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Rufux 2.0

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@Hultwl Hultwl released this 24 Sep 23:56
  • 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.