**Rufus** is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
It can be especially useful for cases where:
- you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs ([[Windows]], [[Linux]], [[Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)|UEFI]], etc.)
- you need to work on a system that doesn't have an [[operating system (OS)]] installed
- you need to flash a [[Basic Input Output System (BIOS)|BIOS]] or other firmware from [[Disk Operating System (DOS)|DOS]]
- you want to run a low-level utility
[Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way](https://rufus.ie/en/)