Download Rufus 3.9

Version 3.9 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. Incidentally, 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. Since version 3.0, the program has been given a slightly different look and support for Windows XP and Vista has been discontinued. In version 3.9, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in version 3.9:

• Add exFAT support when creating blank UEFI:NTFS drives [EXPERIMENTAL]
• Fix ext2/ext3 corruption for partitions larger than 4 GB
• Fix early boot files not being usable on compressed NTFS partitions
• Fix writing of compressed streams that don’t end on sector boundary
• Fix percent not being displayed on slow format
• Improve file preallocation and speed up ISO extraction
• Improve ext2/ext3 formatting speed
• Improve protective MBR message for GPT partitioned drives
• Improve reporting of Syslinux/GRUB download errors
• Improve reporting of partition types and of Windows’ version
• Report the usage of UDF symbolic links
• Update embedded Syslinux to 6.04-pre1