Command line arguments

[bobpsmith]

First of all- thank you for a great utility!

Does Rufus support command line argument? So that you can specify an ISO when starting Rufus. Something like...

rufus.exe /iso=win7.iso

If not, would you consider adding that feature?

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
Bob

[pbatard]

I have had a few requests for this, so I'm likely to implement commandline support eventually.
However when I do that, I'd rather add comprehensive support (i.e. not just providing an ISO, but also a target, file system, type and so on), so it will take a while.
Adding that feature currently sits around the middle of my backlog so don't expect anything fast...

[bobpsmith]

Thanks for the information.

[bobpsmith]

Thanks for the work on command line request. I also noticed that you added UEFI support a while ago. Thanks for adding UEFI support. I didn't know I needed it- until today!

[couchcommander]

Can you create readme file with all current and future command line switches that RUFUS uses.

[pbatard]

Try rufus -h from an elevated command prompt. 😉

[couchcommander]

That works, but I do not see any partition commands.
Which what I am anxiously waiting for so I can make partition my drive as UEFI-NTFS format.

Thank you.

[pbatard]

That's because, as I said, there is very limited commandline support available, and what you seek has not been implemented.

Realistically, I don't expect to implement the feature you are after for at least a year or two, at best, if at all. Sorry.

[pbatard]

This being said, creating an UEFI-NTFS drive from the commandline should be relatively easy if you know what you are doing:

1. Create one large NTFS partition and then a smaller 256KB partition at the end. If using GPT, you should set both partitions to type BASIC_DATA or if MBR, the first one to 0x07 (NTFS) and the second one to 0xef.
2. Format the first partition as NTFS
3. Use dd to copy the uefi-ntfs.img data (256 KB) to the second partition.

That's it.

[couchcommander]

I see, that sucks. I do not have the ability to do that with disk part and do not have knowledge in grub4dos to do that. Unless you are will to lay it out for me, because it does not sound like a lot of steps.

Attach below is currently what I have to do to make this work.

Thank you.

Const HKCU = &h80000001
Set oshell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oReg = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!.\root\default:StdRegProv")
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!.\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = oWMIService.ExecQuery ("SELECT * from Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE Description = 'Removable Disk'")
oReg.SetDWORDValue HKCU, "SOFTWARE\Akeo Consulting\Rufus", "AdvancedMode", 0
DriveLabel = "IMAGE"
RDrives = ""
SP = 1
SP2 = 1
Count = 0
FCount = 0
TCount = 1

ANS = Msgbox ("You are about to create USB Imaging Drives, using USBMAKER.exe. Any USB Mass Storage drives that is attach to the system will be converted into a USB-Imaging Drive." & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "Would you like continue?", vbYesNo + vbCritical, " USBMaker")
If ANS = 7 Then
WScript.Quit(99)
End if
Model = InputBox ("Please enter the Model of the devices you are build image sticks for.")
For Each objItem in colItems
Rdrives = Rdrives & objItem.Name & ","
Count = Count + 1
DeviceFound = True
Next

If DeviceFound = False Then
Msgbox "NO USB devices found"
ElseIf DeviceFound = True Then
ANS = Msgbox ("This computer has removable USB drives connected with drive letters: " & RDrives & vbNewLine & "Is this corrected?", vbYesNo + vbCritical, "Is this Correct?")
If ANS = 7 Then
MsgBox ("Please connect all the remaining USB Drives to the system that are missing.")
RDrives = ""
Count = 0
For Each objItem in colItems
Rdrives = Rdrives & objItem.Name & ","
Count = Count + 1
Next
oshell.Popup "The new list of Removable Drives on this Machine are: " & Rdrives, 15, "Removable Drives"
End if
End If

'Cleaning all Drives and Pre them for RUFUS
If Ofso.FileExists ("C:\Brookdale\USBMaker\DiskpartScript.txt") Then
oFSO.DeleteFile "C:\Brookdale\USBMaker\DiskpartScript.txt", True
End if
oFSO.CreateTextFile "C:\Brookdale\USBMaker\DiskpartScript.txt", True
Set dpFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Brookdale\USBMaker\DiskpartScript.txt", 2, True)
For i = 0 To Len(RDrives)
WScript.Sleep 500
DriveLetter = Mid(RDrives, SP, 2)
If Not DriveLetter = "" Then
dpFile.WriteLine "select volume " & DriveLetter
dpFile.WriteLine "clean"
dpFile.WriteLine "create partition primary"
dpFile.WriteLine "select partition 1"
dpFile.WriteLine "format fs=ntfs quick label=" & """" & DriveLabel & """"
ElseIf DriveLetter = "" Then
dpFile.WriteLine "exit"
Exit For
End If
SP = SP + 3
Next

'Preping Drive for UEFI Formating
oShell.Run "Diskpart.exe /s C:\Brookdale\USBMaker\DiskpartScript.txt", 0, True

'Set up for RUFUs
UEFICount = Count
oshell.Run "taskkill.exe /IM Rufus.exe /T", 0, True

do while UEFICount > 0
'Open Rufus
oshell.run "C:\Brookdale\USBMaker\Application-Files\rufus.exe", 1, false
WScript.Sleep 500

'Sending keys to App to complete task
oshell.AppActivate "Rufus"
oshell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
oshell.SendKeys "i" 'Rotates between all Drives named like Image
oshell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
oshell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
oshell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
oshell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
oshell.SendKeys Model ' replace with inputed vaule
oshell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
oshell.SendKeys " "
oshell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
oshell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
oshell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
oshell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
oshell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
oshell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"
oshell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"
oshell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"
oshell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"
oshell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"
oshell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"
oshell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"
oshell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"
oshell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"
WScript.Sleep 6500

'Close Program and delete Dword
oshell.Run "taskkill.exe /IM Rufus.exe /T", 0, True
WScript.Sleep 2000
oReg.SetDWORDValue HKCU, "SOFTWARE\Akeo Consulting\Rufus", "AdvancedMode", 0
WScript.Sleep 1000

'Math
UEFICount = UEFICount - 1
TCount = TCount + 1
FCount = FCount + 1
Loop

'Add WINPE Files and Image File
WINPE = "C:\Brookdale\USBMaker\WINPE"
ImageFolder = "C:\Brookdale\USBMaker\ImageFile"

For i = 0 To Len(RDrives)
DriveLetter = Mid(RDrives, SP2, 2)
If Not DriveLetter = "" Then
oshell.Run "C:\Brookdale\USBMaker\Application-Files\FileCopy.hta", 1, False
WScript.Sleep 500
oShell.Run "xcopy.exe " & WinPE & " " & DriveLetter & "\ /e /h /y /f" , 0, True
WScript.Sleep 500
oShell.Run "xcopy.exe /z " & ImageFolder & " " & DriveLetter & "\ /e /h /y /f", 0, True
WScript.Sleep 500
oshell.Run "taskkill.exe /IM mshta.exe /F", 0, True
ElseIf DriveLetter = "" Then
Exit For
End If
SP2 = SP2 + 3
Next

MsgBox "USBMake.exe have complete all task and have succefully create these USB Image Drives: " & RDrives

[pbatard]

I'm afraid you'll have to seek for help elsewhere then. I provided you the global steps and that's as far as I'll go.
If you need to convert them into a VB script, then you're going to have to ask VB help forums or get help from a VB specialist (or train yourself on VB scripts so that you can do it yourself). Sorry.