This tool is responsible for creating bootable USB drives from ISO files. For this, it offers a compatibility with 475 operating systems, including Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, as well as the most popular Linux distributions. This means that we can store different operating systems, depending on the storage of our USB drive and we can use them to install them on any computer. It offers us the possibility to convert any USB stick into a multi-start system. The actual installation then takes place for each USB stick.Ventoy is a free, lightweight, and portable program that has a very clear and concise mission statement. The Windows version comes as a ZIP archive, which you only have to unpack. Ventoy is available in versions for Windows and Linux. Particularly interesting for the installation of Windows is the option to control setup execution via an answer file. In addition to ISO images, which can be larger than 4 GB, this tool also supports images in the WIM, IMG, and EFI formats. This mode ensures that the entire ISO is first loaded into memory and then started.Īccording to the project's homepage, Ventoy has been tested with more than 470 ISO files to date. In this case, Ventoy offers Memdisk mode, which is activated with the F1 key. On BIOS computers, it might happen that an operating system cannot be started directly from the ISO. You can also store any other file type on this partition for normal use of the USB stick. The OS can then be installed on an internal drive as needed.

In this way, admins can, for example, store different Linux distributions, Windows PE, or ESXi on a single memory stick and boot the OS they need from there. Ventoy presents a boot menu with the ISO images copied to the second partition

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