Pete Batard, the creator of the Rufus app, has released the new stable version 4.4.2103 and it is already available for download with several changes.
Notable improvements in Rufus 4.4.2103 include the ability to force Windows to install in S Mode (the long-forgotten mode that limited installing apps from the Microsoft Store only), NTFS for Linux Mint LMDE, a fix for the bug that prevents opening VHD images and more. Recall that the Rufus application began to support VHD and ZIP64 from version 4.3.
You can download Rufus 4.4.2103 from app repository on GitHub. The latest stable version 4.4 is also available on the official website.
You can use Rufus on any computer running Windows 8 or a newer Microsoft operating system, including Windows on ARM.
For those who don't know, Rufus is a great free utility for creating bootable media for installing Windows, Linux or other operating system.
Changelog
- Add workaround for distros that use broken symbolic links as their UEFI bootloaders (such as Mint 21.3)
- Add support for GRUB 2.12
- Fix a crash when saving
.ffuimages - Fix UEFI: NTFS partition not being added, in MBR mode, for some Linux ISOs
- Prevent Microsoft Dev Drives from being listed [#2395]
- Improve support for SDXC card readers
- Improve Large FAT32 formatting by aligning start of data regions to 1 MB (courtesy of Fred) [#2387]
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