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Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

#12

Post by BiteCode_dev »

spijdar wrote: post #9

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 downlo…

It's not weird at all given the target audience of windows. 99.9999% of windows user don't need this, so why include it ?

Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

#13

Post by BiteCode_dev »

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.

Same, although unetbootin in has been the most reliable for me.

Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

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Post by spacemanmatt »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #12
spijdar wrote: post #9

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 downlo…

It's not weird at all given the target audience of windows. 99.9999% of windows user don't need this, so why include it ?

Because the small percent of users that do need it serve many other Windows users. Seems sorta obvious that SOMEone needs the functionality.

Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

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Post by AussieWog93 »

spijdar wrote: post #9

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 downlo…

Microsoft provide a fantastic program for creating Windows boot disks that "just works" (Media Creation Tool), and have done so for years.

It doesn't support Linux images, though, for reasons that should be obvious.

Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

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Post by gruez »

runlevel1 wrote: post #8

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

You shouldn't need it on linux because you can just use dd

Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

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Post by samplatt »

AmVess wrote: post #10
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.

The early UEFI days were just a headache for everyone involved, really.
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