Just select the operating system that you want to boot and wait for the boot process to complete.

Ventoy will pick these up automatically when you boot it to provide you with a selection menu. Once the initial installation has been done, place ISO images on the partition. The application creates a FAT and an exFAT partition on the device. Ventoy formats the entire disk and erase all content on it but warns about it.

Not that Windows may throw a Smartscreen warning when you execute it.Īll it takes then is to select an USB device using the device selector at the top and to hit the Update button to start the process. Just download the application archive from the developer website and extract it. Carrying around lots of USB sticks would be bulky, but somehow I expect it to be more reliable than Ventoy - my experience with the Zalman ZM-VE350 has never been reliable enough to replace an external CD drive.Installation is pretty straightforward on Windows. I wish there were a bundle pack of USB drives with installers for all Windows and Mac OS versions, so I could just pick out the right installer and install. As for why you'd want various Linux distros, I imagine it's a similar platform-sensitivity issue. Some only boot Win10, others only Win7 (圆4 or x32), and the oldest only XP. I regularly find old laptops in the trash, and friends like it very much when I repair them and give them away. The laptop has a 2 TB drive, and a lot of legacy software just in case I need to open some obscure file (e.g. It's been useful to boot into WinXP to play AoE or WoW, or Mac OS 10.9 to run p0sixspwn to jailbreak an iPhone 4S.

Ventoy boots to grub