pbatard/rufus — Issue #52: Can it work without formating?
Author: eloyesp
Created: 2012-02-23 23:50:34+00:00
State: open

I remember the situation when I have an almost full of data USB, that I want to boot from (with hiren's or dos or linux). I discovered that I can install grub4dos without formating the drive and added hiren's after this without lossing any info (I am only copying files and modifiying the mbr don't?)
I'm not sure if it is possible to make rufus behave this way, but it could be a cool feature. It adds speed, simplicity (because people don't loose information and _choose_ to format), and ecology (USB degrades by ussing it).
Sorry I cannot help you developing this, because I'm not at the level :(