Rufus 3.14

Rufus 3.14 is the name of a lightweight, high-performance small utility that is used to create and format a bootable USB flash drive, for eg. Pen drive, key USB, memory sticks, etc. It is a very small, very light, very helpful, and very user-friendly tool for all the users out there and respites its lightweight and size, Rufus is known for performing the tasks efficiently for which it is designed.

Rufus 3.14 – Review

Rufus is a product that can perform the designated functions with speed and without overloading your computer. It’s free and it’s safe. This is something people should acquire if they want to format and create a bootable USB flash drive without any cost and yet efficiently. All a user has to do is to download Rufus from a reliable source and utilize it in a very simple way as mentioned above in the article. For further details and official setup visit the official Rufus website.

Rufus 3.14 – Features

Usability

Besides creating and formatting bootable USB drives its functions can be discussed in elaboration for its usability on systems without an operating system i-e if a computer system does not have an operating system installed then the user can perform the various task on it by using Rufus. Moreover, users can create USB installation media easily for Windows, UEFI, and Linux from bootable ISOs.

Also, users can utilize Rufus if they want to flash a BIOS and other permanent software from DOS. It also helps in running a low-level utility. Lastly, Rufus is also capable of computing SHA-1, SHA-256 and the MD5 hashes of images that are currently selected.

Compatibility

It is compatible with various bootable ISOs such as ranges of Windows installation and Linux distributions. It also supports raw disk image files along with compressed ones. At times when it is required, Rufus can install bootloaders such as GRUB and SYSLINUX into flash drives to render them bootable. It supports the installation of FreeDOS and MS-DOS as well into the bootable media of flash drive and creating the Windows To Go. It is compatible with the formatting of flash drives including FAT, FAT32, exFAT, UDF, NTFS, or ReFS files systems.

Simple configuration

Its Configuration is very simple. Users will just have to insert the device that is to be formatted, select the required option, and click start. A new bootable USB will be ready in just a few seconds so users can use it for DOS.

Speed and performance

It is a user-friendly, fast, and high-performance tool. If in any case, users want to start their computers in DOS then Rufus is one of the best means to do it, and that also in very fast speed. It’s two times faster than Universal USB Installer, UNetbootin, Windows 7 USB download tool, and on the creation of Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO. It is faster on the creation of the Linux bootable USB from ISOs as well.

Languages

In order to make it easily usable for people to call over the world, the tool is designed to support 38 most popular global languages including Arabic, Chinese, Bulgarian, Danish Finnish, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, Greek, German, Hebrew, Italian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Latvian, Malay Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Persian, Portuguese Brazilian, Portugal, Serbian, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Thai, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Ukrainian and the globally understood language English.

Free and more

It is supported with a license that enables users not only to use it free but also they can further distribute Rufus freely. Users can also modify and sell the program and all this can be done under the compliance of General Public License version 3 and above (GPLv3). Moreover, the developer Pete Batard has produced Rufus from its public source is a completely transparent manner using MinGW32 environment.

Rufus 3.14 – Technical Details