Passcape ISO Burner is a free software to burn ISO image files to CD/DVD/USB, create bootable disks or a bootable USB drive from ISO in Windows.

Much like Proxmox can store ISO files locally for passing through to virtual machines, Ventoy can hold and boot countless ISO images, so long as the USB drive has ample capacity.

This tool creates a bootable DVD or USB flash drive of a Windows disc, which you can boot from, and install Windows from. It's more efficient, and much, much faster, too. You will need a Windows 7 ...

To use the ISO with a UEFI / Secure Boot system we need to use Rufus, a popular free utility that writes ISO files to USB Flash drives.

But when I boot from it and reach the DOS environment, my BIOS update file isn't there. So, is there a straightforward app that can do for bootable .iso files what Rufus does for bootable USB sticks?

Start the Process: Click "Start" to begin the process of creating the bootable USB drive. Rufus will format the USB drive and write the ISO file to it. This process may take a few minutes.

Trying to get started with VMware's virtualization app but lack an optical drive on your Apple computer? Here's how to transform the ISO into a bootable flash drive for installing the hypervisor.

ISO files happen to be the installer files for the OSs that are installed on the virtual machines. It is similar to a bootable USB drive or a DVD used to install an OS on a physical machine.

3. Creating a bootable USB thumb drive with Windows 7 loaded onto it is more complicated than it needs to be, but once it’s done it’s a great tool to have.

Also looking inside the memtest86-iso.iso file, I don't see anything I recognise as characteristic of bootable media e.g. it doesn't look like a linux bootable or a windows bootable..