Ventoy
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files.
- Free • Open Source
- Bootable USB Creator
- Windows
- Linux
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What is Ventoy?
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it. You can copy many iso files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them (screenshot). Both Legacy BIOS and UEFI are supported in the same way. 200+ ISO files are tested (list).
A "Ventoy Compatible" concept is introduced by ventoy, which can help to support any ISO file.
- 100% open source (license)
- Simple to use (Get started)
- Fast (limited only by the speed of copying iso file)
- Directly boot from iso file, no extraction needed
- Legacy + UEFI supported in the same way
- UEFI Secure Boot supported (since 1.0.07+) Notes
- ISO files larger than 4GB supported
- Native boot menu style for Legacy & UEFI
- Most type of OS supported, 200+ iso files tested
- Not only boot but also complete installation process
- ISO files can be listed in List mode/TreeView mode Notes
- "Ventoy Compatible" concept
- Plugin Framework
- Readonly to USB drive during boot
- USB normal use unafftected
- Data nondestructive during version upgrade
- No need to update Ventoy when a new distro is released
https://gitee.com/longpanda/Ventoy.git
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy.git
A "Ventoy Compatible" concept is introduced by ventoy, which can help to support any ISO file.
- 100% open source (license)
- Simple to use (Get started)
- Fast (limited only by the speed of copying iso file)
- Directly boot from iso file, no extraction needed
- Legacy + UEFI supported in the same way
- UEFI Secure Boot supported (since 1.0.07+) Notes
- ISO files larger than 4GB supported
- Native boot menu style for Legacy & UEFI
- Most type of OS supported, 200+ iso files tested
- Not only boot but also complete installation process
- ISO files can be listed in List mode/TreeView mode Notes
- "Ventoy Compatible" concept
- Plugin Framework
- Readonly to USB drive during boot
- USB normal use unafftected
- Data nondestructive during version upgrade
- No need to update Ventoy when a new distro is released
https://gitee.com/longpanda/Ventoy.git
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy.git
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Categories
OS & Utilities • CD/DVD ToolsTags
- iso
- os-and-utilities
- usb-booting
- usb-booter
- usb-boot
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Best free system maintenance utilities for Windows 10 - October 2021 • Windows Software ListVentoy
Summary
Our users have written 23 comments and reviews about Ventoy, and it has gotten 129 likes
- Developed by admin@ventoy.net
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 5
- 35 alternatives listed
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This software is very handy ! No more need to redo your key again and again to install a single ISO in Legacy OR UEFI: Install Ventoy on the USB stick once and copy all the ISO's you want in it (Operating systems, diagnostic tools and so on...) The extra feature is that the software formats the USB Flash Drive for both UEFI and Legacy boot menus.
The ease of use is perfect! No more hassle to convert an image, just drop in on your thumbdrive and reboot, pick the image to boot and you're on your way. Even easier than rufus imho
amazing! almost magical!
makes the thumbdrive dynamically bootable. very practical.
Easy and Fast !
Format the key only once and from that moment you can drag as many files and isos as you want!
You can update the key without having to reformat it and in a few moments!
There is no simpler and more powerful system!
I think it's the best multiboot tool out there...
Ventoy is simply the best software to create bootable multiboot systems. Perfect.
This is probably the most simple multiboot, if not in general boot usb creator out there. It takes a second to be installed on your usb thumb drive/hdd and then you just have to copy the iso files you want in the usb.
I am amazed that this is not way more known and popular.
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By now I have used it on a handful machines, be it new or old and with an exception of a single old machine that did not like grub2 boot, which I fixed by disabling it recognizing usb mass storage in the bios and then using Ventoy through PLoP Boot manager, Ventoy has worked flawlesly!
I have it installed on my small 256GB SSD, which is packed with different WinPEs, Live Linux Systems and OS installation ISOs and it is great, cause it can also be used mass storage, without the need to make an extra partition on it. It is even very tidy, as I have all the ISOs arranged in different folders depending what they are, since Ventoy jsut reads the whole storage and sees what ISO files there are in it, not caring about the structure of the folders. Definitely love this =D
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• Edited 5 months ago