Is there a difference? Is there any extra files added by Rufus? Or anything left out? And the same with Windows Creation Tool?
Rufus works better and is overall superior in all respects. Though windows creation tool is basic and gets the job done. However, there is no GPT/MBR etc option like in Rufus. About Rufus, I have seen that for GPT partitions and UEFI, pen drive should be formated to FAT32. I am not able to make Rufus work on MBR and BIOS computers. What should be the format of pen drive (Rufus does NTFS).
Universal USB installer I use very handy tool where Rufus fails for me on Bios that only work with fat32
...Media creator does not make a pendriver GPT/MBR installation like a rufus,only down the esd and make the iso....
Rufus supports UEFI with NTFS formated drives - just choose the right option (on Linux now so I can't check) but in essence it puts a hidden FAT32 partition at the beginning (for booting) that launches the ntfs3g driver for the NTFS partition (to allow files larger than 4GB) - may have to disable secureboot though.
FAT32 for UEFI is a thing of the past. Read the following Superfly's comment. Strange now you say not being able to make Rufus work on MBR and BIOS computers. I've always been able to...
I do a lot of notebook upgrades (usually MSI) & instead of trying to clone M.2 SSD's I run the MSI Burnrecovery software to make a USB recovery key (you can run it from oobe). The key is also NTFS & boots UEFI. Diskpart only shows 1 partition so I don't know how they do it. I only noticed when I saw 1 of the split wim was 8gb in size...