> That you can, worst case, boot it (or any other tools) from simple fat32 formatted pendrive that can be created with a file manager instead of rawdogging the hard disk is just a bonus.
There was a wonderful, brief period of time where most systems were UEFI out of the box, and the largest file on a Windows ISO was under 4 GiB.
You could literally drag+drop the contents of the ISO to a FAT32 thumb drive and install Windows with it. You didn't have to erase it first. You didn't need a special app or the command line to pull it off. It just worked.
The WIM files are too big now. At least Rufus is a pretty good utility.
There was a wonderful, brief period of time where most systems were UEFI out of the box, and the largest file on a Windows ISO was under 4 GiB.
You could literally drag+drop the contents of the ISO to a FAT32 thumb drive and install Windows with it. You didn't have to erase it first. You didn't need a special app or the command line to pull it off. It just worked.
The WIM files are too big now. At least Rufus is a pretty good utility.