Hi Chris. You asked if you missed anything. imho you missed demonstrating why Ventoy is so easy to use: just dropping ISO or IMG files in Ventoy's partition without the need to do anything else!
Just install a random distro using virtual box, copy that vhd file to ventoy and make your tests. VHD and QCOW are just fancy img with snapshot support.
"command" !! Runs previous command with additional command appended to the front. When I forget to type ls or cd in front of a filepath I use this as well.
@@sentaku4572 I have PTSD from zsh and fish shell or any customizable shell. I've tried fish shell once, made it the default and shit went crazy on me. It destroyed the whole distro, not even a timeshift back up fixed it. I know it's because I don't really know a lot about Linux. Still learning daily.
Got onto the bandwagon while seeing you using it, you brushed it off in a side sentence XD. Since then i promoted it at my workplace and build around it our "rescue system" with VEEAM and so on. we're using it for local restoration and setups whenever our wds is not available at our customer side
Hi @ChrisTitusTech thanks for your video, very clear! I´d to ask you to do a video about home FTP server using the router and about extending Wifi over the house. Maybe some best practices tips. Thank you very much!
I actually had to make & use one of these yesterday to reinstall Windows 11 1 thing I notice most people overlook is when setting up the USB in ventoy, there's a tool option in the top left of the window to turn on or off support for secure boot if you don't you'll have to go into the BIOS and turn off secureboot if done correctly a padlock icon will show in USB setup in ventoy 🤷🏻♂️👍🏼✌🏼
So, Let us say you install Ventoy on a really FAST SSD... Can you LOAD a WINDOWS VHD(X) DISK which is an actual running bootable O/S. - In other words can you run Windows from Ventoy ? Let us say your boot Hard drive fails but you have it backed up to VHD(x) file... Can you successfully boot Your failed Hard drive VHD(x) backup in Ventoy?
I like Ventoy a lot. I have been using it for a while now. I kinda got lazy and started using a setup from MediaCat USB. Great setup of tools with Ventoy.
I've been using Ventoy for just shy of a year and it is as Chris says...AWESOME! Being able to just copy ISO files to you thumb drive and boot them is fantastic. Unless something doesn't work with Ventoy, I don't make bootable drives with Rufus or Etcher anymore.
Can you do a specific video on installing themes and making Ventoy persistent. There are NO English videos on these subjects. Your teaching style is top-quality so to do such a video will make the RUclips algorithm go crazy!!! Thanks for your incredible channel. 👍🏾
This configuration of your terminal is AWESOME! I'm a newbie from Brazil. Any tips of how to. Despite I'm on my first steps on TI on 56yo, I believe this kind of visualization makes easier to do the tasks. In time, thanks for the channel and the useful videos.
I have used Ventoy in the past, it was bit quirky then. It's nice to see it maturing, and the hard drive support is awesome to see! Thanks for the video Chris.
This looks good. I'll give it a try and see if I can free up a few USB sticks. By the looks of it I can use this to multiboot between different ISOs and tools like Gparted, WinRE and Clonezilla on a single USB.
Love your videos bro. They are so informative. Can you do a video on Ventoy - How to make a persistent USB for multiple linux distros. I have only found foreign videos and they are not as easy to follow. Thx!!
I am so glad I found out about Ventoy, No longer do I need to have multiple USB's for Windows and Linux Distroes, now I can have every distro and even different language windows for easy installations on friends PCs!
I made a ventoy drive about 6 months ago(by far easiest way to get a windows installer on linux). I did not realize they added features. I'm about to make a new one. Awesome video. Thanks CTT!
Thanks for another great video! I have 6 usb drives I’m not going to turn into 1! Also I would love to see how you clean up and virus scan computers not in the OS. I’m sure you’re better/more efficient than I am. I typically convince the customer to let me do a fresh Windows install but that comes with it’s headaches too.
The only thing I don’t like about ventoy is that it seems to not want to detect and boot from vhd files and the lack of a folder system can make having lots of isos pretty annoying. What I do to get around this is I use ventoy to boot into grubfm to then boot from my vhds.(No idea if vhd booting has been added or not as I haven’t checked in a few months) Also grubfm can also patch and boot into winpe just from a windows setup iso which might be useful.
Well I was a big fan of Ventoy until I just tried to update it and there was an error which resulted in the USB becoming corrupt and wiped all my ISO files.
I'd like to see a list of a bunch of tools to add to it. I am no distro hopper and have 2 OSs chosen already. Sure wish you'd said *which* folder to drag and drop the iso to. there are 5 subfolders within the Ventoy USB.
I hope they’ll try to make Ventoy work on Macs too. Right now it just doesn’t work and they don’t seem to have it as planned feature. Right now for Macs only something called Refind flashdrive is supposed to work, no instructions and reliability about it given though. And you have to pre-create partitions for each iso if I understood it correctly.
VENTOY IS GREAT-- LOVE IT---- BUT-- BUT -- B U T!!!--- Do not overuse it--- I had mine on a SCANDISK usb and wore it out-- after using it to distro-hop for a bit-- it began putting out corrupt files- or programs failed to boot- etc.. and I'm saying it was NOT VENTOY- that failed-- the USB drive did-- so DO NOT overuse the unit you have it on-- change it every so often..
I just discovered Vintoy and I am very impressed. Actually, Yumi is using a branche of Vintoy. What I really want is folders in the menu, is this possible? That would be very handy to categorize the contents of the disc instead of a long list.
I have yet t get Ventoy to work on any of my systems. Once I select the ISO, all a get is a blank screen and a flashing cursor. Have tried BIOS in UEFI and Legacy Mode, same results. Secure boot is disabled. Haven't been able to find any answers.
How can I boot an ISO made for BIOS to boot on UEFI systems? I could not manage to have Ventoy solve that. I have a bunch of really good boot utility ISOs that are old and won’t boot on newer UEFI systems.
here is a tip if you want to use a different grub theme learned it fro ThioJoe make a folder call it ventoy in that folder make another folder called themes and put your grub theme there but in the folder called ventoy you need to make a text document called ventoy.json these are the line you you need to add { "theme": { "file": "ventoy/theme/Vimix/theme.txt" } } replace the Vimix line with whatever theme you use i used Stylish edit themes does not work anymore on 1.0.45
My dell shoots a "No Signature Error" with ventoy every time. Went through the steps at ventoy site and all I get is a grub prompt, no boot menu select as shown.
Just about every single "superuser" type subject I've come across lately you cover on your channel. Really appreciate you & this blackhole of super useful knowledge =) This ventoy drive is gonna save me lots of time & heartache.
Ventoy is a bit disappointing. It works fine with a B450 motherboard, but on an older H67 one I get a black screen with a white cursor (unless I boot in BIOS mode instead of UEFI). Another multiboot USB tool called AIO Boot did the job better.
Does anyone know of a good free tool I can boot from Ventoy that can easily allow adding UEFI entries? I have a cranky HP and the bios doesn't have a feature to manually add entries and Windows keeps f*cking up the Linux ones. Also has Windows 21H1 changed the default partitioning scheme like to just 2 partitions?
I still prefer paragon for disk partition and management,you don't need to backup data to manage partitions, your best option if you don't have time to backup. But the golem rule: always backup still apply.
Love Ventoy, great for rescue/recovery and linux installs. Haven't been able to get it to work with BSDs or Haiku, but did not put in a ton of work on that.
It truly is a great tool, but 1 issue I am having with ventoy is it doesnt like any changes to its disk structure, so no extra partitions on the usb drive are tolerated, I put it on a 2TB usb3 and as I use clonezilla as a universal backup tool, I'd rather it write the image it to a different partition on the same disk formatted as NTFS for obvious reasons -- it would be perfect if it could allow for an extra partition @ setup for now it means I carry a thumb drive and the 2TB drive around with me as the ventoy partition appears to be read--only after launching clonezilla
Please make a video on best bluetooth adapters for hacker. I can't find the good one. My neighbours are very unsocial they don't listen to us. So, I want to ddos on there bluetooth device. So please explain on a video.
So hyped to have been the one like to make this video hit 1K likes !! Also, I just recently joined the Linux world and boy is it a jungle out here! Right now I really just want to test out and try as many distros to see what works for me. I will definitely be using Ventoy from here on out.
The ability to just swap an ISO to a newer version on the fly is like a dream come true for techies. Just delete the old ISO and drop in the new one. You're done. Simply an amazing tool.
@@benoit.gerin-lajoie I just drop them in the root. Since I also have ISOs from Acronis on there, I put drive image files in a folder to keep the list shorter and easier to manage.
@@benoit.gerin-lajoie I have not put ISOs into any folders, so I cannot say. All my ISOs are in the root. I just know that you can add, delete, replace any ISO and on the next boot, the list is there and you just select the one you want to boot from.
Been using Ventoy now for about a year and love it. No more cases of usb flash drives to label and carry around. I enjoy using Parted Magic and Dban if necessary.
the only sad thing about this project is that I didn't have this 10 years ago...it would have save me sooooooo much pain and horror and hate for Microsoft. I use it for a year now and it's simply AWESOME
Hi Chris. You asked if you missed anything. imho you missed demonstrating why Ventoy is so easy to use: just dropping ISO or IMG files in Ventoy's partition without the need to do anything else!
Works like magic. So far for me all the time.
@@lucasew Just is wonk on older systems. I mean, I guess that's all multi boot utilities
Did u know that u can boot VHD(X) (virtual hard disks) using ventoy
You would make my day if u make a video about it
if you want make a video about it if you do id be interested
Just install a random distro using virtual box, copy that vhd file to ventoy and make your tests. VHD and QCOW are just fancy img with snapshot support.
@@lucasewdoesnt work anymore (at least for windows)
how about a tutorial on how to set up a persistent linux installation on ventoy?
So, sudo !! Runs the last command with sudo? There is a new thing in linux everyday for me 🤦🏾♂️
and echo $? returns the last command's exit code, useful for debugging :)
there is plugin for zsh called "sudo" come with oh-my-zsh when you forget sudo at the beginning of command just double-click on "Esc" and boom.
Yes. "sudo bang bang" its great for the long commands you forgot to type sudo in front of.
"command" !!
Runs previous command with additional command appended to the front.
When I forget to type ls or cd in front of a filepath I use this as well.
@@sentaku4572 I have PTSD from zsh and fish shell or any customizable shell. I've tried fish shell once, made it the default and shit went crazy on me. It destroyed the whole distro, not even a timeshift back up fixed it. I know it's because I don't really know a lot about Linux. Still learning daily.
Got onto the bandwagon while seeing you using it, you brushed it off in a side sentence XD. Since then i promoted it at my workplace and build around it our "rescue system" with VEEAM and so on. we're using it for local restoration and setups whenever our wds is not available at our customer side
Hi @ChrisTitusTech thanks for your video, very clear!
I´d to ask you to do a video about home FTP server using the router and about extending Wifi over the house. Maybe some best practices tips.
Thank you very much!
I actually had to make & use one of these yesterday to reinstall Windows 11
1 thing I notice most people overlook is when setting up the USB in ventoy, there's a tool option in the top left of the window to turn on or off support for secure boot if you don't you'll have to go into the BIOS and turn off secureboot if done correctly a padlock icon will show in USB setup in ventoy 🤷🏻♂️👍🏼✌🏼
I found Ventoy not too long after your video on yumi and I totally agree, I don't know what I'd do without it now!
It's just amazing how well this tool works..just dropping ISOs on the USB drive and using them is a game changer.
So, Let us say you install Ventoy on a really FAST SSD... Can you LOAD a WINDOWS VHD(X) DISK which is an actual running bootable O/S. - In other words can you run Windows from Ventoy ? Let us say your boot Hard drive fails but you have it backed up to VHD(x) file... Can you successfully boot Your failed Hard drive VHD(x) backup in Ventoy?
I like Ventoy a lot. I have been using it for a while now. I kinda got lazy and started using a setup from MediaCat USB. Great setup of tools with Ventoy.
I've been using Ventoy for just shy of a year and it is as Chris says...AWESOME! Being able to just copy ISO files to you thumb drive and boot them is fantastic. Unless something doesn't work with Ventoy, I don't make bootable drives with Rufus or Etcher anymore.
Ah, there it is! Chris finally has his Ventoy-video. :p
Cheers, bud.
Can you do a specific video on installing themes and making Ventoy persistent. There are NO English videos on these subjects. Your teaching style is top-quality so to do such a video will make the RUclips algorithm go crazy!!! Thanks for your incredible channel. 👍🏾
New toys are great! Love this one!
This configuration of your terminal is AWESOME!
I'm a newbie from Brazil. Any tips of how to.
Despite I'm on my first steps on TI on 56yo, I believe this kind of visualization makes easier to do the tasks.
In time, thanks for the channel and the useful videos.
Ventoy is awesome , but my USB sticks are made of MEDICAT, it's a ventoy "distro" in a way made by one single gbatemp member :D
already use it and love it
I have used Ventoy in the past, it was bit quirky then. It's nice to see it maturing, and the hard drive support is awesome to see! Thanks for the video Chris.
This looks good. I'll give it a try and see if I can free up a few USB sticks. By the looks of it I can use this to multiboot between different ISOs and tools like Gparted, WinRE and Clonezilla on a single USB.
lol I just play around with ventoy for the last 2-3 hours :D
Loved your video! Medicat just popped up as suggested video. Do you suggest using this Medicat Program, any thoughts? Thank you!🔧
Love your videos bro. They are so informative. Can you do a video on Ventoy - How to make a persistent USB for multiple linux distros. I have only found foreign videos and they are not as easy to follow. Thx!!
I am so glad I found out about Ventoy, No longer do I need to have multiple USB's for Windows and Linux Distroes, now I can have every distro and even different language windows for easy installations on friends PCs!
Thanks Chris, instainstall right during the video, really needed such a tool. Oh, and it boots VHDXs too! Simply great!
Parted magic page gets a 404 now in the description.
Your Parted Magic link is broken.
I made a ventoy drive about 6 months ago(by far easiest way to get a windows installer on linux). I did not realize they added features. I'm about to make a new one. Awesome video. Thanks CTT!
Thanks for another great video! I have 6 usb drives I’m not going to turn into 1!
Also I would love to see how you clean up and virus scan computers not in the OS. I’m sure you’re better/more efficient than I am. I typically convince the customer to let me do a fresh Windows install but that comes with it’s headaches too.
Yes, I agree. A demo of how to scan a machine for viruses or malware using this tool would be great!
As I already tested, Ventoy uses grub themes too, so you can customize it to themes out there or your own
Link seems to be broken for Parted Magic.
not for me no gui its just to old school i guess just weird
My only problem with ventoy and yumi is suport for old bios, in that case I need rufus, the only one that works for me
Let those systems finally die. These systems are more than a decade old and uefi/efi is around since 2006. In 2010 it started to succeed bios.
You should mention how to install the isos anyway!!!
The only thing I don’t like about ventoy is that it seems to not want to detect and boot from vhd files and the lack of a folder system can make having lots of isos pretty annoying. What I do to get around this is I use ventoy to boot into grubfm to then boot from my vhds.(No idea if vhd booting has been added or not as I haven’t checked in a few months) Also grubfm can also patch and boot into winpe just from a windows setup iso which might be useful.
I think they added VHD support!
Is there something similar to Parted Magic but for free?
Well I was a big fan of Ventoy until I just tried to update it and there was an error which resulted in the USB becoming corrupt and wiped all my ISO files.
I'd like to see a list of a bunch of tools to add to it. I am no distro hopper and have 2 OSs chosen already. Sure wish you'd said *which* folder to drag and drop the iso to. there are 5 subfolders within the Ventoy USB.
Hey Chris, I like the video...! Notice that your Recommendations Link are not working...!
I hope they’ll try to make Ventoy work on Macs too. Right now it just doesn’t work and they don’t seem to have it as planned feature.
Right now for Macs only something called Refind flashdrive is supposed to work, no instructions and reliability about it given though. And you have to pre-create partitions for each iso if I understood it correctly.
VENTOY IS GREAT-- LOVE IT---- BUT-- BUT -- B U T!!!--- Do not overuse it--- I had mine on a SCANDISK usb and wore it out-- after using it to distro-hop for a bit-- it began putting out corrupt files- or programs failed to boot- etc.. and I'm saying it was NOT VENTOY- that failed-- the USB drive did-- so DO NOT overuse the unit you have it on-- change it every so often..
I just discovered Vintoy and I am very impressed. Actually, Yumi is using a branche of Vintoy. What I really want is folders in the menu, is this possible? That would be very handy to categorize the contents of the disc instead of a long list.
What are your thoughts on medicat? It uses ventoy and comes with several iso and apps to fix computers that are down.
I really have to try this one out but I usually use Multiboot USB but that one is closed source so this seems like a way better option
I have yet t get Ventoy to work on any of my systems. Once I select the ISO, all a get is a blank screen and a flashing cursor. Have tried BIOS in UEFI and Legacy Mode, same results. Secure boot is disabled. Haven't been able to find any answers.
How can I boot an ISO made for BIOS to boot on UEFI systems? I could not manage to have Ventoy solve that. I have a bunch of really good boot utility ISOs that are old and won’t boot on newer UEFI systems.
Hey Titus, think you could update your Linux zsh customisation guide? It looks a bit different than the video and I'd love to make it look like yours!
here is a tip if you want to use a different grub theme learned it fro ThioJoe make a folder call it ventoy in that folder make another folder called themes and put your grub theme there but in the folder called ventoy you need to make a text document called ventoy.json these are the line you you need to add
{
"theme": {
"file": "ventoy/theme/Vimix/theme.txt"
}
}
replace the Vimix line with whatever theme you use i used Stylish edit themes does not work anymore on 1.0.45
Do you know if I can put Medicat on my Ventoy thumb drive along side of Hiren's and other ISOs?
Ventoy used to work with chrome flex when it came as a .img file, now flex comes as a .bin file, any suggestions?
On ventoy you can even create persistent volumes without any partitioning. Very nice.
i have live usb of linuxmint. but it is not persistent. so unable to make any changes to grub file. please let me know how to persist
Can I substitute a 1 tb external SSD hard drive if I don't have a USB drive?
its 5x better than YUMI, which was pretty good already
NEAT IDEA--- I have a 150 gig SSD that I can put it on.... :)
every distrohopper's wet dream (including mine)
Which Linux distro is this? I like the terminal UI.
I have ventoy installed on an m.2 in and external USB connected case.
make a video on how to add persistence thank
you
ventoy plus parted vmagic is just that, magic
Don't know why mate? I cannot install pop_ps through Ventoy.
That's weird I just used pop os on my ventoy usb last week
@@mrhaydendp But don't know why doesn't work for me.
Maybe u should update it or google any error logs it gave. I fixed mine that way when Arch couldn't boot
Hey Chris do you know how to install it on SSD ( bootable drive on same disk as bootable disk 0 ?, Different partition on same disk )??
Thanks
My dell shoots a "No Signature Error" with ventoy every time. Went through the steps at ventoy site and all I get is a grub prompt, no boot menu select as shown.
yes, you missed how to make it persistent. Good video btw.
What terminal is that?? I love it and I need it in my life 😖
@ Chris Titus Tech
How uninstall Windows 10 update which bring into taskbar "news" ad ?
Just about every single "superuser" type subject I've come across lately you cover on your channel. Really appreciate you & this blackhole of super useful knowledge =)
This ventoy drive is gonna save me lots of time & heartache.
Ventoy is a bit disappointing. It works fine with a B450 motherboard, but on an older H67 one I get a black screen with a white cursor (unless I boot in BIOS mode instead of UEFI). Another multiboot USB tool called AIO Boot did the job better.
what's the zsh theme, it looks amazing
Does anyone know of a good free tool I can boot from Ventoy that can easily allow adding UEFI entries? I have a cranky HP and the bios doesn't have a feature to manually add entries and Windows keeps f*cking up the Linux ones. Also has Windows 21H1 changed the default partitioning scheme like to just 2 partitions?
Hmm. Wonder if I could make this fix my UEFI issue. Whenever I swap a drive it doesn't see the grub loader and I have to type it into the UEFI shell.
be nice to see you review the medicat tool
I still prefer paragon for disk partition and management,you don't need to backup data to manage partitions, your best option if you don't have time to backup. But the golem rule: always backup still apply.
Love Ventoy, great for rescue/recovery and linux installs. Haven't been able to get it to work with BSDs or Haiku, but did not put in a ton of work on that.
It truly is a great tool, but 1 issue I am having with ventoy is it doesnt like any changes to its disk structure, so no extra partitions on the usb drive are tolerated, I put it on a 2TB usb3 and as I use clonezilla as a universal backup tool, I'd rather it write the image it to a different partition on the same disk formatted as NTFS for obvious reasons -- it would be perfect if it could allow for an extra partition @ setup for now it means I carry a thumb drive and the 2TB drive around with me as the ventoy partition appears to be read--only after launching clonezilla
This software seems useful, but using a Chinese boot loader seems risky for even the most lax OPSEC policy.
I had problems using Ventoy with Open Media Vault. Cannot install. I don't know if it's working now.
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One thing you missed is legacy boot. Does Ventoy support both UEFI and older legacy systems?
Please make a video on best bluetooth adapters for hacker. I can't find the good one. My neighbours are very unsocial they don't listen to us. So, I want to ddos on there bluetooth device. So please explain on a video.
think gonna make a 128gb usb stick with ventoy i have 50gb of linux distro's
So hyped to have been the one like to make this video hit 1K likes !!
Also, I just recently joined the Linux world and boy is it a jungle out here! Right now I really just want to test out and try as many distros to see what works for me. I will definitely be using Ventoy from here on out.
The ability to just swap an ISO to a newer version on the fly is like a dream come true for techies. Just delete the old ISO and drop in the new one. You're done. Simply an amazing tool.
Where do you put the isos ? in a specific folder or directly in the root of the key ?
@@benoit.gerin-lajoie I just drop them in the root. Since I also have ISOs from Acronis on there, I put drive image files in a folder to keep the list shorter and easier to manage.
@@benoit.gerin-lajoie It only take a bit of time playing with it to come to the thought of "Why didn't I come up with this idea? It's great."
In short, we can create folders and sort our isos in them and Ventoy will display our folders !?
@@benoit.gerin-lajoie I have not put ISOs into any folders, so I cannot say. All my ISOs are in the root. I just know that you can add, delete, replace any ISO and on the next boot, the list is there and you just select the one you want to boot from.
Been using Ventoy now for about a year and love it. No more cases of usb flash drives to label and carry around. I enjoy using Parted Magic and Dban if necessary.
Ventoy makes all the predecessors obsolete. I would be nice to have gparted and/or Rescatux integrated with it on the bottom menu.
the only sad thing about this project is that I didn't have this 10 years ago...it would have save me sooooooo much pain and horror and hate for Microsoft.
I use it for a year now and it's simply AWESOME
How do you record your bios?
An i use ventoy on a mac?
I use YUMI instead.
Excelent software, great video, Thanks bro
I use portable SSD work amazing few min and install any iso or run on sdd
I've used it since your Opencore tutorial, when I saw you using it! Thanks Chris!
Is Parted Magic based on Slackware? Cool!
Just did today research and used it for flashing windows. And now here is the video. 🔥
Easy2boot for me is way better and can run ventoy inside.
I watched the video and it went to the next video,
I came back to like this one.
I would highly recommend exa to ls look colourful
Thanks
love it
Odd cannot get this video to play, just sits and spins
I am using ventoy for a year and I haven't faced any error