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Line 1: {{Short description\|USB drive software}} ~~{{COI\|date=October 2020}}~~ {{Infobox software \| name = Rufus \| logo = Rufus-logo.png <!-- Image name is enough --> \| logo alt = \| screenshot = Rufus ~~3.13.1730~~.png \| caption = Rufus 34.130.~~1730~~2035 \| screenshot alt = \| collapsible = \| developer = Pete Batard \| released = ~~<!--~~ {{Start date and age\|2011\|12\|04}} ~~-->~~ \| discontinued = \| latest release version = 34.225 \| latest release date = {{Start date and age\|~~2023~~2024\|0305\|2522\|df=~~yes~~no}} \| latest preview version = \| latest preview date = <!-- {{Start date and age\|YYYY\|MM\|DD\|df=yes}} --> \| programming language = [[C_(programming_language)\|C]]<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/tree/master/src \| title=Rufus source code \| website=[[GitHub]] \| access-date=2016-07-17}}</ref> \| operating system = [[Windows 78]] and later~~<ref>{{cite web \|title=Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way \|url=https://rufusdownload.com/ \|access-date=24 June 2018}}</ref>~~ \| platform = \| size = 1.34 MB<!-- Rufus 4.0.2035 download size --> ~~\| size =~~ \| language = Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Portuguese Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese \| language count = 38 Line 32 ⟶ 31: }} '''Rufus''' (The '''R'''eliable '''U'''SB '''F'''ormatting '''U'''tility, with '''S'''ource<ref name="introduction post">{{cite web \| url=http://pete.akeo.ie/2011/12/rufus-dos-bootable-usb-formatting.html \| title=Rufus introduction post \| date=14 December 2011 \| access-date=~~2016-07-09~~28 April 2023}}</ref>) is a [[free and open-source]] [[portable application]] for [[Microsoft Windows]] that can be used to format and create bootable [[USB flash drives]] or [[Live USB]]s. ==History== Rufus was originally designed<ref name="introduction post" /> as a modern [[Open-source software\|open source]] replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows,<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml \| title=HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool on Softpedia \| date=11 June 2014 \| access-date=2016-07-09}}</ref> which was primarily used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only<ref name="changelog">{{cite web \| url=https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/blob/master/ChangeLog.txt \| title=Rufus Changelog \| website=[[GitHub]] \| access-date=2016-07-09}}</ref>), was released on December 04, 2011, with originally only [[MS-DOS]] support. Version 1.0.4 introduced [[FreeDOS]] support and version 1.1.0 introduced [[.iso\|ISO]] image support. Until 1.2.0, two separate versions were provided, with one for MS-DOS and one for FreeDOS.<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://rufusdownload.com/downloads/ \| title=List of Rufus downloads \| access-date=2016-07-09 }}{{Dead link\|date=February 2022 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[Unified Extensible Firmware Interface\|UEFI]] boot support was introduced with version 1.3.2, [[Internationalization and localization\|localization]] with 1.4.0 and [[Windows To Go]] with 2.0. The last version compatible with [[Windows XP]] and [[Windows Vista\|Vista]] is 2.18, while the last version compatible with Windows 7 operating systems is Rufus 3.22, as Rufus 4.0 increased the minimum version requirement to require Windows 8 or later.<ref name="changelog"/> ==Features== Line 53 ⟶ 52: ==External links== * {{Official website\|https://rufus.ie//}} [[Category:Portable software]] [[Category:Linux installation software]] [[Category:Live USB]]