To use Ventoy, you need a USB drive (be it a USB stick, an external hard drive, a memory card, etc.) that is large enough to hold the ISO images you are going to use.

For future reference, to write this text I use this version. The latest release (1.0.17) is just 4 days old, from July 25th.

The first release of Ventoy (1.0.0) was made available on April 5th. Ventoy was very useful for me last week, when I installed Windows and Linux on my new SSD Kingston A400, which I received from warranty after the previous one suffered from the SATAFIRM S11 bug. I have been using it to test Linux Kamarada 15.2 Beta. I myself started using Ventoy on the recommendation of a friend. You can find Ventoy very handy if you work on formatting and repairing computers, or if you like to try out different Linux distros. You can also copy other files to drive, so you can continue to use it for other purposes. With Ventoy, you don’t need to format the drive again and again: you can copy and delete ISO images as you wish. Besides that, tools usually prevent the drive from being used for other purposes (it’s not possible to copy other files). That way, you need to reformat the drive every time you want to boot another ISO image.

A 'Ventoy Compatible' concept is introduced by Ventoy, which can help support any ISO file.Ventoy supports legacy BIOS and UEFI (with and without secure boot), MBR and GPT partition tables, which makes it kind of universal.Ĭommonly, tools to create bootable USB drives extract the ISO image contents to the drive, allowing just one ISO image to be used at a time. 700+ ISO files have been tested and compiled in an easily accessible list. Both Legacy BIOS and UEFI are supported in the same way. You will also be able to copy many ISO files simultaneously, and Ventoy will provide you with a boot menu from which to select them. With Ventoy, you will not need to format the disk over and over again you need to copy the ISO file to the USB drive and boot it. Ventoy is an Open Source tool to create a bootable USB drive for Windows and Linux ISO files.

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