Format Pen-Drive, Check For Bad-Sector & Create Bootable Windows/Linux USB With FreeDOS Support Via Rufus

If you need to format USB pen-drive or other sorts of removable drives, Windows’ default tool should be well enough for you unless the pen-drive has been write-protected or gone non-format able using the default utility. But if you want to use the same USB stick as a bootable disk for DOS, you need to go a little further and that is where Rufus (Reliable USB Formatting Utility Software) can help you. This application enables the option of creating a flash drive to boot DOS or for whatever you want to use (e.g. Bootable Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux-based OS’s like Ubuntu/Fedora or Mac or others with ISO file). Rufus is a small portable and yet smart powerful utility that will allow you to format your Pen-Drive, check for bad sectors and make Bootable USB drive. At first glance Rufus may seem a cloned copy of Windows’ formatting utility as the interface looks almost like the same. And really, for those who just want to format the pen-drive usually there is not much difference even in addition to checking locks. More to read.

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