Ventoy 1.0.16

Size: 6.02MB

Ventoy is an Open Source tool to create a bootable USB drive for ISO files.

With Ventoy, you will not need to format the disk over and over again; you just need to copy the ISO file to the USB drive and boot it.

You will also be able to copy many ISO files at a time, and Ventoy will provide you with a boot menu from which to select them. Both Legacy BIOS and UEFI are supported in the same way. 160+ ISO files have been tested and compiled in an easily accessible list.  A "Ventoy Compatible" concept is introduced by Ventoy, which can help to support any ISO file.
 

Ventoy is a lightweight tool that provides a quick way to make bootable USB drives from ISO files. Reinstalling your operating system via a bootable USB comes with the advantage that you do not need to spend time formatting the disk. Instead, you simply insert the USB in the dedicated port and reboot your PC.While there are numerous tools that create bootable USB, most of them rely on the OS's kernel which needs to access the hardware storage media for the source. The idea behind the program is different and entails that the information is saved to runtime memory before booting. Therefore, the OS can determine that the data is booted from a virtual disk, find the source medium needed for the operation and continue to boot without having to create the standard hook, as with the classic booting.

Ventoy is a tool to create bootable USB media. What separates it from other solutions of its kind is that it uses ISO images for that instead of extracted files. Another difference to most solutions is that it supports multiple ISO images that you can put on the same USB device. The program detects these and displays a boot menu when the computer is started so that users may pick one of the available operating systems or tool discs during the process.

Ventoy 1.0.15 adds support for GPT partitions to the program. The developer published a support article that provides details on the differences between MBR and GPT in Ventoy. Basically, the core differences are:

• MBR is better when it comes to legacy BIOS support.
• GPT is better when it comes to UEFI support.
• GPT supports disk with 2 TB and more.
• GPT's maximum partition number is 128, MBR's is 4.

Ventoy users may switch the partition style with a click on Option > Partition Style and the selection of MBR or GPT in the menu.

It is worth mentioning that the tool allows you to add as many ISO files as you want, case in which, you are welcomed by a menu following the boot. The program supports ISO files over 4 GB as well native UEFI and Legacy BIOS and it works with dozens of operating systems, as the developer states there have been more than 160 files tested.

Features:
Simple to use
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
"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

Whats New:

Homepage: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy

Download:  https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases/download/v1.0.16/ventoy-1.0.16-windows.zip

Wimboot Pugin: https://github.com/ventoy/wimiso/releases/download/v1.0/ventoy_wimboot.img

Plugin Web: https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_wimboot.html

*** Ventoy use this plugin to boot WIM files (Legacy BIOS + UEFI).