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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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Rufus settings default settings confusing

Rufus default settings UEFI only: Partition scheme: GPT Target system: UEFI (non CSM) File system: FAT32 Legacy BIOS only: Partition scheme: MBR Target system: BIOS (or UEFI-CSM) File system: NTFS if using NTFS file system on GPT/ UEFI mode . Is…
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Does Rufus use RAServer.exe?

I have used Rufus today to create a bootable Windows 10 USB drive. However, a program that creates logs on my PC showed two other programs were also executed about 15 seconds after Rufus started: vds.exe (which makes sense, since it's something…
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Rufus failed. Now USB error message: "No Medium."

I have a new notebook and wanted to reinstall Ubuntu (in GPT, since the hard drive also has GPT) using Rufus. But Rufus failed. Now I get the USB error message: "No Medium." I have already read some solutions. But: The 'Clean' function of Diskpart…
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Rufus boot USB disk

I am using Windows 11 Home version. Wanted to create Boot disk using Rufus 4.2. It is asking for MS Dos or Freedos. I am confused. Which one to select? Their merit and demerits.
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Install Windows 11 on an Unsupported PC. Rufus secure boot settings?

Making bootable Windows 11 installer. I have old Dell 7010 optiplex (Intel Core i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz) with UEFI/ secureboot, but not TMP 2.0. What happens to secureboot in bios or windows, if i tick option.? Rufus option: [ x ] remove requirement…
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can't Run rufus-3.17.exe on Linux Mint

I'm new in linux world and, trying to run rufus-3.17 on Linux mint but I keep on receiving error messages. when using : "wine rufus-3.17.exe" 0009:err:module:__wine_process_init L"C:\windows\system32\rufus-3.17.exe" not found when using : "sudo…
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Why didn't Rufus become a multiload creation tool?

Why has Rufus not added support for adding bootable images to USB without subsequent re-formatting, such as Windows1, Windows2... or Windows1, Linux1...? Why didn't Rufus become a multiload creation tool?
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Change something after creating usb with rufus

Already created windows 11 USB using Rufus and selected 'create local account with same username'. Can I toggle it off without downloading the iso again?
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