Ventoy is a software to create bootable USB for ISO, WIM, IMG, EFI files without reformatting and supports Multiple ISO Images. If you are one of those people who often create bootable USBs using third-party software on Windows, usually your USB drive must be formatted first so that it can be used as a bootable device to install the operating system on computers and laptops.
The problem that arises when we want to use the USB flash drive was to create a bootable USB for another operating system. For example, our Flash Disk has become bootable Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla, then we want to make Windows 10 bootable. What most users do is reformat and then make it again.
There's really nothing wrong with that. But we don't think it's practical, because it's a waste of your time. That's why we need to create a multiboot USB to accommodate more operating systems in one USB drive.
Besides this software being open source, one of the other advantages of Ventoy is that it can multiboot (can be a combination of Windows and Linux) easily, because users only need to put the ISO file into a bootable flash disk without the need to extract the contents of the ISO.
In general, you should format the FD to make it available to other ISO files from the operating system. The advantage of this software is that you don't need to format the flash drive, whether you want to create a multiboot flash drive with 2, 3, even 4 operating system ISO files.
Before starting, make sure you have all the operating system ISO files on your computer first. And also filenames or paths must not contain spaces or non-ASCII characters. Ventoy will only initialize the media (flashdisk), and format it to be bootable, the process is very fast. Otherwise, the FD will still be accessible and readable, and users only need to enter the desired ISO files.
When booting from USB / flash, this application will automatically read the ISO file and present it in a menu of options to run. In fact, we can use the remaining flash disk space as a place to store other files that you have.
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- License: Freeware
- Developer: LongPanda
- Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11