Rufus - Creating bootable USB drives the easy way! It is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. Despite its small size, Rufus provides you with everything you need!

It can be be especially useful for cases where:
- you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
- you need to work on a system that doesn?t have an OS installed
- you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
- you want to run a low-level utility

Oh, and Rufus is fast. For instance it's about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO (with honorable mention to WiNToBootic for managing to keep up). It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs.

Finally, please remember that once formatted, your drive is still usable as before to transfer data: it doesn't have to be dedicated for DOS or ISO installation only.

Notes on DOS support:
If you create a DOS bootable drive and use a non-US keyboard, Rufus will attempt to select a keyboard layout according to the locale of your system. In that case, FreeDOS, which is the default selection, is recommended over MS-DOS, as it supports more keyboard layouts.

Notes on UEFI & GPT support:
Since version 1.3.2, Rufus support UEFI as well as GPT for installation media, meaning that it will allow you to install Windows 7, Windows 8 or Linux in full UEFI/GPT mode.
However, Windows Vista or later is required for full UEFI/GPT support. Because of OS limitations, Windows XP restricts the creation of UEFI bootable drives to MBR mode.

Non exhaustive list of ISOs Rufus is known to work with:
Arch Linux, Archbang, BartPE/pebuilder, CentOS, Damn Small Linux, Fedora, FreeDOS, Gentoo, gNewSense, Hiren's Boot CD, LiveXP, Knoppix, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, NT Password Registry Editor, OpenSUSE, Parted Magic, Slackware, Tails, Trinity Rescue Kit, Ubuntu, Ultimate Boot CD, Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, etc.

Changelog:
- Version 1.4.1 (2013.12.05) [BUGFIX RELEASE]
* Fix broken Syslinux support (reported by ank91)
* Add Slovenian support, courtesy of Matej Horvat
- Version 1.4.0 (2013.12.02)
* Add localization support, with native integration for the following languages (NEW): Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish,
* Add "smart" detection of USB HDD vs USB Flash Drive (NEW)
* Add retry on errors when writing ISO files (NEW)
* Add detection and display of VID:PID for the target device, in the log (NEW)
* Updated Syslinux to v4.0.7
* Fixed some issues with DOS localization
* Fixed FAT32 formatting for GPT and large drives
* Fixed support for Ubuntu, Scientific Linux, unofficial Windows and other ISOs
* Various other fixes and improvements