Ventoy - An Easy to Use MultiBoot USB Tool.
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2021
- Ventoy is an easy to use tool for creating a bootable USB drive that can boot several operating systems from 1 USB stick.
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it took me a minute to find, since the list isn't in alphabetical order, but my favorite distro by far is Lenovo BIOS Update.
The song of our people
Ah yes 3CX Phone
@@nahrafe my favorite
my favorite is lenovo diagnostics
@@TXPer dude Lenovo Vantage™ is where it's at, you're missing out bro
As a person who wrote a single ISO on my 1tb stick. I am happy to see this
Question. Can we create a partitions or something to load iso and one for regular file storage. I have 128 gigs usb and I don't want to use it only as live load os stick.
@@vidhyachan6494 Yes if you resize the exFat partition
@@vidhyachan6494 just make a folder with the name of "ventoyignore" and put your other stuff in there, and ventoy will ignore that folder and it's content
@@vidhyachan6494 you can create a partition (with win gui its simple) or just use .ventoyignore file in folder
Me, who already uses Ventoy but is watching this all the way through to boost its popularity and teach the masses of its glory
Same
Ah. I meet another
Do you know how to make persistent images with that ??
@@AcidiFy574 Not really sure what this means, but if you mean keeping the ISOs permanently on your USB flash drive, then yes, you can just copy them into it and leave them on a folder on your USB flash drive & pick whichever you want. The ISOs won't go anywhere, unless you re-format your flash drive.
The important question is "Can you boot TempleOS from it?"
i looked down for this comment. i was not disappointed.
No
@@0x7f2c ventoy confirmed glow in the dark honeypot
Get them glowies
Yes, yes you can.
Tried it, of course, I don't have PS/2 but eh, I have the usb on MBR mode anyways
i've had mixed success when it comes to my Ventoy stick being detected by the machine but this project is no doubt going to be the future of OS installs for 99% of builders
For me whenever I booted a Windows iso from Ventoy, it worked, but corrupted the Ventoy partition so it did not work again untill reformating. Using LinuxISOs though worked without a problem for me.
@@PatrikKronThat is a very weird issue, probably related to your hardware (I'm guessing motherboard or faulty RAM) or USB drive, since I was able to boot WinPE and install Windows just fine.
Yes, Ventoy saved me big time, with its Secure Boot support. I had to reset a laptop to factory default with Windows from Linux. It required secure boot. Only Ventoy managed to create a valid Windows Boot Disk with Secure Boot enabled!
Damn ive never tried to set up secure boot with ventoy, i thought it was just experimental
@@radnukespeoplesminds Yes, it's officially an experimental feature but it worked great for me.
I just turn Secure Boot off. If I purchased a machine that didn't allow me to disable Secure Boot, then I would return it and get my money back. I won't use Microsoft-originated "features" that only exist to try to lock out non-Windows operating systems.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I had to reset the notebook to factory default to return it to the shop so I wanted it to be as I got it. ;-)
By the way, Secure Boot is now easily supported on Linux. You can provide your own key, if you like.
Secure Boot is "nice to have" (and I have it enabled with my own PK, KEK and db/dbx), however, for an Install from a Thumb-Stick that I do trust, I generally turn it off in UEFI for the moment.
Linux Mint will always hold a special place in my heart, as it was my first distro I ever used. I often wish I could recapture the excitement and wonder I felt the first time I used a desktop OS that wasn't Windows.
Every time I turn on a computer without Windows on it, there is absolute joy in my heart. Fortuanately, I have no Windows 8 or 10 at home (just a few VMs up to XP) and I use and support Linux at work. So every day for me is a good day, and I laugh heartily at people who have to endure their Microsoft abuser.
Currently in that experience, I'm still getting used to it yet I'm also in awe by all the options I have, i just hope it gets more mainstream
Coming at you from Mint.
I'm going to QEMU VM my current Win7 and run it from a Linux Mint (or possibly Manjaro), probably next week.
Since I'm mainly a gamer, I have to keep Windows for some stubborn games, but hope to port over most of the currently 200+ I have installed over to Linux.
It'll be quite the task, but I'm hopeful Wine and Proton will get the job done.
Looking forward to that fresh Linux feeling - hopefully my experience will be as good as yours apparently was.
@@DarkVeghetta tell me
I was literally thinking about something like this last week. I'm glad you answered a question I never verbally asked.
Even if you wouldnt need multiple ISO's, it seems this would be a great way to simplify setting up a USB stick for installing a new os, since it's drag and drop.
There's already Balaner Etcher for that, one of the most reliable pieces of software I've ever use d
I’ve been watching your videos every day for the past week and I enjoy listening to you just talking about stuff. You are very well-spoken and you talk about stuff I rarely see videos about.
Wish I had known about this last night. I was having a hell of a time trying to format Windows 10 install media under Linux - I've never done it before and it proved slightly more tricky than I anticipated. Now you're telling me I can just use Ventoy and keep a whole mess of images on one USB stick. Dude, this changes everything!
I think thats the first tool u reviewed that i already knew and i see that as an accomplishment on my side
Same for me !
Same
I am a technician and honest to God I have no idea how I performed my job without Ventoy. I loaded a spare 32GB USB drive the size of a fingernail full of my diagnostic tools and distros and Windows installer and HWIDGEN, and that permanently lives in my coin purse, not even in my toolbox. I always have it with me for a quick diagnostic.
I can’t relate to the technician part, but I keep my ventoy stick wherever I take my computer in case I can’t do a specific task with ChromeOS, or I just want to not be thrown into the IOS equivalent in the Computer world
Very minor grudge about Ventoy is that as of yet it does not have HaikuOS support.
Otherwise Ventoy is crazy cool, It's perfect if you want to get your friends/family into Linux, you can make them try a bunch of distros and it's also super powerful as a recovery/debugging/hardware testing tool.
Ventoy is amazing. An absolute must. You can keep your most important ISOs on there.
I store the ones I use to install OSs on hardware on a 16GB on a thumb drive, and Slax as a rescue ISO.
Love this utility, have been using it for about 6 months. In that time, I've needed it to restore mother in law's Windows 10 laptop, dual booted my system to Win 10 and ZorinOS 15/now 16. Please PLEASE do an in-depth on the plug-ins as there are very little resources for how to really use and personalize them correctly.
I found Ventoy quite a while back. It's amazing.
Medicat + Ventoy = Heaven for IT professionals.
I was using Ventoy by itself and could tackle installs and move files from burnt drives using a 128gb Samsung harddrive for months before getting medicat. I keep it on my Keychain and lock it up.
Please do a video on it!!
I literally JUST tried Ventoy to create a windows/linux dual boot drive and now you upload a video on it! So much simpler than YUMI or Rufus, just a copy/paste. With UEFI it just works.
You can theme the menu of Ventoy. The standard menu is rather plain. It uses a json file for that. You've to install a theme on the stick in a seperate folder though. I'm using Vimix on mine. 64GB key with 10 Linux distros and 1 windows (most people use it, don't ask me why) and 6 repair tools for any OS... an insane PC repair tool. I've been using Ventoy since OldTechBloke mentioned it and made a video about it. He showed how you can test it in a VM, great. It's a super tool. Nice videos you have, good job!! Love from Belgium. Just subscribed...
Nice video and W500, this is how we can recognize legitimate enthusiasts when they humbly show their proud gear in videos, including how useful they *still* are the current era. Well done, cheers mate and thanks for the video.
Finally a good multiboot program! All the ones I found either didn't work or required you to rewrite the entire USB anytime you wanted a new distro.
Thanx for the demonstration. I recently created my own Linux distribution, F3OS (short for the Free Family-Friendly Operating System, as it's a web content filtered distro), and earlier this week, I uploaded an edition with an alternate desktop environment (F3OS Original uses Xfce while F3OS Junior uses LXDE or Openbox). I could really use this tool in order to have access to both ISOs on the same USB drive.
this is so good. Thanks MO for the quality content for 1 whole year!
from that list my favourite distros are: TinyCore, Gentoo, void and arch
Huzzah TinyCore!
i use GENTOO BTW
@@mynamejeff2880 same here, i just likr saying that i use arch btw
i see a fellow arch user, i use arch btw
@@gemerization I don't use arch, I just like meming about it
Wow I wasn't expecting it to be THAT easy, very cool!
This is exactly what I've been searching for past few months, thanks!
Ventoy was a lifesaver
I dont have a bootable USB and used my phone to make one with it and saved my PC
I discovered this on Chris Titus channel a few months back. It's just an incredible tool.
I actually found this recently! Highly recommend, worked for me better than the alternatives
Solus is the first Linux distro in a long time that had me doing a double take. Beautiful environment.
Been using this for a few months. I love it and recommend it everyone.
I've been using ventoy for about 3 months now and its super useful.
Its also pretty neat that you can leave a set amount of space at the end of the disk, so i just use my external hard drive that i use to store stuff, so now its like a true swiss army knife to me
I have been using Ventoy the past days in succession and I can only say: God damn, I'm so happy, that this exists! I had to install Win10, Manjaro and EndeavourOS multiple times on my laptop (testing and preparation for final triple-boot in a VeraCrypt & LUKS encrypted environment). This tool saved me soooooo much trouble of reflashing etc. I also went so that my "daily driver" USB Stick (generall just a data USB stick) is a Ventoy-Stick: JUST IN CASE! Lovely stool!
i love my ventoy USB. been using it for about 2 years and it has been very usefull. 128GB filled to the brim of ISOs
This is exactly what I've been looking for for a long time. Thanks a lot man.
it's the first time I've heard of Ventoy and I must admit that it's pretty neat
My favourite distro on the Ventoy list is Parted Magic. This distro saved my ass too many times in the last 10 years.
Ventoy is amazing, been using it for a while now, it's especially useful when USB writers like balena or anything else can't figure out how to install obscure distros. With ventoy, it's just copy paste.
Ventoy has been feeding my distro hopping obsession for months now.
As soon as I found out about this I was amazed! Have a bunch of iso s on a thumb drive and still use it for regular data!!! Idk if there's a way to do it but this is an amazing setup. Have a bunch of recovery and disk utility os's. Windows Ubuntu desktop and server. About to put a backup of my server onto a thumb drive. If the HD fails I can just boot it up in minutes until I have time to fix it.
Bro thanks I needed this on a old computer for my nephew to run some games and it worked …was struggling a bit to find something
Batocera is what I am planning on using, as well as Win 11 Tiny, and then excited about other Linux variations! I like the swiss army knife concept!
Not only that, but you can still use it as a normal USB drive. You can put your normal files right next to your ISOs on the partition labeled "Ventoy", so there's no need to have separate flash drives for files and for OSes. You can even put the ISOs into a separate folder, and the system will still detect them.
If you do that, I recommend whitelisting a folder specifically for ventoy ISOs using Ventoy Plugson (basically a web front-end for editing the config file) or by editing/making /ventoy/ventoy.json. Because if you don't, ventoy has to scan every directory for ISOs when you boot it (which can take a while depending on the number of files/folders).
About damn time you made a video on Ventoy
I love Ventoy! Glad to see others enjoying it :)
Ventoy is a blessing. I tried it once, and damn! It's extremely easy to use.
The best part is you don't need to flash images again and again, you just can copy the ISO to the usb with cp command and that's it. No need to install ventoy in the live usb and flash the iso image. Sounds too good to be true but it is actually true this time.
@@nac9880 Oh yeah. That's an amazing feature. And ventoy gets installed into a separate partition (depending on GPT or MBR scheme). Now I simply carry around 6 linux distros since I'm a distro addict. 😂
My favorite distro is openSUSE. Love the geeko 🦎
Way more compatible than YUMI for me.
Rufus is great whenever I just need a single distro, but this old 32 GB USB key now has way more of a purpose compared to what it used to do.
It's just filled with rescue stuff because I'm a nerd who needs that whenever I tinker.
Several versions back this used to work fine for me, but newer versions have presented me with nothing but issues. Sometimes it won't even show up in Windows to let me edit the contents, sometimes the USB is write-protected and I can't delete ISO files, and it can be a pain in the ass to format it and get Windows to recognize the USB stick again. Not to mention compatibility issues between different machines, Legacy BIOS and UEFi, and even USB 2.x vs 3.x ports. I had used YUMI up until I found Ventoy but that also used to work fine and then started acting up one day. Multi-boot USB technology still has a way to go before we get a perfect solution. Loading single ISO files on to a USB stick with something like Rufus is still the only failsafe way of booting an ISO file across multiple different systems.
Yet another Ventoy addict; it definitely makes things easier.
I toss my iso files on my thumbdrive with Ventoy and throw my transferrable documents and pictures in a folder on the same drive - unbelievably convenient.
Ventoy and VirtualBox are a distro hopper's best friends.
Good vid.
My favorite distro is definitely Mii, I wish they were on the switch...
@Rlaziken don't forget the flat design, no personality, animations, no sounds/music just like all operating systems today 😞
I love how everything needs a web front end these days. That aside its a cool tool
Thank you, this will actually be extremely helpful.
I've been using this for the past two years. It's the best.
Hello also congrats on 100k Always have loved ur channel
Oh yeah I absolutely LOVE running ESET SysRescue and Lenovo BIOS Update. I run them all the time
ngl eset sysrescue is probably dank. but I haven't scoped out NOD32 in like a decade so maybe not.
It is a great tool to have , found it few months ago and it is realy irreplaceable, just it doesn't wanna work with garuda, idk if it is my pc or what, but everything else i tryed just works.
Been using ventoy for years now. It's great!!!
My favorite by far has to be Lenovo BIOS update!
No kidding that's so incredibly useful, might just use this next time
Thanks for telling me about this. Been using YUMI to make a big utility and installer USB the past couple of days but it is Windows only and thus certified boofware.
Debian will always be my favorite.
soystemd
@@zvezdan956 It's certainly a very flawed init system but it doesn't make that much difference to me.
@@DickTheBirthdayBoy it will when you get zero day'd
@@zvezdan956 I use windows as well so if its going to happen to me it'll be there
I use and love ventoy, but be careful with Windows 10. I was recovering a boot failure for a friend and Windows overwrote the partition of my USB that contained all of my ISO files. This includes, of course, the windows ISO I had booted from. System locked, reboot got back into ventoy with no ISOs installed. So just be careful with Windows.
@Chris I assure you I'm well experienced enough to know how to handle drives and know which one I'm using. You are correct, however, in the fact that the problem wasn't ventoy. I started the repair process and Windows reformatted that particular partition of my ventoy disk. Windows was the problem.
I discovered it some months ago while searching for something with persistence as a feature, you could add that in a future video. In the live arch iso (with persistence) I set up the wifi so I don't have to do all the times I want to mess with arch.
OMG. This will be useful soon! I knew there was a reason I followed! Right now I've only played with Ubuntu and Kali and am on Windows because of an ADD ON for FFXI from third parties (The windower) but wow.
Next time I want to boot into something that looks intriguing that's childsplay.
How do you save files or use persistent storage if all of your OSs are on an iOS? Do you save to a separate folder/directory in your boot drive? And I guess you can’t update the OS through auto-updates either right?
What settings would you recommend for maximum compatibility? So it works everywhere (Or at least at most hardware, including older computers).
Oh yeah i've been using this for years now. It's great!
There are some incompadibilities ngl especially with UEFI, for example OpenBSD works but you can't install the sets from local storage you have to use the network
Very nice tool. I test it all on 64gb usb stick with Ubuntu, pop os and Linux mint. All works as live os with persistent image file. Windows 10 setup works also and sergei strelec win pe iso.
Thanks for this! It was exactly what I was looking for.
Interesting vid. I need to get a 64bit usb before I set this up. All the best 👍.
I was wondering if there was a windows multiboot tool. Thanks for showing this. I already have my computers all set up, but If I ever need linux again, I have options.
I like manjaro,algorithm!
just installed it btw, with the KDE environment and man you can make it soooo much prettier than macOS
My list of favorite distros (from the list): Pop, Arch, Fedora, and Void.
and mint
Any way i can boot Ventoy in VirtualBox with an attached usb 3.0 (i tried using PlopKexec iso as bootloader but it doesn't detect ventoy partitions)
was literally looking at this last night for my external harddrive
With Ventoy I don't need to use Rufus or Yumi or other tools even to install windows or Linux in UEFI mode GPT style. It just work. My favourite distro is Arch
What I like the most is that you can flash your USB with Ventoy, forget about it and still use it as a normal USB drive. It's just a 32mb partition you don't even notice it's there.
Has some really cool themes too
how would you add themes onto ventoy? thats the only thing i cant figure out where i went wrong
i drag and drop to the main folder or to the Ventoy folder inside of the main folder?
ALPINE!!!!! I love the extreme minimalism, glad its supported!!! ik its not a desktop OS but I still love it anyways and will use it any way I want lmao
Am I able to:(skip privacy questions, remove MS account requirement, & remove 4GB+ RAM requirement) like I can with Rufus?
I want to make a boot drive for multiple versions of windows.
i get a bunch of wierd errors in many isos:
No bootfile found for UEFI!
Maybe the image does not support ia32 UEFI
Ventoy is awesome, i can have my rescue disk and various distros on one usb. Saved my ass many times
< Friendship ended with Rufus, Ventoy is my new friend. >
Just when you stop thinking about distro hopping this absolute gem of a software comes out..
.. actually I love both but Ventoy is so OP it does not even compare! (but I don't want the Polished Rufus to die if this takes off)
When they said 2021 was the year of Linux gaming THIS is what they really referred to.
My 2021 Laptop is running Arch (Endeavor) btw but Linux Mint, Artix , Puppy & criminally deprecated Parabola have a special place in my heart for different reasons so I'm curious to check on them yearly.
Puppy saved my netcafe sessions during travel, Mint consolidated my desire to quit windows permanently but I couldnt before because of Ph / Vegas / Gaming.
- Artix / Parabola / LARBS would be my daily if I knew how to use command line and be comfy to ditch soystemd if it doesn't affect my multitasking + media creating workflow.
So does ventoy have to be installed on the PC prior to booting a ventoy USB..?
This tool it's really awesome. Thank your for sharing!
Lenovo Diagnostics is my favorite distro in the list. I just know it'll be the next Ubuntu in a few years.
Haven't been able to install any ISO with Ventoy on my systems (mostly HP laptops). Select ISO and get a blank screen with flashing cursor. Internet searches have not found a solution.
Tried it a few months ago and both EndeavourOS and Arco both failed starting after the bootloader for some reason
Artix FTW, my favorite distro so far
Pretty useful, thank you =)
Has anyone tried installing yuno host with this? Im pretty sure its forcing its installation to install onto the memory card that its located on, which then bricks the card until you can rerun the ventoy installer on it
Dang. Can't wait to try that bad boy on my 16 gb thumb drives I almost never use.
Is the Ventoy code vetted by some security people? *alu cap on* I'm somewhat cautious when fiddling with boot toys written by Chinese devs.
I've tried some other multiboot tools in the past and they've never worked right. (I remember manjaro being the most annoying one to get right). Gonna give this tool a try. Hope it works
Manjaro is an awesome one though still needs some community love... after that opensuse or fedora... void linux is also an interesting choice
I fucked up a USB trying to do myself exactly what this application does. I'm gonna be using this software from now on