[Feature Request] Estimate time when flashing image. about rufus HOT 1 CLOSED

You can already get this when writing in DD mode if you press Alt.

On the other hand, this will never be implemented for ISO extraction, because there are operations (formatting, patching) that rely on Windows APIs where we simply cannot get any time estimation, and I will not go with a half-assed guess just to hear people then complain that the time estimate is wrong.

Please bear in mind that it's not because an application can provide a progress of its operations that it can produce a time estimate. You can get progress reports for "black box" Windows APIs, but, since these are black box, there is no possibility to get an estimate of how much time is left to completion, and the cost/benefit of trying to "guesstimate" a value is simply not worth it n an application that was never designed to be a benchmarking tool.

from rufus.