The ULTIMATE USB Boot Drive
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- THE LAST BOOTABLE USB YOU'LL EVER NEED
Links:
• Samsung USB on Amazon ⇨ geni.us/Bb5B (affiliate)
• Ventoy Website ⇨ ventoy.net/en/index.html
• Ventoy GitHub ⇨ github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
• Gnome-Look ⇨ www.gnome-look.org/browse/cat...
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Some Boot Disks I have:
• Memtest86: www.memtest86.com/
• Hiren Boot CD: www.hirensbootcd.org/
Custom Theme json code:
{
"theme": {
"file": "ventoy/themes/Vimix/theme.txt"
}
}
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0:00 - Intro
1:22 - Choose a USB Drive
2:05 - Installing Ventoy
5:00 - Set Up Secure Boot
5:57 - Using Ventoy
6:46 - Custom Themes
8:30 - Examples
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I've discorvered Ventoy a couple of months ago and since that day literally everone in our IT departement uses it. I think I'll add a theme to mine, didn't knew that was possible
Me too. However I did not Make myself the time to test it yet. I've been using YUMI for multibopt USB.
@ThíoJoe do you really think anyone falls for this lol
You m ean everYone,and you didnt knOw it was possible,and your "department" uses it? SORRY,I had to.
@@xScooterAZx what? I knew that there are multi boot usb sticks but we used external HDDs with that functionality. When I saw how easy to use ventoy is, I showed it my colleagues in our IT department (we’re 5 people) and we got us some super small Samsung USB thumb drives.
@@RealThore This sounds really good,can you please tell me more about the Samsung USB thumb drives and how I might get one,..just in case. :}
Tip for manually changing the theme:
(1) You need to have the "ventoy.json" in the "ventoy" folder under the root.
(2) After that, you need to remove the initial "ventoy/" out of the theme location. It's already looking from "/ventoy".
Otherwise, you're effectively pointing it to "ventoy/ventoy/themes/.../theme.txt", since it's already in "/ventoy" and you've included a second "ventoy/" in the directory location.
Too Long, Too Confusing:
Fix test for the custom modification at 7:56 :
"
{
"theme": {
"file": "themes/Vimix/theme.txt"
}
}
"
Thank you, I don't know how I missed than when trying to make it work.
Thanks! that fixed it for me
Ayyy thanks Tyler
thank you Tyler
The most good thing is that, after install ventoy on usb stick I can use the big partition as my iso bank as well as a normal usb stick for daily use.
Your videos are so great. Rapid fire, high info, crystal clear delivery, with no extra crap. Don't ever change!
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@@birdmaster4973 i reported him
It wasn't always like that. ;D
@@mikkojala i wanted to see ):
Just when I thought USB boot drives couldn't get any better... Thio uploads this
Me too. Was going to make several separate ones.
@@yaschan99 In some cases it's still better to have separate ones, as Ventoy isn't compatible with everything. If you're a tech that installs Windows 10 a lot, that'd be something I would keep on its own USB drive, for example.
The man is golden o
@@FlyboyHelosim why?
@@kairitadano I think I made myself pretty clear, but to reiterate, Ventoy isn't compatible with all computers. It's another layer that can go wrong. Ventoy uses its own partition on the USB drive and not all computers can read it, as well as not all computers being able to load the bootloader menu properly, load the ISO files, etc. If a USB drive only has one installation on it, then there's no need for unique partitions, not need for bootloaders, and no problem reading from an pre-extracted ISO file.
This is definitely going to be useful to use! I've been using Rufus with one ISO at a time, which is convenient, but also inconvenient. It could easily store more than one thing. That's amazing how it simplifies putting ISOs on there!
I did it in the past and not everything seemed to work. Maybe, they've fixed it since then. When I did Win10, the install wouldn't complete because you don't have the driver for the USB ... or something like that. So, didn't work for that.
@@PoeLemic Do you think you had issues with secure boot? Support has to be enabled when making the USB as ThioJoe has covered in the video. You also have to either disable secure boot, or allow Ventoy with it as ThioJoe has covered as well.
@Jason Duggan You know how to remove the startup banner in E2B?
@@PoeLemic Yes, not all OS works.. my Win 10 didn't work on any Legacy/MBR or UEFI (with no Secure Boot) or UEFI (with Secure Boot).. and some Linux boot disk too (Can't recalled whether it was the SystemRescue or the SuperGRUB2 or the BootRepair). I only recalled it didn't worked and I had to create a single bootdisk.
@@DilbertCronicles I have one doubt.after installing ventoy on one USB,whether it can be used in legacy and UEFI mode .
I've been using Ventoy for a couple of months. This video covers many features I didn't know about. A fantastic utility. Twenty-three years ago, I bought a PC with a 8Gig HD. Now a 128Gig USB drive costs $40, a small fraction.
Lmao 8GB HDD. I'm just imagining a drive with a disk the size of a quarter. So small.
@@Guru_1092 every drcive wont change the size of it lol it will be bulky anyways
My dad passed me a 2002 pc with a 30gb hdd some months ago. I really like it and I'm installing the drivers on it cuz i installed windows me. It originally came with xp but it was slow so i decided to downgrade.
@@Guru_1092 Back then file sizes were at most KBs
@@cmdlet98 Not quite. For example, Duke Nukem 3D (installation/compressed) was 13 MB, requiring 25MB on destination disk. It took 3 days to FTP it to my friend in 1998 lol
Finally, someone that shows how to setup Ventoy step-by-step. I've been planning to setup me up an USB like this, but haven't had time. Did it once before, but not everything worked.
Same here
Worth noting that you can also store files just fine in a ventoy drive, which is really useful for me because I have a bunch of small windows tweaks, auto hotkey scripts and stuff that I'd want to keep handy. Good video!
What other tools you got on there?
Bump lol always down for more tools in the kit
Can you please share them with us
Sorry for not replying earlier everyone, I'm afraid it's not much worth sharing, just a few personal preference things. I have a one-click registry tweak to disable the useless 3D Objects folder, another that adds some command prompt and powershell options to the right click menu, one that removes the US keyboard (because it keeps adding itself back on my pc for some reason), and a few AHK scripts that I use for games that don't let you rebind some things. It's mostly the idea that I wanted to share. I'd share the registry files but you shouldn't trust registry files from strangers on the internet, all this stuff can be found easily on google.
@@achillesa5894 the prodigal son returns... Lol ty
Ily joe u saved me like 10 times
10 times more isos
@@jvav 100 time more
Thank you so much. This is so useful. I just made this ,absolutely love it
I remember when you used to do those satirical tech vids, glad to see the improvement and quality from your past. Keep up the good work my guy.
Yes we all remember “classic” ThioJoe :-)
What a coincidence that I spent the afternoonc researching, creating and testing a Ventoy USB drive, and then you came out with this video which got recommended to me! I thought this was at least a year old already!
And yes, it works like a charm. For multibooting there is also YUMI, but I had issues with that program when trying to have Hiren's Boot PE and the Windows 10 installer on the same drive.
I also used YUMI -- many times over a few _years,_ -- but I also had a baffling issue, though I can't swear it was due to YUMI. I just kept noticing that over time, the various Linux distros I'd put on my bootable drive would no longer boot after some period of time. It happened on several different flash drives and at least three different distros. What they all had in common were me, my computer, and YUMI. I could never figure that out but it sure was frustrating. Unfortunately I could also never get a response from the developer about it. That aside I was really impressed with the software. I also had Hiren's on the flash drive but not with Windows, so I can't speak to that. At least a year ago I discovered Ventoy and I'll probably give it a try soon.
this is so cool, i didn't know anything like this existed, i literally have 5 usb drives for different ISOs, total game changer for me!
Thank you - great video with all details, no fuss, just perfect!
YES!!! Thank you for the video and thank you to the folks that pointed out Ventoy in the first place.
Amazing I was looking for a duel booter software
Thanks, ThioJoe :)
Dude, this is very cool, i didn't even knew this existed!
I have waited for this video. How did you not know about ventoy. Good video!
WOW, this is absolutely awesome! Ventoy I'm guessing mounts the selected ISO into memory pretty much in the same way that virtual CD/DVD/Blu-Ray drives do before booting into whatever OS is in the ISO🙃 Very cool and awesome! 👍
Thank you OH SO MUCH Thio. GREATLY APPRECIATE ALL of your video's. Many, MANY BLESSINGS to you.🙏🏼💯💪👍
Very helpful. Especially with secure boot. Thank you and the community.
Hey! your videos are very helpful for me lately! Keep it up!
This....is really helpful and saving me a lot of times and costs. I currently have 12 usb drive and different boot. Really appreciated to you and community who introduce this.
Great video. I currently have a couple of different USB disks that hold different OS's (a couple Linux distros and Windows 10). It would be nice to get them combined all in one. My old Hiram's disk is out of date, so that needs to be updated.
Pure GOLD. Thanks bro!
This is so helpful thanks!!!!
Super helpful honestly, uploaded at the same time where I was about to buy a laptop. Now I can diagnose if there's any problems. Thank you!
when i first found ventoy ,it;was like my whole life was a lie
Now this is exactly what I needed. Thanks for a well detailed video.
THIS is badass!!! Creating mine now! Thank you
Im gonna try this later today. I just did set this up last night. Also I highly recommend anyone getting a cheap SSD(much faster than standard usb-sticks) and a SATA to USB3-cable.
Thats how I do it at least.
I have my usb sticks on my keychain, cause every time i come across someone with a dysfunctional computer, and having an ssd would definitely be harder! :D
@@tatterdemalion898 I've had a pico usb on my keyring for almost 10 years in anticipation for such a scenario but it has never happened lmao -_-
@@gee_ do your friends know that? Cause mine do, and someone, always has something to reoair/check 🤣
This is actually pretty handy, thanks!
I owe you for this one. That is amazing
1:25
Thiojoe: Bigger the Better!
Thiojoe: *proceeds to pick up the smallest one*
He means storage But i get the joke
He means storage But i get the joke
He means
I think he means the type how fast is it like 3.0 flash drive
@@heart755 he already said that But i get the joke
It’s hilarious the way you show the searches you made for the stock videos. Where do you find them?
Yea i figure it would be a good goof. I got those from envato elements
@@ThioJoe oh thanks
@@ThioJoe I lost my computer now and I just saw ur last video pls help I acnt even boot into my pc plz help without deleting my files 😭😭 😭
Timestamp?
@@XTR_NEELAN did you find your computer? how will you boot into a machine thats lost in the ethos?
Love the content! I plan to make a disk tonight. Thanks for putting together the video.
Thank you Joe, it's truly useful, as I used Hiren's CD
I'd love to see you create a video on *"How to boot from a USB drive if your BIOS doesn't support USB boot"*. I've heard you can use a legacy program called "PLoP Boot Manager" that allows you to create a boot loader that will boot from a floppy disk or a CD-ROM. After it will recognize USB thumb drives as a bootable option and allow you to boot. I'd love to hear about this is a video along with any other 3rd party programs that are out there. :)
Normally you would just hit F12 or one of your F keys on the top row like F10 or F11 at power-on boot-up depending on your pc manufacturer, if it doesn't show a boot up screen and just enters windows you are probably in sleep mode, the pc must be powered off to see the boot-up logo, Dell is F12 to see a list of boot start options, this is not the same as entering your bios with F1 or F2. Note, you need to have the USB plugged in on this because if not it will not list it as an option in some cases. As an added note, if your bias has a password you can normally just search the internet for the password for your specific pc and manufacture if it is a name brand, if it is a pc built by a family owned business you will need to contact them for bios passwords if you didn't set it yourself, but if you aren't actually entering the bios you should not need the password.
@@anamericancitizen2971 Yes that is true, but unfortunately in some case there is a bug in the bios and you cant fix it. Especial for HP Pavilion 6 and 7 Laptop series. This will freeze during boot up "VTloading...". I got that laptop... :( And they do not update the bios version anymore now. So in this case the "PLoP Boot Manager" is a good solution. :)
This was the only ventoy instruction video i have watched that told me about the secure boot option.... THANK YOU!!!!!!
Nice video
I really love your videos. Please never stop.
Running very smoothly thankyou
Thanks Joe now I can finally repair my Win 10 after it being kept in its broken state for 6 months 🤧
Xboot does pretty much the same thing but it's what I used before ventoy came out. Ventoy is better. But both can add or remove iso with out needing to reformat each time.
Nice TY thio 🙏🙏🙏
very useful, good work & keep it up mate!
cuando descubres que con la opción localboot puedes ejecutar isos desde cualquier ssd o disco duró que este conectado descubres el potencial oculto
I used ventoy with my external SSD. SSD speed is faster and now the price is right (cheaper than couple years ago). I also try using external NVMe Drive, but the it's easy to get hot. Therefore, If anyone consider using other than USB Drive, you should pick external SSD Drive. You can use NVMe external but remember to stick the enclosure with fan to make it colder or buy the expensive one because the controller is the key, the cheaper enclosure usually has not good controller (easy to get hot). If I have time, then I'll show my usb boot kits, tips and trick around it.
Fantastic information my friend, thank you!!
i've looked at a lot of videos to install ventoy
and yours is the best
Has anyone figured out how to get Ubuntu to boot from a Ventoy formatted USB drive? I followed all the steps in this video and then copied the Ubuntu 21.10 ISO to it. Everything else boots OK from the USB stick (such as Hiren's BootCD), but not Ubuntu. It throws an error about an invalid signature of some sort. I tried changing Secure Boot to "audit mode" on my Dell laptop, but it didn't work.
I've been using easy2boot for the same type of job. It allows me to do both UEFI (with some secure boot tricks but don't know the state of that as Microsoft has interfered with it on multiple occasions) and CSM/legacy type booting with many types of files and can do other things like pass options to have Windows installer install with your own keycode autoentered, preconfigure various settings, install most drivers by running either your official installers or third party tools, and apply some security updates before the machine is put online again.
For any of the USB boot media options, you may want to consider faster USB flash drives if regularly using it as those Samsung ones have shown to be a bottleneck compared to other options available.
These flash drives are not designed for this use. Depending how the media works that you boot from it, its use may be treated more like a hard drive which not only shows how bad drive performance is, it will likely lead to failure much earlier than expected. I went through a Samsung Extreme PRO USB 3.1 128GB and bought another + have a Patriot Magnum(?) 64GB which do work. An external hard drive (SSD best but magnetic beats some of the junk people buy for USB sticks on these tasks too) is better for both speed and reliability at these tasks. While more expensive, I went with an IODD mini 256GB myself which I did setup with easy2boot (partitioned to 128GB for boot compatibility with some systems) though most times I want to boot content from it, I let the drive emulate a DVD drive and/or hard drive as needed. That gets me away from hassles involved in supporting UEFI+legacy/CSM booting, lets secure boot capable media have that property carry through, and can make the media write protected or remove the visibility of its main storage entirely so the computer connected to it can have tools ran from it without risk of infection, deletion, improper eject, etc.
SanDisk Extreme Pro 3.1 (not Samsung?)
@@steve6375 I didn't test as many drives as you but yes those Samsung drives a few coworkers used in the past based on price, availability, and convenience didn't stack up at all for performance of moving big files, let alone the small transfers that booting caused. I lost that job when the business I worked for closed so my need for such stuff changed and am now back to mostly personal use where I am learning more about BSD stuff by choice. Maybe I'll work with developers there to get FreeBSD multipurpose boot media support issues improved. Thanks again for the great work you've done sharing in this area steve6375.
Perfect. Only solution that worked on my pc running Windows 7 and SD card w/ USB-C adapter. I was able to successfully install RHEL 8 as a dual boot flawlessly. Thank you!!!!
I never thought I'd ever say this about anything uploaded by ThioJoe - the guy who once uploaded a tutorial about giving your PC an oil change. But this is actually excellent!
I've tried a few multiboot tools such as YUMI and MULTISYSTEM. But VENTOY is much easier and works better in my experience. Good video explaining it.
Good to know. I heard of Ventoy a long time ago and was intrigued but haven't had a reason to try it until recently. I also used YUMI a number of times.
Didn't know this was a thing this is exactly what i needed in my life. Must have been to early to the last video because i didnt see this in the comments. Thanks for sharing this.
Very very instructive video. Truly many thanks
Wow! Thanks for telling!
Very informative!
Thanks for giving thie knowledge
RMPrepUSB is much more stable on variety of computers, but at the cost of being a lot more complicated with its own quirks. Served me good for over 8 years with Win Vista/7/8/8.1/10 installations (even supports Win XP). 👌 Glad to see Ventoy is getting better & better. 👍 BTW, USB stick with a physical read-only switch is a must when dealing with ransomware/virus infected machines. Wonder why all major manufacturers moved away from offering such solutions?
For this, I use an IODD Mini, and that has a physical write protected mode.
MediCat is based on Ventoy and it is a much better alternative to Hirens Boot CD
Be wary, A scammer pretending to be Thio is advertising crypto in a reply to this comment, I already reported it. Thio only did a like and did NOT advertise crypto!
How legal is Medicat?
How trustworthy is Medicat?
(genuine questions)
Buddy, that was a very useful video creating my multiple boot usb key for os craftworks in my school labs. Thanks a lot!
Great instruction. Thank you for the time and effort you took to make this video and share it with us. Greetings from Croatia.
I personally use YUMI, but I didn't know about Ventoy!
I am also currently using Yumi, and it's been a while since I've heard about Ventoy and want to test it
It seems so much better than Yumi.
With Yumi ot takes quite a while to make a bootable ISO.
I've been using YUMI for years. Works great !
I used YUMI quite a few times too. Have any of you ever experienced one of the OS's or utilities on your bootable drive suddenly fails to boot? That happened to me with several different Linux distros on several different flash drives. They'd work fine at first, and I'd boot in the live environment dozens of times, then one day it would simply fail to boot. This happened specifically to at least two different versions of Linux Mint, but also to several other distros. The only thing I could figure out that they all had in common was YUMI. I've only met one other person -- in these comments, in fact -- who has mentioned that issue! If it weren't for that, I'd have been pleased with the software. I found it to be intuitive and compatible with lots of utilities and operating systems. I'm going to try Ventoy next, as I heard of it a year or more ago and it sounded even easier.
Ventoy is amazing but still have few limitations. For me I couldn't use it with Tails (probably a security feature) and Zorin (no idea why). Still this is the ultimate distro hopping tool.
There was a Windows tool called "multi-boot usb" I think, that I thought worked with tails. I think the site live cd has a link to it.
@@PhilLesh69 First time I hear about it. Thanks bro.
I tried Zorin educational with YUMI and did not work. Then I realized it was the FAT32 limitation to 4Gb file size. If the ISO is larger than 4Gb, try formatting the Ventoy drive with NTFS or exFat.
You can also try YUMI.
@@moamenabdelkawy5718 Did you find it? What's it called?
I just found this video and am already playing around with this app, very impressed
Awesome Video Joe. Thank you very much!
Great video. I shared it with some sysadmins. Also, you may wish to add Puppy Linux to your list of cool bootable OS options. It also comes in an ISO package.
Good recommend, I use Puppy on my Ventoy drive. Tho slacko puppy doesn't seem to want to boot from Ventoy,.
Ah, I remember my first 128 MB pen drive...good times, now a 64 GB one cost 10 bucks... cool \o\
Still waiting for the 10 TB pen drives btw
It’s a shame they don’t exist but it’s probably because most 1tb pen drives are always scams.
I found two 128 Mb USB flash drives abandoned in a drawer and I am using them for printing documents and images.
And there are even very small Linux distrbutions, such as DSL that can fit on that :)
Nice, I was just watching your "4 USB boot drives everyone should use" video, and then I see this!
Great piece of software. Thank yah
Me who uses Kali: **feels the power**
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Hey ThioJoe, this was an awesome and informative video. Thanks for sharing this bit of knowledge; sure will come in handy for my line of work.
Oh neat I remember this when I came across it because of a reddit thread sometime last year.
It was still in its early beta version back then. Some ISOs worked, occasional detection issues, etc. But it looks like all that's been fixed, gonna give it an update and test out again. Thanks!
Damn this is what I was looking for in my whole life. I used to use AIO boot, but it's hot garbage
@ThíoJoe Was a valiant effort, or it would be if you didn't put tildes in front of every letter to avoid getting caught by the spam filter.
I feel like a cave man using rufus and having a separate usb drive for all of my usb boot drives
Rufus won’t be obsolete, you can still write a live Linux system to flash drives
Looks nice. I used to use a grub variant called BURG and it allowed PC speaker sounds to be played so each boot choice could play its own sound.
yeah usefull crap there..
@@ersendal2466 You're mumbling, boy.
@@cosmicraysshotsintothelight .. yeah cRaXpper..
@@ersendal2466 Yeah, you run ReTardOS. Damn, growthefuckupboy.
@@cosmicraysshotsintothelight chill .. crapper . everything is a crap these days..
This video is great. can't wait to use this program.
You make my day better everyday you upload
😂🤣🤣🤣 I have not made a recovery copy on my new computer, someday I may regret this.
@ThíoJoe Been near 3 years now. Got as far as buying a 16 GB JetFlash some time ago. I can always do a clean install from MS as I have near zero Data
@@ethimself5064 it’s a fake thiojoe :(
@@gunkymcsplunky 🤣🤣 Thanks
Hi Joe: quick question: I'd like to include my Windows Recovery drive but it's burned to a USB drive. Is there a simple way to convert that to a bootable ISO image for storage along side the other ISOs? Or, is there an option to write the Window Recovery image to an ISO, directly?
Not sure that will work. Windows Recovery likes to be on it's own USB drive without anything else. I don't use Windows Recovery myself. I use Macrium Reflect to image my C drive. I make an image of my C drive every couple weeks. You could try making a Windows Recovery boot DVD and see if that might create an ISO file. I haven't tested that..since I use Macrium.
@Mike the Monk Nope!
Great stuff. Just getting back into IT after a long hiatus and this is perfect. Looks like we've come a long way from the very basic Windows PE disks I once knew.
I used hirenboot inside ventoy and it was a life saver. Thank you.
Samsung USB : $12 very cheap
in my country price: Rs. 4500/- god damn it is too expensive
Hmm weird
I am using an 8Gb USB. It is just fine for a couple ISOs. Or a 32 Gb if need more.
May be because it's imported from US, SanDisk ones cheap
it wont boot to the usb bruh
You have to ho into your settings and set it to be able to boot from usb. It gives ya boot from hard drive, cd/dvd disk, network etc
@@syrsknight that was 1 year ago, ofc i was able to fix it lmao
OMG! I just watched the other video and was about to google how to do this very thing, who wants to carry a bunch of usb's when you only need one. Thank you.
Ventoy is AWESOME 👍👍 Thank you Thio for introducing me to this AMAZING program!
Thanks for this video!
Dude this is going to be so helpful! Thanks!!
@ThíoJoe hello FAKEoJoe
Man You deserve a lot more subscribers....at least 10 mill
I love this tool!
Very useful indeed thanks mate ❤️👍🏻
nice job thio
Great video, thanks for information
Dude!!!! Thank you so much! This is super useful
Yes! He did a video on this awesome USB boot software!
I really love my IODD Mini, every time I see some talks about boot loader solutions 😋
NICE! I wasn't aware of the GRUB themes. Good to know that you can use just one USB for booting multiple disk image formats.
Really happy to have stumbled across this useful information. Now I can keep all those iso & img files in one place and boot into them easily and quickly.