Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility Features: - Formats USB flash drives as well as VHD images to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS - Creates DOS bootable USB drives, using FreeDOS or MS-DOS with no external files required - Creates MBR or GPT/UEFI bootable drives - Creates bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.) - Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO->USB (1) - Can perform bad blocks check, with fake drive detection - Modern and familiar UI, with more than 30 languages natively supported (2) - Small footprint, no installation required - 100% Free Software (GPL v3) Compilation: Use either Visual Studio 2013, WDK 7.1 (Windows Driver Kit) or MinGW and then invoke the .sln, wdk_build.cmd or configure/make respectively. Note that, since Rufus is a OSI compliant Open Source project, you are entitled to download and use the *freely available* Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition to build, run or develop for Rufus. As per the Visual Studio Community Edition license this applies regardless of whether you are an individual or a corporate user. For details, see http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs or http://pete.akeo.ie/2014/11/visual-studio-2013-has-now-become.html Additional information: Rufus provides extensive information about what it is doing, either through its easily accessible log, or through the Windows debug facility. More info: http://rufus.akeo.ie http://rufus.akeo.ie/FAQ Enhancements/Bugs https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues (1) Tests carried out with a 16 GB USB 3.0 ADATA pen drive on a Core 2 duo/4 GB RAM platform running Windows 7 x64. ISO: en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_618240.iso - Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool v1.0.30: 8 mins 10s - UNetbootin v1.1.1.1: 6 mins 20s - Rufus v1.1.0: 3 mins 25s (2) http://rufus.akeo.ie/translations