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Not sure why the downvotes for you. I just did this last week and expected to have to jump through a bunch of hoops and download some software that would burn a bootable image to a usb. Nope just format it as NTFS and copy paste the files from the iso.

Although now this is even easier if you commonly are installing a new OS. But for the typical enthusiast that installs a new OS every couple years this solution is overkill.

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only works if you are already using windows and therefore can use diskpart/"mark as active", or you are booting from an extended uefi firmware with the appropriate drivers (e.g. dell).

Or use something like rEFInd as intermediary firmware.

By the way, Rufus uses UEFI:NTFS [1]

> UEFI:NTFS is a generic bootloader, that is designed to allow boot from NTFS or exFAT partitions, in pure UEFI mode, even if your system does not natively support it. This is primarily intended for use with Rufus, but can also be used independently.

[1]: https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs

I formatted the stick on ubuntu as NTFS and installed it on a new sdd. No windows used during the process. Don’t know if the MSI MoBo had appropriate drivers.

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