Long story short, with Ventoy, you can boot into different versions of Windows or/and different Linux distributions FROM THE SAME USB DEVICE, and without having to format the disk over and over.

This not only means that it's faster, but it also means that you can place multiple ISO images on the USB device.

Ventoy is special in this regard, since it basically puts the ISO images on the drive, without having to extract them. While typical apps for creating bootable USD devices (usually using ISO images) work by extracting the contents first. To answer your question, you should be interested in checking out Ventoy because it's different from other apps of this sort. It's called Ventoy, it's totally free, open-source, and it's capable of running on most Linux distributions and Windows alike. Ventoy-1.0.93-livecd.If we were to tell you that there's a new tool for creating bootable USB drives that's worth checking out, you would most probably be asking yourself the following question: 'why would I be interested since there already are many popular and well-established apps for this particular task such as Rufus, or balenaEtcher?'įair question, however, before anything else, let's meet the app in question. Ventoy is an open source software under GPLv3 license.īut Ventoy project need to pay for the server hosting, domain name, bandwidth, many USB sticks for test, large capacity of HDD (for downloading ISO files) and so on.įor the better and sustainable development of Ventoy, I provide the subscription service. X86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI and ARM64 UEFI mode supportedġ10+ common types of OS supported (Windows/WinPE/Linux/VMware) IVentoy is an enhanced version of the PXE server. Wana boot and install OS through network (PXE)? Welcome to my new project iVentoy. Correct EFI chainloader image device path.Fix a bug that if you plug-out the USB drive during installation, Ventoy will be probabilistically installed to other disk.Support unattended auto install for Deepin/UOS.Fix the boot issue for Fedora/CentOS when file name contains special character.

For mac instal Ventoy 1.0.93