Rufus 4.15

Rufus is a lightweight utility designed to format and create bootable USB flash drives, including memory sticks and virtual drives. It is an essential tool for IT professionals, system administrators, and advanced users who need to prepare media for operating system installations or recovery tasks. The software supports a wide range of file systems and boot configurations, making it versatile for various hardware environments. Its portable nature means no installation is required, allowing for quick and secure usage on any compatible system.

Key features:

• Format USB, flash card, and virtual drives to FAT, FAT32, NTFS, UDF, exFAT, ReFS, ext2, and ext3
• Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS
• Create bootable drives from ISO files and disk images, including compressed ones
• Create Windows 11 installation drives for PCs without TPM or Secure Boot
• Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512 checksums of selected images
• Perform bad blocks checks and detect fake flash drives
• Download official Microsoft Windows 8, 10, or 11 retail ISOs and UEFI Shell ISOs
• Supports 38 languages with a modern and familiar user interface

What's new in version 4.15:

• Add RISC-V 64 support to UEFI:NTFS
• Improve guards for using the "silent" Windows installation option
• Fix unrestricted XML entity expansion and integer overflow in ezxml parser
• Fix "silent" Windows installation failing at 75% in most cases
• Fix a crash during boot when using UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based ARM64 platforms