Software update: Rufus 3.13

Version 3.13 of Rufus has been released. Rufus is a Windows program that can create self-starting USB sticks. Handy, for example, to install an operating system, which is faster from a USB stick than from a CD or DVD, to update the bios or to access a system that no longer wants to start. Incidentally, there are a large number of tools with which this can be done, but Rufus claims to be one of the fastest of its kind. Since version 3.0, the program has a slightly different look and support for Windows XP and Vista has been discontinued. In version 3.12 the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in version 3.13:

• Add a cheat modeAlt- Mto accept disk images without a Boot Marker
• Add marquee operation progress to the taskbar icon
• Add zeroing / image writing progress to the log
• Switch to using 0x55and 0xAAinstead of 0x00and 0xFFfor low pass badblock check
• Switch to using fake / manufacturer units when computing the default label
• Fix overwumerous write retries on error when writing a disk image
• Work around Windows’ abysmal handling of removable drives that contain an ESP
• Improve mounting / unmounting of volumes
• Update UEFI: NTFS file system drivers to version 1.7

• Other internal fixes and improvements (VDS, error reporting, etc.)