Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

I've had issues with most bootable USB creation tools, including Rufus, particularly with CentOS (even though it's listed as known working!). I'm not sure whose fault this is, really. I think the problem is that the tools just try to be too "smart" instead of simply dd-ing the bytes over. The best tool I've found for this on Windows is Rawrite32.

Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

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Post by pronoiac » Fri, May 07, 2021, 4:30 AM UTC

Note: it's Windows only.

Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

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Post by AmVess » Fri, May 07, 2021, 4:30 AM UTC

imperialdrive wrote: post #3

Just used it today due to Microsoft removing their Windows USB utility. Lifesaver.

The Windows 10 downloader makes a bootable USB as an option. Certainly not useful for early versions of Windows, but works fine for W10.

Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

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Post by graton » Fri, May 07, 2021, 4:31 AM UTC

Another similar/related project is: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy

Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

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Post by runlevel1 » Fri, May 07, 2021, 4:32 AM UTC

In case others have the same question I did:

Only supports Windows, no Linux or macOS support planned.[1]

[1]: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#do-you-plan-to-por...

EDIT: running on, not creation of boot volumes for

Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

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Post by spijdar » Fri, May 07, 2021, 4:32 AM UTC

With the disclaimer than I'm primarily a Linux user and may be missing something from Microsoft, isn't it weird that there are no tools for this functionality that come with Windows? I've tried a few times through the life of Windows 10 to make installer USB drives from inside Win10 with only microsoft tools but never found anything that worked.

Rufus comes through for me again and again, but why do we need to download a 3rd party tool for even basic configs? Nothing fancy, just a windows installer on USB.

Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

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Post by AmVess » Fri, May 07, 2021, 4:33 AM UTC

invokestatic wrote: post #4

I've had issues with most bootable USB creation tools, including Rufus, particularly with CentOS (even though it's listed as known working!). I'm not sure whose fault this is, really. I think the problem is that the tools just try to be too "smart" instead of simply dd-ing the bytes over. The best tool I've found for this on Windows is Rawrite32.

Rufus has issues with some early UEFI implementations and may not work at all. I haven't had a problem with current hardware, however.