

You can copy several ISO files at a time, and Ventoy will offer a boot menu. Now there’s no need to format the disk again and again or to extract anything- with Ventoy simply copy the ISO file to the USB drive and boot it.

I think it will be a very handy backup tool. Ventoy is an open source tool that lets you create a bootable USB drive for ISO files. To some degree, I am thinking that Ventoy resembles TeraByte BootIt UEFI. The other partition is an EFI System Partition which runs Ventoy. That is the partition that you will see in your file manager and where you copy and manage your disk images. You can easily update Ventoy by clicking the Update button.īy default, the 1st partition is formatted with exFAT file system, but you can also reformat it manually to NTFS/FAT32/UDF/XFS/Ext2/3/4. Here is a before and after of the MBR partitons on your UFD. The way it works is it creates two partitions on your UFD. Once you have created your Ventoy UFD, you simply copy your ISO disk images there and when you boot the Ventoy UFD, you are presented with a menu of all your disk images.Ĭheck out all the screenshots of various different boot images booting here.Īnd it can support both UEFI and Legacy BIOS at the same time. This is not a criticism of the VenToy software, which does appear to offer a very interesting option for directly/regularly testing new ISOs without any of the pre-processing other solutions need and it's something I might well use on a dedicated external USB SSD/Hard Drive, but probably not on a 'Thumb Drive'.Ventoy is a new free portable bootable UFD solution for managing multiple disk images and creating a multi-boot UFD. once VenToy has been used to create the dedicated usb drive it's no longer needed which is totally different to Rufus and other similar apps, which do have to be regularly used to process any new iso images.

Development Build netboot Latest + 2 releases Sponsor this project. I didn't intend to imply it couldn't be used (with care) via the PortableApps Platform - That was poorly worded by me, but my personal view is that there is little purpose in devoting the scarce and valuable development time needed to creating and maintaining a PortableApps version of any app that is already natively portable and which is unlikely to be needed regularly, i.e. No description, website, or topics provided. Because, by the Developer's own description, the primary purpose of this app is solely to set up a dedicated USB Drive (which which includes complete erasure and repartitioning of that Drive), after which the software on that drive is self-updating and any ISOs are managed by the user manually copying to the appropriate partition.
