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The main feature of it is to create an ISO on a USB. An ISO is used to contain a copy identical to what is normally contained on a physical disk. Thereby, Rufus can compile all the various files on a DVD or on a computer to place them into one ISO file.
It will reformat your device when it installs the ISO. Remember to save all your information somewhere else so that you don’t lose all that is on it. It provides support for creating MBR files for UEFI and BIOS for different computers.
Also, for some UEFI devices, it has GPT. For example, you can use Rufus to store an ISO for Windows 7 so that you can use it to re-install it on your computer in the future. Another option would be an older game that you only have on DVD that you would like to save for the future.
If you want to create a bootable USB through Rufus, it’s pretty easy. First, you’ll need to insert the thumb drive you want to boot from. Rufus will detect the USB once you start up the program. There’s a little button with an optical drive icon. Click that, and then locate and select the ISO you want to use.
Once you go through this process, the USB will be formatted. The ISO will then be copied onto the USB so you can use it to boot. If you want to boot from a USB, you’ll have to get into your BIOS to make that happen. Rufus can’t actually control BIOS operations across platforms. Even if it could, you can only install Rufus on Windows, so it’d do you no good if you wanted to boot up a Mac.
It is extremely straightforward to use. The user interface displays all the options you need, from which OS you’re on, to what you are making the ISO. Also, you need to compress the file and find the .exe in there and use that for the process of building the bootable USB.
