One Thumb Drive For Multiple ISOs
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- I am going to show you how to make a single USB drive boot several ISOs. We are doing this with a program called Ventoy. I have tons of USB drives and this has became a real problem for me because I can't remember what's on them all. So I'm just going to make one drive hold them all. Sounds like a good plan.
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@@CyberCPU also I have a ring of Kingston USB sticks for those needs... At my keys, with labels...
I kinda thought the same. But it doesn't discount the benefits of ventoy
@@Redeem195 shur, it can be useful but the try to sell it as solution for keeping order is just not selling it to me
The issue I run into is by the time I add all the details I need to the label, I have to use my phone in macro mode to try and read the label. And then I have to relabel every few months as I rev versions of whatever the latest Linux image I'm testing. I'm really thinking for the home lab I need to just set up network booting, but it doesn't help when I'm on vacation fixing the relatives' PC. I grabbed a cheap 128GB drive from the local Micro Center, and this will be perfect.
Other solutions (attention, old school):
- Labeled stickers
- Water proof marker
I have used easy2boot for over 10 years it is also a multiboot menu system that allows you to boot any ISOs from one USB stick. easy2boot allows you to boot from both uefi and legacy boots where Ventoy won't. easy2boot also includes both the Ventoy and agFM/grubfm multiboot menu systems. I use it on a 512G USB I keep on my key ring and never leave home without it.
Ventoy boots UEFI and MBR. The only issue I found is the ISO itself has to match the boot process that you used. So if you boot UEFI the ISO has to be UEFI also.
@@CyberCPU With the easy2boot, it really doesn't matter, it will boot from any ISO, I'm still using both versions of Hiren's the Windows XP and 10 versions and it will boot them without problem. I am not putting down Ventoy, I have used it and will continue to, I just prefer easy2boot. If you haven't tried it you should check it out.
@@CyberCPUHow do you make sure the iso you want on the ventoy drive was MBR or UEFI? Especially if you downloaded them from the internet? Do you need to use something like 7zip to tell? I had several ISO’s on my ventoy and none of them would work, giving me the error “maybe it doesn’t have UEFI drivers?”
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@@fairlane32 I can't tell you off the top of my head. You would have to use trial and error. Most Windows ISOs support both MBR and UEFI. Other ISOs I'm not sure about. Maybe open the ISO and see if it has a boot folder. Those will be UEFI. However, they might boot MBR too like the Windows ISOs.
@@CyberCPU Thanks. Huh. Interesting. If the windows ISO’s support both then I don’t understand why I couldn’t get Ventoy to boot my ISO’s. If they support both MBR and UEFI. (GPT) which Ventoy setting should I set it to, I wonder? I believe I tried both and neither way would boot. I blame Intel and the UEFI standardizations making this whole process nothing but a guessing game. It should not be this hard.
Just as a suggestion for labeling (not implying you couldn't think of it or don't do it): You could just get some of that matte white tape or that paper-ish masking tape, put a strip of it on a drive, and just write on it. - I did that for at least one or two drives to not get them confused, even though I don't have that many.
Super idea, and costs almost nothing.
So you've discovered Ventoy have you? It's a wonderful multi-boot tool that I've also been using for quite a while too.
I've seen it for years but never tried it. I was looking for a video idea and figured I would give it a shot. I should have tried it years ago.
@@CyberCPU you should now do a video on e2b and then another on the differences of ventoy and e2b. Making sure to focus on the installing of isos in mbr and uefi modes for both softwares.
i was like you , had like 15 usb flash drives until i discovered ventoy. I got a 64gb one full of isos, i might need to buy a 128gb
This is really fascinating. I don't recall having issues with upgrading Windows 7 to Windows 10. I've had more issues with Windows 8 computers, lately I've been upgrading them to 1709 first! Isn't that nuts. Seems to work. It looks like ventoy has secure boot support? That's pretty cool. I don't like messing with bios settings on people's computers, it's easy to forget to change them back, all of my usb's support secure boot, linux and windows are pretty compatible with it at this point. "turn secure boot off" really isn't a thing anymore for the most part, which is nice.
Speak of the devil I got one last week . Did 1809 first the 22h2
OK, maybe I’m old-school but I just put a piece of tape on it and write what’s inside
The tape can go sticky and weird mean you have to replace the drive as it’s quite hard to clean
Ventoy is good but it's not perfect. I did actually try to update the version and it did wipe my USB stick, I believe in some cases that you have to do it via the Live ISO of Ventoy. Also, some ISO files simply won't boot off Ventoy or they cause a BSOD or a boot loop. The problem is, there's just no way of knowing which ones will work until they do or don't. Another thing to consider is you have to use DiskPart (Windows) to 'factory reset' the USB stick if you decide to stop using Ventoy on it, as sometimes the EFI partition cannot be seen by Windows to format it through the GUI... or Windows will bodge it and render the USB stick useless until again, formatted with DiskPart. There's a whole bunch more caveats and oddities that keep me from totally relying on a Ventoy USB stick. For ISOs to work 100% of the time across a broad spectrum of systems, you still cannot beat Rufus and a dedicated USB stick. If anything, I like Ventoy just because it encourages you to have a backup of a bunch of operating system ISO files in one place, that may or may not boot, but keeps them in their original and unaltered state where many similar programs require certain elements of the ISO files to be extracted or manipulated.
I have a DYMO lable maker that I use to put a number on usb drive. I then used a excel sheet to organizer the drive's
At 2:39, did you really mean Prostarity sake or was it supposed to be for Posterity sake?! I thought this was a video about thumb drives and not prostrates! 😛Thanks for a great video!
This video was a great help. Thanks.
Every time I see people explain how to boot to the USB-drive, they go the BIOS-route. But why not just use the actual boot-menu that you can call while booting the system?... For me, I hit Del for the BIOS, but F11 for the Boot Menu to choose what drive I want to boot from immediately, which makes me not have to boot into the BIOS first. - The BIOS is more for setting what you want it to do automatically.
Hi, here is a question to you being a pro you are. Why would anonymous chinese programmers develop and install app into hidden partition of Windows OS without any ability to easy uninstall it, just in case some issues would arise after installation later? This program in a hidden partition a good luck to get rid of it if you want it. Will you clean their computers, just in case they have problems with a gizmo?
Boutta put so many distros on my USB for my linux based home network
Awesome, thanks!
Great video but missing only one thing about bios and thats about "secure boot"?
One thumb drive to rule them all.
I use YUMI for years. Very similar app.
Ventoy really solved my issue of having one USB stick and flashing it with a new ISO file every time I needed to.
I have a 64GB USB 3.0 bootable stick where I'm storing ISOs of Windows 10 22H2, Hiren's Boot CD, and a couple of Linux Distros (mainly Ubuntu, and Linux Mint)
Same here
Ah yes. The “experts” finally discovering how the real doers do it.
Just like I told the other ones:
First, Ventoy can boot most ISOs, but not 100% of them!
Then, how is it possible that these so called experts did not even know of the 2.5in HD enclosures that have ISO/DVD emulation that have existed for the last 12+ years??
Guess that’s why they take so long to do, install, fix or boot anything!
Ha! Hirens boot cd!?
I stopped using that 7 years ago?
Really need to get with the times and the several WindowsPE much, much newer and capable.
You can make directories in Ventoy but need to configure the JSON config file (RTFM).
Just surprised and disappointed for the followers, that the YT experts are not the better rounded IT people they pretend to be.
The BIG difference is that all those other USB drives actually work. In comparison, Ventoy does NOT boot up properly. It gives me some sort of message about "Security." But in the BIOs, it appears there is nothing that can be done regarding "Security" to make the Ventoy USB device work. I'm VERY disappointed with Ventoy.
So any windows installation will fail and not be successful?!. Is that what you mean.😮
@@michaelolayinka441 Using Hiren's Boot USB, I can clearly see that USB as a selectable drive to potentially "Boot" from. But it isn't like that with Ventoy. I don't see Ventoy as a potential USB drive that can can be selected to "Boot" from.
Based on your 3 minute intro I can only assume Venttoy doesn't work very well otherwise you would only have one USB stick
i have win 10 on my PC. Created Ventoy bootbale and put Win 10 ISO. When i restarted , I selected Boot option UEFI: Store and Go PMAP, Partition 2. Got error : Verification failed (0K1A) Security Violation
I use ventoy for bootable media, but I have transitioned to MicroSD cards for other things. I then store the cards in a small fly organizer (like fly fishing) with each compartment labeled. I then use a spreadsheet to keep track of what I have on each card. Ventoy helped reduce how many I need for random bootable options, but the cards are nice for keeping track of the driver updater and other storage options.
Do you have a 3D printer? Tons of super cool Micro storage to print! HMU if you need a hand.
You could use a label maker. While spreadsheets are great, it's a bit OTT.
i color them with markers then have a sheet of paper and a pdf file. we get creative
Can mbr and gpt installation media used in a single flash drive
I've been using easy2boot for a while, it has a better organization by default, like you mentioned and it works fine for both "old" bios and "new" uefi, windows and linux and other tools. And I think it even uses Ventoy as a backup tool just in case, nifty little tool
so whats better? ventoy or easy2boot?
I've been using e2b for years now. Love it. It works to install say win 7 in uefi or mbr, same with linux and I even have some mac isos that work with it. You do have to do a few things to get the iso and the flash drive from mbr install ready to uefi install ready though. At least in the version I have. Maybe there is a newer version of e2b that doesnt make you change the iso or the flash drive to bounce back and forth between uefi and mbr.
@@polygaryd I think it just works now
@@tomwol remember you used to have to put the iso through imageptn to convert ut to a uefi bootable image and then boot mbr on the e2b flash drive, then select the imageptn converted iso and it will convert the image on the flash drive to boot uefi then reboot into uefi and it will autostart the install and you cant see anything else on the flash drive. Then you can convert it back to mbr and all the other isos are there. My e2b is still like that. It sounds like a lot but it goes quick.
@@polygaryd I have just tested it on my old core2duo laptop and the same ISO (xubuntu) I draganddropped on the pendrive and which works on my other newer machines started just fine.
NOT my problem - I have a note with every one of my USB Drives... Saves me a lot of time 🙂
The lost art of RTFM would have uncovered the ability to boot with file tree mode enabled by default.
Use the plugson utility to set the option
VTOY_DEFAULT_MENU_MODE to 1 in the global control plugin (or create the resulting json file by hand).
You can even apply legacy or uefi specific settings that would kick in depending on which system you boot ventoy with.
You can Also create your own menus, submenus and assign aliases to your files, but that's much more convoluted imho.
Do a video on this and give me an address to the video so I could watch what you are talking about. I would be VERY INTERESTED!
@@jonnysokkoatduckdotcom video? Learn the lost art of RTFM.
@@bufordmaddogtannen how nice
@@jonnysokkoatduckdotcom the developer invested his time to write the documentation. You may as well spend yours to read it.
@@bufordmaddogtannen Read The Fucking Manual?? 🤣🤣I'm so used to used to using "man" on linux, manuals have all the answers, especially on Github.
the rabbit hole goes even further down…
easy2boot incorporates ventoy and agfm/grubfm multiboot menu systems.
easy2boot can be incorporated into ventoy and vice versa. it can also boot hypervisors and can boot to almost anything: legacy,uefi64/uefi32/secure boot.
depending how in depth you go, you can configure it any which way to have the most versatile usb possible.
and the saying goes, three is two, two is one, one is none.
Awesome video, I just install ventoy on a larger USB that I have like 256gb and put all the iso that I want in there, and I just label some of my other usb :]
I loved how rufus had this ability, but only at the time of setting up the USB disk. This is a game changer! Being able to expand or whatever the case need be.
Totally awesome vid, thanks!
Yeah. Especially with things like Arch Linux that release a new iso regularly, being able to download the new one and replace it with simple delete/copy/paste rather than flashing the entire drive again is much better.
Rufus does have adventage with windows 11 installation since it can skip all microsoft BS
Great video one more time..
I'm using Ventoy since day one..
Very useful I just deleting older iso versions and upgrade them with latest..
Usually Linux distros..👍
I have a Tupperware box full to the brim with days gone by pen drives from the days of 128MB right up to 256GB and I keep track of them all by wrapping them using masking tape giving them a number and a label. Works for me.
Yeah, I should probably buy a label maker one of these days.
@@CyberCPU yeah, because god forbid you use a piece of paper and a pencil instead :)
@@CyberCPU stay clear of a dymo. They have paper DRM. Where you must buy their paper.
All of my USB drives are marked. I go to wally and in the office supply section I buy boxes of 50, key markers. They are round aluminum ring paper disks with a small key ring on them. I attach them to my USB drives and mark on them whats on the drive.
Thanks for this! 8 flash drives just became one. I tried something like this a few years ago but found it unreliable in booting all the ISOs I needed. Ventoy doesn't have that problem. The only issue so far is the Macrium Reflect recovery ISO throws some NETSH errors when starting up, but still continues to function perfectly.
Holyshit...this works...what a great christmas gift..also when and if they come out with the next version of windows..it will go on this usb
Glad it helped.
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Happy New Year to you too. 😉
I thinked about this for YEARS (i swear), but im too lazy and i hadnt time to do this with my Windows installation usbs, BUT...after your video (hehe, not the first time im doing something after YOUR videos) i made that drive (with Win7, Win8.1, Win10, Win11 installations) and im HAPPY because now i need only 1 drive to take with myself, not 4x! Thanks, mate, you made my day - you showed very easy way to do that ❤️
Great minds think alike
I LOVE Ventoy! This is the second obscure but awesome program I have seen you review. Well done, man.
Just wondering what was the other “obscure” program he did a video on?
This is freaking awesome!
Finally I can make just one USB with all the bootable ISOs I need plus the portable programs and installers.
And if I want to add a new ISO or upgrade it, there is no need to get other drive or format an existing one.
Good video Friend! Thank you for sharing it with us!💖👍😎JP
I use YUMI. YUMI can incorporate Ventoy as a sub loaded app, plus YUMI can run Kapersky AV ISO while Ventoy can't.
Interesting.
I have used YUMI for a few years now and it has been rock solid. Check it out.
Ventoy is awesome, I use it on a 128GB Flash Drive with Windows versions, Linux Distros, & Utilities.
caveats; support is based entirely on cpu's. ergo; it'll work with some, but not all. other than that, it's usb boot and UEFI support for those systems with that capability (it's not req'd [yes, i checked], but it does support it, and seems to prefer it).
it literally doesn't boot on anything but my ryzen5, and my 6th gen intel. the entire range of other machines i have dating back to 586's (which it says it supports if it'll boot from the usb, and my ss7 boards with usb all do), just won't post. blinking cursor in the corner. can't get it to play nice, and i've got some pretty standard cpus (intels' from pentium 1/75's up to that 6th gen, and amd chips from a duron 700 up to my ryzen5 and various stuff between for both flavors. even tried my cyrix 350 for giggles. nope.) for my various hardware config. one of which is a q6600, and tooons of 775 motherboards, including a fully spec compliant intel made board. none of them seemed to work with it.
hit up the forum/board/whatever... alas, its a known thing it won't run on all cpus. suck.
the 6th gen and the ryzen? both boot to the select menu in a few seconds.
so fair warning, if you deal with random configs or older hardware.. it's still buggy, no promises _at all_. (hopefully this changes)
newer stuff only? you're mostly fine, but expect some occasional issues, even if rarely.
sucks for me, i wanted to use it to dump all my various bootable oldware isos to a flash drive and be able to just run with it. alas, seems i'm jammed.
When i followed the instructions, my drive just labeled Ventoy with no EFI partition? Did i do something wrong?
I found ventoy is too slow on USB thumb drives. I got a 2.5" external drive enclosure and put an SSD in it. I run ventoy from that. Much faster.
That's an intriguing idea. I hadn't thought of that. I used a 32Gb thumb drive and could only fit a half dozen ISOs on it. Using an external drive could increase the number of ISOs as well.
That’s exactly how the real pros do it.
Most USB drives are garbage!
(extremely slow write and little life),
and the ones that work well and last, are much more expensive than an SSD!
@@pepeshopping In contrast, SD cards are well documented as to their specifications, since they are used with cameras that *require* certain write performance.
Get a good USB-SD reader, and keep your ISO images on several SD cards in a small case.
I wish I could find a similar solution for having multiple MacOS version ISO's on one bootable USB stick
YOU SIR ARE AMAZING THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO i was getting a headache trying to remeber what this program was. I LOVE THIS so i can have linux/windows so i can have a dual boot system on my steam deck :)
I just use key tags and write or print out labels for the tags. If there is a key needed i ethier put it on the back of the label card or on a second card i slide in behind the first. Each of my systems have 2 usb drives taped to the inside of the case at the bottom, 1 of which has a clone copy of the OS when i first setup the system, with copies of the system drivers, bios, browser etc install files. The second usb drive is a copy of the original install usb, used to setup the system. With windows there is never enough overkill and redundacy, it is not a matter of if but when your OS borks. With the multi boot usb drive making multipule copies is a given considering the failure or simple misplacing of usb drives. Thanks for the video, take care, God bless one and all.
Does Ventoy allow you to 'stretch' an installed image?
For instance: I boot from a linux flavor, and within that boot I install a couple of utilities to make things easier.
Will they stay, or will I have to install the image, dress it up the way I need, and then turn it into an ISO to install under Ventoy?
Thanks!
Have you made a video on your thumb drive with the automatic driver installer? If not can you make such a video?
The video is in the end card of this video.
I'll add it to the description right now because many people have asked about it.
@@CyberCPU Thank you
Can't believe I haven't known about this, because I have been thinking of burning both Windows 10, 11 and even Linux ISOs into my thumb drive along with my backup files, without letting Rufus format the entire drive, deleting my backups (I know I can move those to my laptop's drive, but it takes time D:)
This is crazy... why you need to buy a label maker instead of just buy 2 keychain type tags for the 2 memory sticks... Or use a small piece of paper and some transparent tape.
still, this software is great for ISOs
Can you do the same thing with Rufus? I have rufus exe on my PC and would be great if I could use it
No. With Rufus you can only have one ISO per USB stick, as it extracts it. This is one of its strengths though.
Partition Magic? I haven't heard of that in along time, since Symantec killed it 15 years ago.
Has anyone else noticed that every 2nd Update of Ventoy it destroys the thumb drive? then the only thing that can format it is Ventoy again, no other software can... so then i have to copy over all my iso's again... that's so annoying..
I still remember finding Ventoy years ago. That was such a good day. Went from a dozen flash drives to a single 128, now at a tb because I have way too many ISO’s.
Thats cool man. Where can i find some nice ISO’s? Trying to figure out if its possible to run WinXP
Ventoy is truly a game changer. I would love to know how many years/BIOS iterations ago the method used here could have been used then. Maybe this is UEFI only?
It works on UEFI and MBR. Just boot the system based on whatever bootloader you're wanting to use. So if you want to boot an MBR CD you have to boot the USB by MBR and vice versa.
@@CyberCPU Thanks bud, and thanks for the headsup video...downloading Ventoy now. Like yourself, I have a fair collection of boot USB's etc.
Last time I tried Ventoy, it had a problem booting from ISO files with a space in the name....
That's not an issue now. Every ISO I have on mine has a space in the name.
@@CyberCPU - Thank you - I just tried that, and it's working a treat....
It might have been an idea to go over the Ventoy ISO library?
Ventoy is definitely useful for maintaining a bootable collection of up-to-date operating systems and tools. Useful for possibly keeping the latest Windows 10 and/or 11 installers, various Linux distros live/installation CDs and system and administration tools. Updating an operating system is as simple as deleting the old version's ISO and putting the new version there instead. Last I used it it did not work with bootable USB drive images and some less-used (ie. BSD, OpenIndiana, Haiku, etc.) images, but with ISO capabilities plus Windows and strong Linux support this is one very powerful tool.
In the beginning, you were confused about what was on your thumb drives. Me too. All my Windows thumb drives look the same. Is there a tool out there can identify what is on a thumb drive? Windows 7? Windows 8? Windows 10? Windows 11? Thanks.
i already know this and all isos are own one usb plus it can bypass windows 11 system requirements
Ventoy is a great concept. But for some reason, my isos seem to work better with rufus.
Whenever I go to a store, I'm always tempted to "buy just one more" thumb-drive, so, like you said, I now have tons of them :) Thanks for the informative video!
Can you give me some
@@guy- You'll need an address for that
Ventoy is great, but not everything will boot off it.
This guy not so smart someone should tell him about decal paper and magic marker
Latest windows 10 is 22H2... hope that helps.
what software was it that you use for windows driver isntallation?
iobit driver?
I thought driver utilities in general were not reccomended, unless tis directly form the manufacturere (especially in laptops or H-a-S situations)
I'm pretty sure the video is linked In the end screen of this video.
The the app in that video is the only one I recommend using for drivers. The rest of them I consider glorified malware.
"YUMI - Multiboot USB Creator" is much better
You missed the mark! You didn't tell us how to make the flash bootable usb drive Back into an ISO file. I don't keep all the ISO's that were used to make all those Flash drives.
You would have to redownload the ISO.
I enjoyed this. I have used Ventoy before and forgot I had it. I have an externall SSD (1TB) that I was planning on rebuilding with Ventoy. I wasn't planning to have the entire drive be the ISO storage, I will also load some other stuff on it for troubleshooting when I don't nave to use Ventoy and rebuild first. or I can use it to store any additional user information I need to copy IF I they don't have a cloud sync or some offline storage to backup their profiles. Ventoy is very useful! I liked your video and your style so You sir have earned my respect and a Sub!
Glad it helped.
I think Easy2Boot is a little better because you can put every thing on it from ISO's for windows and Linux plus a hole lot more.
This one should work for that too. However, I've seen several comments about that program. I may have to check it out.
@@CyberCPU I think you will find it so much easier to use and you have different files for different things eg. A file for ISO's, Linux, Backups and Virous programs. The File for ISO's holds separate files for win server, 7,8,10,11,XP and win PE and the boot screen is cool and easy to navigate.
hey thanks i have tried this before but you explained it good i have it working and works great thanks
I use the E2B+agFM combo, this can also use Ventoy if you need it; but I use E2B method because it's more mature and works better with MBR and has larger Linux ISO support
I have a Windows 11 flash drive that looks different than the other flash drives, it's red. I also put it back into it's retail plastic holder and use my label maker to print a label to put on that package.
I also use ventoy to create bootable ISO. very handy and usefull.
It is.
Damn this is really useful for me because I just found my old usb drive which I lost months ago which has 256GB.
The problem with Ventoy is that some Bios does not allow booting until you enroll the Ventoy certificate...
Just disable secure boot in the bios and it should work fine. With secure boot enabled that isn't a problem but a feature. The purpose of secure boot is to stop the system from booting from unknown boot devices.
Good video. I don't have as much as you, but I use one thumb drive and keep overwriting to it. I keep all of my ISOs on a ssd with a .txt doc I use as a log describing each ISO and how I last imaged it.... MBR/BIOS, GPT/UEFI, tweaks, bypass hardware requirements, machine it was last installed on, etc. I like your new method.... you're right.. a major timesaver.
Glad it helped.
You are aware that you can just put regular programs on the drive too right? Just make a new folder for your driver install program and put an empty file named ".ventoyignore" in the folder you don't want it to search, that way it skips the folder when looking for media.
Also you can change the "tree-view" issue with Plugson.
You can change the background/wall paper and resolution of the Ventoy screen.
As for updating to a new version of Ventoy, that works just fine. No data loss or anything
Good tips. I may do another video on how to customize Ventoy.
@@CyberCPU That'd be a great idea 🙂
You don't even need to put a file with that name in a directory, if it ain't bootable then Ventoy will ignore it anyway. And yes you can get data loss when updating, it's happened to me before. There's a great many variables with that to where you can't just make a blanket statement like that.
@@FlyboyHelosim True, however I was speaking from my own experience, I've never suffered data loss when updating but I get what you mean.
As for the file I just put it in there so that Ventoy doesn't begin to scan the folder at all 🙂
While this is great "for cheaps", I really recommend CD emulator HW for techies (i.e.: doing some systems every week). The main reason: you can make you "parent" drive read-only or hidden.
I've started with Zalman VE300 (2.5" HDD/SSD), isostick (microSD card) and currently Iodd mini (my 2022 discovery; IODD also have 2.5" Zalman clones).
- Zalman VE300 - bulky due to 2.5", but it was the only option in 2012. Provides LCD and selection switch, where you just select an ISO, and the PC sees it as a optical drive (CD/DVD/BD-ROM). You can choose HDD/ODD/HDD+ODD while powering it, using selection switch.
- isostick - just like a thumbdrive, but selection of ISO has to be done in boot menu or writing a config file (making the parent writable). Shows the virtual CD and the card (parent), but it has a HW RO switch (red=writable). Also very slow (USB2.0 speeds).
- iodd mini - just like the VE300, but based on an m.2 and provides full keypad (also has PIN encryption, but I don't care). Much smaller, the only disappointment is the microUSB 3 interface (just like VE300, and I hate the 3.0 micro).
The reason I prefer these? Simple: what if I can't manage to choose a startup device and it boots into an infected Windows? If it's a boot virus, it might infect my drive. While I don't know about EFI boot viruses, I don't trust any writes to my thumbdrive. Therefore I only trust read-only solutions.
I still use some thumbdrives (because of size....doooh!), but only for linux booting (with script to generate ISO selection). I have control over "copy ISO to RAM" or boot from NFS (network).
PS: these devices can also be used with old computers (from 486 with PCI USB card) by booting a floppy with USB CDROM drivers and having other data (Win3.1/95/98) on these devices.
You can also mount VHDs in the IODD mini, do installs with them every day. Works amazing.
Sadly, Ventoy won't boot a lot of kinds of ISO files. It's nice, better than the original situation, for sure, but you will need extra devices for the ISO files Ventoy can't boot.
😅 that intro is so relatable, usually have to plug in the usb, and check the name to know what’s on them. The ones I have are too small to even write some type of legible label on them.
I really should label my drives. However, many of them change a lot. 😂🤣
To label your flash drives, just use a sticky note. Fast, easy label.
Use scissors to cut a small strip from the sticky part of the paper.
I like to write what I want before I cut it off.
Just mark it with stick note and marker :|
Good video.
Thanks.
I would love a list of your isos and proper links to get to them so we can all complete our systems similar or complete to yours
I downloaded all of my old Windows ISOs from Rufus. It will allow you to download only without installing to a thumb drive.
Wanted to know if I could use something like this for a Samsung DeX desktop note 8 phone? I want to download and install a windows program and run it on dex.
This, no wouldn't help in that case. However, I did do a video while back installing Windows 11 on a Raspberry Pi. The Pi uses an Arm processor just like your note does. That video wouldn't help you install Windows 11 on a Note but it would at least point you in the right direction. It is possible for run Windows on Arm. However, I've never heard of anyone doing it on a phone. Not that it's not possible but I haven't seen it.
@@CyberCPU thank you
*Can I install Windows on any Old or New PCs? Because some are in MBR or GPT. Will I get MBR/GPT support issues by using Ventoy while installing Windows?*
Depends on the version of Windows and what work arounds your using.
@@CyberCPU
What workaround are you talking about?
@@himukhan6177 if you have unsupported hardware you would need too have a custom ISO to install Windows 11. You could create the ISO from Rufus and then just copy that ISO to the Ventoy drive without using Rufus to make the USB drive.
I believe you can just download the modified ISO from Rufus without creating the USB drive. You would have to try it. I haven't myself.
This is awsome; where can you download older ver of Windows?
I got my older ISOs from Rufus.
That's handy, always used Rufus but (as far as I know) it only allows one ISO to boot from.
I don't believe Rufus will do a multi boot. It's what I've always used as well. I will probably be using this more through.
Ventoy is awesome, was looking for a PXE solution and found Ventoy was just the simple around fix. I do however use a USB M2 SSD rather than a FlashDrive.
I use Ventoy and it's great. I wish that there was a similar simple to use utility that could handle multiple types of boot media included .IMG.
Ventoy lists IMG (as well as some others) as a supported format on their website. Based on how Ventoy is making the booting magic happen I’m sure IMG files work as well as ISOs or better.
Should do an easy2boot video as it fixes the file tree structure issue you have, uses its own modified version of Ventoy and lets you choose to boot the ISOs on the USB via GPT or MBR on the fly.
Thanks for an osum video. Need to understand; 128gb flash drive recommended exfat or NTFS? And my speeds usb3 drive is 12 MB write and 130 MB read. Is it fine? Thanks 😊
Thank you for this video and I'm a fan of your channel. I have a question about Ventoy. Whenever I boot to an ISO from Ventoy, the display drivers never load, causing my display resolution to be 800 x 600. Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong. Thanks.
Support uefi and legacy boot together or note?!?!
If the ISO is UEFI then you have to boot you UEFI and if the iso is MBR then you have to boot MBR. However, the USB drive will boot on both.
This has nothing to do with USB drives, but I do have that problem as well. But I need to inquire as to where you got that T-Shirt. I need to order a few of them.
The link for the t-shirt is in the video description.
@@CyberCPU That is what I get for laughing at the shirt instead of paying attention. Thanks.
@@donhoover7823 any time. 😉
I tried to use this with a golden image with task sequence but it won’t work because it needs to reboot and still read the usb :( wish I could get this to work it would save me time also. I have to use an iodd drive to accomplish this but they are not cheep and image 16 at a time off line because our network is only allocated to 100mbs for our depot :(