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README.txt

Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

Features:
- Formats USB flash drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/exFAT
- Creates DOS bootable USB drives, with no external files required
- Creates bootable USB drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
- Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO->USB (1)
- Bad blocks check, with detection for fake capacity
- Modern UI, with UAC elevation for Windows Vista and later
- Small footprint, no installation required
- 100% Free Source Software (GPL v3)

Compilation:
Use either Visual Studio 2010, WDK (Windows Driver Kit) or MinGW and then
invoke the .sln, wdk_build.cmd or configure/make respectively.

Additional information:
Rufus provides extensive information about what it is doing through the Windows
debug facility. This info can be accessed with an application such as DebugView.

More info:
http://rufus.akeo.ie

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