While most modern hard drives make use of the NTFS file system on Windows ... Despite its limitations, it is the go-to format ...

Whether you need to format a USB drive for data ... file systems that can be beneficial if you only use one ecosystem. NTFS, ...

you can use Rufus or any other application that can create a bootable USB flash drive. These tools format the drive by making 2 (or more) partitions. One of them formatted as NTFS another as FAT32.