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Download Windows 11 or 10 from inside Rufux. A DOWNLOAD button next to
SELECT opens a small window: version, edition, language, architecture,
folder. It asks Microsoft's own download service for the official ISO (the
protocol of Rufus's Fido script), shows the progress, resumes a partial
file, and selects the ISO when it is done. rufux download-windows does the
same from the command line (--list, --list-langs, --url-only). This
depends on a service Microsoft does not document; it can change or rate-limit.
Windows sticks boot on legacy BIOS machines too (MBR scheme, FAT32 or
NTFS). GRUB 2 goes in the gap before the first partition and starts bootmgr.
This replaces the "UEFI only" note. GPT drives are unchanged.
Virtual disk images: VHDX, dynamic VHD, VMDK, QCOW2 and VDI are expanded
onto the drive through qemu-img, with an optional verify. An image that
refers to another file (a backing file, a VMDK extent elsewhere) is refused,
and so is one that fails its consistency check.
Drive health. The SMART status is read before writing (smartctl); a
drive that reports itself as failing is refused unless --ignore-smart is
given. rufux smart DEV shows it. Drives that report nothing are not blocked.
Secure Boot revocation check. Bootloaders copied to the drive are checked
against the UEFI DBX (hashes and certificates), SBAT and the Windows boot
manager version, and a revoked one is reported in the log. rufux check-boot
does it for a file or folder.
More file systems: FAT16 and real ext2 and ext3. Before, ext2 and ext3
were silently formatted as ext4. FAT16 refuses a volume over 4 GiB.
The AppImage carries the new helpers (smartctl, qemu-img, GRUB's tools with a
400 KB slice of its modules). Expect about 4 MB more.
Still missing: ReFS, Windows To Go, the language button.