pbatard/rufus
The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
This utility helps you easily create bootable USB drives from various sources like ISOs or disk images. It takes your preferred operating system or utility image and puts it onto a USB flash drive, making it ready to boot a computer. Anyone who needs to install an operating system, run diagnostics, or create a portable Windows environment would find this useful.
35,086 stars. Actively maintained with 41 commits in the last 30 days.
Use this if you need to reliably create a bootable USB drive to install an operating system, run recovery tools, or prepare a Windows To Go drive.
Not ideal if you only need to store files on a USB drive and don't require it to be bootable.
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