.04