Download Rufus 4.3

Version 4.3 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. There are a large number of tools that can be used to do this, 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 4.3:

• Add support for Rock Ridge symbolic links preservation when NTFS is used
• Add an exception to enforce NTFS for Linux Mint's LMDE
• Add an expert feature to restrict a Windows installation to S Mode
• Fix persistence support for Debian 12 when booted in BIOS mode
• Fix a regression that prevented the opening of .vhd images
• Update UEFI:NTFS to report a more explicit error on bootmgr security issues
• Improve the search for conflicting processes by running it in a background thread
• Improve support for Slax Linux