{"id":907,"date":"2015-04-27T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T08:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pir8geek.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2015-04-27T08:15:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T08:15:09","slug":"rufus-create-bootable-usb-drives-the-easy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"Rufus &#8211; Create Bootable USB Drives the Easy Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Rufus<\/strong><\/em> is a utility that helps format and create <strong><em>bootable<\/em><\/strong> USB flash drives, such as <em>USB keys\/pendrives, memory sticks,<\/em> etc.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pir8geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rufus.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-908\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pir8geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rufus.png\" alt=\"rufus\" width=\"383\" height=\"536\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>It can be especially useful for cases where:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>you need to work on a system that doesn&#8217;t have an OS installed<\/li>\n<li>you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS<\/li>\n<li>you want to run a low-level utility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need!<br \/>\n<strong>Rufus<\/strong> is <b>fast<\/b>. For instance it&#8217;s about twice as fast as <a href=\"http:\/\/unetbootin.sourceforge.net\/\">UNetbootin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pendrivelinux.com\/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3\">Universal USB Installer<\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows 7 USB download tool,<\/a> on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO. It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs.<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Rufus \u2013 Create Bootable USB Drives the Easy Way\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZJNX0eFjBCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Download Rufus:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe latest update of Rufus was Versuib 2.1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/rufus.akeo.ie\/downloads\/rufus-2.1.exe\">Rufus 2.1<\/a><\/b> <span dir=\"ltr\">(788 KB)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rufus.akeo.ie\/downloads\/rufus-2.1p.exe\">Rufus 2.1 Portable<\/a> <span dir=\"ltr\">(788 KB)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rufus.akeo.ie\/downloads\/\">Other versions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>System Requirements:<\/strong><br \/>\nWindows XP or later, 32 or 64 bit doesn&#8217;t matter. Once downloaded, the application is ready to use.<br \/>\nFor more info Visit the official site:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rufus.akeo.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rufus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys\/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. It can be especially useful for cases where: you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.) you need to work on a system that doesn&#8217;t have an OS installed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,47],"tags":[413,414],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-application","category-how-tos","tag-bootable-usb","tag-usb-installer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}