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	<h1 id="rufus" class="step">Download <i>Rufus</i></h1>
	<div class="step-image usb">[[!img inc/infography/install-rufus.png link="no" alt=""]]</div> <div class="step-image upgrade">[[!img inc/infography/install-rufus-with-intermediary.png link="no" alt=""]]</div>
	<p class="upgrade">In the following steps, you will install an intermediary Tails using the Tails USB image that you downloaded earlier.</p>
	<p><a href="https://rufus.ie/"><i>Rufus</i></a> is the Free Software tool that we recommend to install Tails from Windows.</p>
	Click on the following button to download Rufus:
	<p class="button">[[Download <i>Rufus</i> for Windows\|https://tails.net/rufus/rufus-portable.exe]]</p>
	Save your download to your usual Downloads folder and not to the USB stick.
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	<p>We [[stopped recommending\|news/rufus]] <i>balenaEtcher</i> to install Tails from Windows in 2025 because <i>balenaEtcher</i> shares [[!tails_ticket 16381 desc="sensitive information"]] to the Balena company that allows identifying who is installing Tails.</p>
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	<h1 id="install" class="step">Install <span class="upgrade">an intermediary</span> Tails using <i>Rufus</i></h1>
	<div class="step-image usb">[[!img install/inc/infography/install-tails.png link="no" alt=""]]</div> <div class="step-image upgrade">[[!img install/inc/infography/install-upgrade-usb-only.png link="no" alt=""]]</div>
	Open the Rufus download.
	At the security warning, confirm that you want to open Rufus.
	In the update policy dialog, click No.
	[[!img install/inc/screenshots/rufus-update.png class="screenshot" alt=""]]
	Rufus starts.
	[[!img install/inc/screenshots/rufus.png class="screenshot" alt=""]]
	Plug in the USB stick on which you want to install <span class="usb">Tails.</span> <span class="upgrade">the intermediary Tails.</span>
	<div class="caution">
	<p>All the data on this USB stick will be lost.</p>
	<p>Some data might still be recovered using advanced forensics tools.</p>
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