The steps that we must follow so that Rufus creates a bootable USB drive are not complicated, although you can imagine the opposite. We click on the EXE file that has been saved in our storage, it will ask us if we want allow to update onlinewe tell him that Yeahto immediately be inside the program. This is already a personal choice of each one. The installation is extremely simple and we just have to go to the official website of the tool, to then go down until we find the section Discharge.Īs you will see, you can download Rufus in the normal way or opt for the portable version if you want to take Rufus from one place to another. Obviously, before we can use it, the first thing we are going to do is install Rufus to get a bootable USB. It is the best way to create a external boot system for the operating system, since telling the BIOS to first read a usb drive is very simple and it can also help us to maintain it in the face of possible future problems. Something that we must be clear about is that on this boot disk we will not be able to store normal text, image, music or video files unless we reformat it again.

What is a bootable USB?Ī bootable USB drive is any usb hardware device whose file systems have been reformatted to allow us to install a OS complete. He UEFI boot support was introduced with the version 1.3.2the localization came with 1.4.0 and for windows to go had to wait until 2.0.Ĭurrently, it is compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11 and is mainly used as tools to create a USB. From Rufus 1.1.0 compatibility was introduced for ISO and FreeDOS images. Launched the version 1.0.3 like the first stable, only being compatible with MS-DOS. Rufus was born in 2011 as a modern open source replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for windowswhich was mainly used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives.

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