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Questions tagged [rufus]

For questions about using the Rufus Windows application that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives of Windows and many Linux distributions.

Rufus is a Windows application that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. Rufus is recommended at the official Ubuntu website as a way to create a bootable Ubuntu USB stick on Windows.

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ISOs Rufus is known to work with (non-exhaustive list) includes Arch Linux, Archbang, BartPE/pebuilder, CentOS, Damn Small Linux, Debian, Fedora, FreeDOS, FreeNAS, Gentoo, GParted, gNewSense, Hiren's Boot CD, LiveXP, Knoppix, KolibriOS, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, NT Password Registry Editor, Parted Magic, Partition Wizard, Raspbian, ReactOS, Red Hat, rEFInd, Slackware, Super Grub2 Disk, Tails, Trinity Rescue Kit, Ubuntu, Ultimate Boot CD, Windows XP (SP2+), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016...

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What version of MS-DOS does Rufus use to make bootable USBs?

Rufus allows for the creation of a bootable MS-DOS flash drive. It does this out of the box as an option without needing to specify an image or ISO. However, documentation on the tool is virtually non-existent as it is, and I can't find anything…
Hashim Aziz
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Make Rufus show internal hard drives

I wanted to install Windows on my other hard drive with Rufus by using Windows10 ISO and without using any external USB/CD/DVD. So I plugged in the other drive to my motherboard and I can see the drive on my PC, as well as DiskManager. However,…
Disco4uf
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Rufus gets interrupted by explorer.exe almost every time

Recently I've got a problem with making bootable USB sticks. When i want to write some OS (Windows or CentOS) image on USB stick with Rufus sometimes i get this kind of error: Chosen device is being used by another process. Please, close the…
DenisNovac
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Rufus Damaged my USB. Windows can not detect USB

I was using Rufus (on Windows 8) to create a bootable Windows 7 USB installer but midway through I canceled it. Now my USB drive is not detected by Windows or Rufus. Is it possible to fix this? Edit: The USB drive shows up in Device Manager.
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How do I create a bootable flash drive running MS-DOS 6.22?

I'm trying to create a bootable USB for MS-DOS 6.22. I can't risk using FreeDOS or any other version of DOS because I'm working with a very niche utility that has the potential to break expensive things if things are wrong. I'm using the ISO for…
Hashim Aziz
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Black screen with colored dots when trying to boot from USB using rufus GPT partition on my laptop eMMC

As I mentioned in the title, I'm trying to install Windows 10 on my Dell Inspirion 14 which only has a 32Gb eMMC (no HDD). I have been reading a lot of articles saying that I should run Rufus with these specs: I did, but now I'm getting this black…
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Getting Rufus to output to a disk image file

Basically, I require different Live USBs for different needs. I have a single USB drive & when I need to switch to another distro/OS, I simply flash this USB drive with the right boot attributes, using Rufus. I thought that since I keep on setting…
kozner
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What is the difference between "Rufus" and "Rufus portable"

On this site : https://rufus.akeo.ie/, there are two downloads, one labeled "Rufus 2.8" and the other labeled "Rufus 2.8 portable" I have tried both, and they do not differ in functionality as far as I am aware. I don't know what the difference…
WinMacLinUser
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Can't create bootable USB drive: Rufus hangs after writing MBR

I bought a PC without optical drive and there is no option to borrow it for a short time. So I am using Rufus to create a bootable USB stick. I have a 16Gb Toshiba USB drive. Using a Rufus's built-in FreeDOS image I found that "MBR partition scheme…
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USB totally damaged after used with Rufus

Attempted to create a FreeDOS bootable drive with Rufus. The process failed and the drive was damaged. Software: Rufus 3.8p System: Windows 10 Enterprise 1709 x64 A lot of times when a similar problem is discussed online users respond (correctly)…
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Replace Windows' drive format tool with Rufus

I recently came across the Super User question How do I place a bootable ISO on a USB drive? in my endeavour to find the easiest way to write the contents of an ISO image to a flash drive. However, after finding the above, I started a mission to see…
user66001
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Use Rufus to create an image of a partition + restore this partition to disk on Windows

Can we use Rufus to save a local disk partition into an .img image file? Basically the Windows equivalent of: dd if=/dev/sda4 of=output.img Also can we use Rufus to write an image, not to a whole USB disk (I already know the advanced option "List…
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Create bootable usb with rufus on a pc with Bitlocker enabled

I want to create a w10 bootable usb from a pc with bitlocker enabled. Everytime I plug an usb drive pc asks me if I want to encrypt the drive etc. When I have tried to create a bootable I receive the message "media is write protected" or something…
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Linux Mint will not boot up on my computer

I have a Razer Blade 2016 edition computer. I downloaded a Linux Mint ISO file, and used Rufus to make it a live file system on a USB. I load my computer's boot options by clicking F12 while the computer is loading, and select Linux Mint 64 bit…
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creating UEFI USB Boot stick using rufus option gives errors

I am trying to install windows 7 from a USB UEFI stick that I tried to create in vain. I read other posts on creating UEFI USB Boot sticks and found Rufus the most convenient option . However , Rufus won't allow me a choice of GPT method and Fat32.…
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