I've noticed that the latest version of Rufus comes with a potentially useful extra option: Create a disk image of the selected device. However, in the resulting dialogue I get this:
Rufus seems to be calling a .vhd file a DD Image, despite my own research indicating that there are differences and that it wouldn't be possible to use dd to write a .vhd image to a disk without some prior conversion.
Is there a particular reason Rufus does this?
Can the .vhd file it outputs be used by dd to write the resulting image to a device without any prior conversion?