I'm actually in the process of distro hopping right now actually. I have multiple ISOs on it and adding Manjaro was very easy. Very much recommended using it.
I didn't even know it had a GUI installer, LOL. I always just used the terminal command to create the drive. I can't recommend it enough. It doesn't work with everything, but seems to work with all the popular distros I tested and Windows. The best part is not having to re-write a disc when you want change versions.
Everyone learns at their own pace. I out grew Ventoy as soon as it failed to boot on legacy bios on old hardware for a small Linux distro I am an Easy 2 Boot flash boot drive fan now
@@chasonsnotes Actually I ran into that issue too when trying to setup a TV computer with old part I had laying around. It didn't click with me that the issue was Ventoy its self. I will have to check out Easy 2 Boot, thanks.
@@iiwi758 LOL, Ironically I never did try Easy 2 Boot as it was just one older computer I had issues with. I still use Ventoy, but now I use the GUI installer.
This is absolutely awesome, most USB sticks are 16GB plus and I always "needed" more than one for each OS I wanted meaning GB of potential space on each drive just got wasted. This is one of those genuinely useful utilities that lets me use all the space on one drive freeing all my other USB sticks for backing up without me needing to go and buy new ones..
That is so cool! I am so happy you shared this. This little gem is a game changer for me. I love products and services that make life more simple and portable. I find your videos so helpful and informative. Keep up the great work.
Just noticed Ventoy works OK for most ISOs. Been distro hopping alot more than usual. Calam Installer for Arch ISO for example only works using Rufus/Etcher, not Ventoy. So anyone who comes across an ISO not booting then grab another USB drive to do it using Rufus/Etcher or another dedicated USB bootable creator as a test.
Ventoy sure is on helluva tool, a very powerful one. as the computer tech of the family and friends, having a thumb drive ready to go with all the tools and OSs to do formatting and cleaning is great. A small plus to the Ventoy experience is that you can spice up the looks of it with GRUB themes made for Ventoy.
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I have 3x the same USB stick as on movie photo. Cheap but works well. Thanks for all your videos. You have inspired me to try Linux as 2nd operating system and already using o on USB stick.
I was trying to get a live usb to work for the last 3 days, I tried unetbootin dd etcher and they all didn't work I finally found out about ventoy and it worked perfectly first time and just after I finally boot into my live system you released this video what crazy timing eh?
For some reason, Ventoy was the only option for me as a Windows user to make a bootable Manjaro USB stick. I have used Rufus for everything else before that. Now it's not a problem, I can use dd on Manjaro for Manjaro, lol.
One great thing is that we can reformat the exfat parition to fat32 and with iso's, persoanl and other files can be kept there too, which would just not appear in menu of ventoy
I use Ventoy for work it's really good and easy to use. I have a Zalman which does the same but you have to reformat it if you want to add iso which isn't fun when you have 500+Gb of data to transfer!
For anyone having issues, with it crashing in the installation faze, just format your whole stick for it to be one partition essentially, and then try again ;)
I'd recommend making a ventoy USB on windows. If you make one on Linux, you can't see the contents properly when using windows. Making it on windows will allow you to see its content on both the systems.
Great video! I'm currently trying to learn Linux and this is going to come in handy. When jumping from distro to distro is it doing a clean install every time or does it hold the data on the each one? So say if I go from Windows to Linux then back to Windows would I start fresh each time? Also when jumping back to windows will it recognize my product key?
That looks interesting, unless I missed it I guess they are all Live Inages so no persistant storage. That was a very fast boot up for Manjaro, did you speed it up or is it a very fast ssd in the laptop?
Ventoy allows for some distros to have persistent storage but it looks very difficult to set up. If you use Windows (or maybe a VM of Windows), you can use Rufus - which makes setting up persistence extremely easy. It is the only one that can, I think. But, that mean many flash drives instead of one Ventoy flash drive.
I need this. I installed Linux Mint on a USB and it worked fine. Then I removed the USB and tried to boot to my hard drive and… I have no idea what was written on it but it won’t boot now. I was in a rush so I switched to my Mac and set my Windows 11 machine aside. I’ll look at it further later this week. If anyone has encountered this, give me a shout.
Ventoy + Apple Hardware = Not a good time Also, if you are moving a lot of files, make sure to sync the device at the command line to make sure that the USB is fully written before removing it. Learned that one the hard way.
In Windows, using Ventoy and MobaLiveCD even could run/boot ISOs that USB drive has inside directly in Windows, similar as use a Virtual Machine software like VirtualBox or VMWare, but without install the distros. Would be nice to know how to do that in Linux.
Have you tried this with any rescue disks isos as well? i.e. The Windows one or the boot-rescue for grub problems? Would be really cool if you can keep them on there too
I love your technique in getting multiple bootable .iso files onto a single USB key. Forgive my ignorance as I am a newbee at the virtual machine "stuff" and I know I may be shooting in the dark for help but here goes… I am using a 27" iMac (2020) that came with Catalina (64 bit) pre-installed and I am also dual booting into Windows 10 via Bootcamp. I am trying to get Mojave (32 bit) installed into my iMac somehow as an extra partition as a local installation to triple boot. I have 32 bit macOS software that I need to use and I already tried Parallels Desktop for Mac but it keeps on crashing the software and very “laggy”, not smooth. I also tried Virtual Box but is was also very laggy and was unable to understand how to set up file sharing with my “Host”. I also tried installing Ubuntu but for some reason I was unsuccessful but willing to try again. I also created a bootable USB key of Manjaro and was able to boot into it but got stuck not knowing what to do within in. I don't know much about Terminal but I can obviously follow instructions on what command lines to paste. Would you know what Terminal script would work to get Mojave installed into my iMac? Any feedback is appreciated.
I'd be extremely grateful if you respond. I noticed you using Fedora with KDE. I plan on using Fedora, is the Wayland session buggy, is it working fine? Do I need to switch to x11?
Ventoy is pretty neat. My only concern is that the operating systems installed from it boot in MBR mode. Having the option to boot from the .efi file of your choice on UEFI systems is a life saver when your grub loader inevitably gets messed up. If you've installed using Ventoy, fixing it becomes a bit more complicated.
The way it works for me is in the boot menu, if I pick the stick that has UEFI in front of it, the distro I install uses the UEFI method to install, and if I pick the one without UEFI, the distro installs the MBR way.
@@peteruk8 Looks like the Linux CLI installer can be set to use GPT using -g as an argument. I might have missed that when I created it. I reinstalled Ventoy, hopefully that will cause the installs made from it to use UEFI mode as well.
@@TruckFarmer Not sure if I understand. You get a choice between MBR and GPT bootloaders when you boot from your Ventoy stick? Or you have one USB stick for each?
@@justsomeguy5103 "Since Ventoy-1.0.15, you can install Ventoy with GPT partition style ..." Check Ventoy's site. It will give you a guide. I just search up "ventoy GPT" to get this info.
@3:40 can anyone else hear the stereo thumping in the background? It's so low, it sounds like it's out in my own street. I had no idea these cheap headphones could reproduce such frequencies!
The only issue with Ventoy now is that it doesn't support Secure Boot. So if you want to install Windows with that enabled for whatever reason it won't work. Let's stick with their OS flashing tool and that's it. Anyway, Ventoy rocks!
@TechHut ok great info but have a question am a windows user and wanna try linux i want dual boot windows 11 and kde neon ,2 separate ssd but in uefi bios secure boot is on ,fast boot is on, is it possible?
Warning: Ventoy's hardware compatibility is not that good. Some computers simply refuse to even boot Ventoy itself. Even then, your ISOs might not be booted correctly, or your setup environment may not read files. So if you're an IT manager or some sort and you have problems, write the ISO the traditional way. If you're only gonna use it on your own PC, go ahead.
It could be that you ran it on a UEFI computer, and bios won't allow you to change to a mixed mode, that is "legacy/uefi". If you then try to run for example old versions of PartedMagic from the stick, which I have tried, it won't work. There are probably a bunch of older Linux systems which won't boot in such a singular uefi-environment.
A while ago, i wanted to install windows alongside manjaro kde, so i tried to fo it.... but the only time i was able yo success is when i got gnome-boxes with windows and then i used rufus on it and it worked...
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What was the storage size of the USB drive?
For installing on arch I typed 'paru ventoy' and picked the version, done.
I'm actually in the process of distro hopping right now actually. I have multiple ISOs on it and adding Manjaro was very easy. Very much recommended using it.
I didn't even know it had a GUI installer, LOL. I always just used the terminal command to create the drive. I can't recommend it enough. It doesn't work with everything, but seems to work with all the popular distros I tested and Windows. The best part is not having to re-write a disc when you want change versions.
Everyone learns at their own pace.
I out grew Ventoy as soon as it failed to boot on legacy bios on old hardware for a small Linux distro
I am an Easy 2 Boot flash boot drive fan now
@@chasonsnotes Actually I ran into that issue too when trying to setup a TV computer with old part I had laying around. It didn't click with me that the issue was Ventoy its self. I will have to check out Easy 2 Boot, thanks.
@@chasonsnotes I used Ventoy in 4 different computers. After that none of them could boot. I also use Easy 2 boot, too with no problems ever since.
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@@iiwi758 LOL, Ironically I never did try Easy 2 Boot as it was just one older computer I had issues with. I still use Ventoy, but now I use the GUI installer.
You have earned the 1-lifetime subscriber because of this video.
I was literally searching for this today and booom you just uploaded!
Wow awesome tool! I am always flashing new distros to my usb drive. Thanks TechHut!
This is absolutely awesome, most USB sticks are 16GB plus and I always "needed" more than one for each OS I wanted meaning GB of potential space on each drive just got wasted. This is one of those genuinely useful utilities that lets me use all the space on one drive freeing all my other USB sticks for backing up without me needing to go and buy new ones..
I owe you my friend, this is one of the most useful tool I ever heard of ... already copying all my isos to _ONE_ usb key :D :D
AMAZING tool. Kudos to the team supporting this incredible piece of software
As a distro hopper this software is pretty much helping, thanks!
That is so cool! I am so happy you shared this. This little gem is a game changer for me. I love products and services that make life more simple and portable. I find your videos so helpful and informative. Keep up the great work.
Just noticed Ventoy works OK for most ISOs. Been distro hopping alot more than usual. Calam Installer for Arch ISO for example only works using Rufus/Etcher, not Ventoy. So anyone who comes across an ISO not booting then grab another USB drive to do it using Rufus/Etcher or another dedicated USB bootable creator as a test.
Ventoy sure is on helluva tool, a very powerful one.
as the computer tech of the family and friends, having a thumb drive ready to go with all the tools and OSs to do formatting and cleaning is great. A small plus to the Ventoy experience is that you can spice up the looks of it with GRUB themes made for Ventoy.
#JOEBIDEN could say "no, of course your root password is safe with my trusted technicians in the cloud, on the Internet", but he won't until he smells your hair🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
You are a saint! Thank you for this video, and thank you to the people that made Ventoy!
like that cornuta at 44 seconds type of saintan
I have 3x the same USB stick as on movie photo. Cheap but works well. Thanks for all your videos. You have inspired me to try Linux as 2nd operating system and already using o on USB stick.
Many many thanks for this very useful tool. I have several distributions for different purposes and now I can have them all on a single usb disk :)
Just used it today for the first time... From Linux... And it works
Been using ventoy since June 2021, best tool ever.
A whole TWO months...!? You're the man. 😄
@@pekkaastrom7346 Thanks
This thing is wild HUGE time saver
Ventoy is awesome that’s what I have been using for quite some time to install any os I use
Another great use is I have all my rescue utilities on there like Gparted and Memtest etc. Ventoy will run those ISOs as well!
I was trying to get a live usb to work for the last 3 days, I tried unetbootin dd etcher and they all didn't work I finally found out about ventoy and it worked perfectly first time and just after I finally boot into my live system you released this video
what crazy timing eh?
This is the new way I will do things!! Thank you so much for the video!
This is exactly what I need all the time. Thank u so much
Chu Dang Phu: Ventoy is dead
Like a lot of UA-camr in 2021: *Ventoy still alive*
For some reason, Ventoy was the only option for me as a Windows user to make a bootable Manjaro USB stick. I have used Rufus for everything else before that. Now it's not a problem, I can use dd on Manjaro for Manjaro, lol.
Have u try WSL2 to run dd command in Windows?
@@fauzanfsa nope. But Ventoy is still one of the better options, because it is so quick and easy to put multiple .iso files on the same flash drive.
cool video, ive heard about this tool but never got to it : thanks for the indeep video !!!
This is anamazing tool. Didn't know about this. Thanks!
This the fix I have been looking for great video.
Thanks a bunch for sharing such a handy tool for distro hopping, it rocks!
One great thing is that we can reformat the exfat parition to fat32 and with iso's, persoanl and other files can be kept there too, which would just not appear in menu of ventoy
Incredibly useful tool. Thanks for this video!
Thanks. I love multi booting!
Hope I can get it down, going to have to watch many times, I;m sure.
hey dude, i had bigh problems with getting from linux to windows, thank to your amazing tutorial. ♥
now we can distro hopping more easy and faster
Just what i needed. Thank you.
Wish 'had known it earlier! Thanks buddy❤️
Sr. You are a Life Saver! Thanks and I appreciate your work. 💯
I use Ventoy for work it's really good and easy to use.
I have a Zalman which does the same but you have to reformat it if you want to add iso which isn't fun when you have 500+Gb of data to transfer!
Thanks for Sharing, this works like Magic!
Great tip my friend. Hadn't heard of this one
Man, you made my day. Thanks so much!
Brilliant! Will come in very handy. 👍
For anyone having issues, with it crashing in the installation faze, just format your whole stick for it to be one partition essentially, and then try again ;)
This video is a God sent😳😍
Thank you for all your work! Your channel is awesome!
Web access can't be reached, on any computer I've tried. Seems like an overly complex way of doing it, just to prove they can?
"but, I do not so let's not do that" with regards to windows is so funny ahahhaahhahha
Nice information instantly subscribed
Thank you for making this video
What about storing files, can you boot an ISO, create files, go online and download data onto the drive?
Controlling Ventoy with web gui on Linux is just fun :)
I'd recommend making a ventoy USB on windows. If you make one on Linux, you can't see the contents properly when using windows. Making it on windows will allow you to see its content on both the systems.
Is that some kind of bug?
@@Noobmaster_x69 Not sure. But when I tested it, this was the result.
...and Ventoy can reserve space at end of USB, to make fat32 so your phone can see it, copy stuff over with a live CD, and reboot.
Question?????????
Will I need to install the operating system every time time you boot up? Or will it start at the full install?
I was expecting a persistent full blown OS installation on a portable USB drive. Can you make a tutorial on that?
Omg yes. Now I've got a reason to have my USB stick always with me. :D
Mannn, you changed my life)))) Thanks!
Great video! I'm currently trying to learn Linux and this is going to come in handy. When jumping from distro to distro is it doing a clean install every time or does it hold the data on the each one? So say if I go from Windows to Linux then back to Windows would I start fresh each time? Also when jumping back to windows will it recognize my product key?
That looks interesting, unless I missed it I guess they are all Live Inages so no persistant storage. That was a very fast boot up for Manjaro, did you speed it up or is it a very fast ssd in the laptop?
Ventoy allows for some distros to have persistent storage but it looks very difficult to set up. If you use Windows (or maybe a VM of Windows), you can use Rufus - which makes setting up persistence extremely easy. It is the only one that can, I think. But, that mean many flash drives instead of one Ventoy flash drive.
Very useful tool. Thank you for sharing such amazing info 😄
I need this. I installed Linux Mint on a USB and it worked fine. Then I removed the USB and tried to boot to my hard drive and… I have no idea what was written on it but it won’t boot now. I was in a rush so I switched to my Mac and set my Windows 11 machine aside. I’ll look at it further later this week. If anyone has encountered this, give me a shout.
Super super super.... Thank you. I'll give it a try....
Ventoy + Apple Hardware = Not a good time
Also, if you are moving a lot of files, make sure to sync the device at the command line to make sure that the USB is fully written before removing it. Learned that one the hard way.
In Windows, using Ventoy and MobaLiveCD even could run/boot ISOs that USB drive has inside directly in Windows, similar as use a Virtual Machine software like VirtualBox or VMWare, but without install the distros. Would be nice to know how to do that in Linux.
so do you just install onto your SSD when you want to run a specific distro?
That seems very fast boot for live cd. I previously used YUMI for make multi boots, but later switch to Balena Ether for the speed of the live cd.
Have you tried this with any rescue disks isos as well? i.e. The Windows one or the boot-rescue for grub problems? Would be really cool if you can keep them on there too
Great job, but can you actually install those distros and win11 on the same hdd drive?
How does this compare to the YUMI tool? Haven't heard of this tool until now, but I've been using YUMI for my multiboot needs.
Amazing! Thank you so much!
I love your technique in getting multiple bootable .iso files onto a single USB key. Forgive my ignorance as I am a newbee at the virtual machine "stuff" and I know I may be shooting in the dark for help but here goes… I am using a 27" iMac (2020) that came with Catalina (64 bit) pre-installed and I am also dual booting into Windows 10 via Bootcamp. I am trying to get Mojave (32 bit) installed into my iMac somehow as an extra partition as a local installation to triple boot. I have 32 bit macOS software that I need to use and I already tried Parallels Desktop for Mac but it keeps on crashing the software and very “laggy”, not smooth. I also tried Virtual Box but is was also very laggy and was unable to understand how to set up file sharing with my “Host”. I also tried installing Ubuntu but for some reason I was unsuccessful but willing to try again. I also created a bootable USB key of Manjaro and was able to boot into it but got stuck not knowing what to do within in. I don't know much about Terminal but I can obviously follow instructions on what command lines to paste. Would you know what Terminal script would work to get Mojave installed into my iMac? Any feedback is appreciated.
greetings sir, do i just download the iso file of windows 10 and then move it to ventoy?
A very useful video, thank you so much
Can you make a multi boot usb with persistent data?
Thanks for this! You saved my live instead of buying tons of USB sticks.
I can recomend to use a SD-card (maybe even with an adapter). They are usually much faster than sticks themself.
This is false and not a good idea at all. SD cards are easily corrupted.
I had fewer SD-cards dying on me than sticks. But I aggree, nether of them is a great long time storage.
I'd be extremely grateful if you respond. I noticed you using Fedora with KDE. I plan on using Fedora, is the Wayland session buggy, is it working fine? Do I need to switch to x11?
would this work with an external SSD?
Can you make a video on how to theme ventoy
Found this today. Corrupted the installation of my only pc at hand and need to create a live usb. Had to buy otg cable but thats about it.
Sir how to create a bootable usb where one can place Linux , windows and mac os all together
Ventoy is pretty neat. My only concern is that the operating systems installed from it boot in MBR mode. Having the option to boot from the .efi file of your choice on UEFI systems is a life saver when your grub loader inevitably gets messed up. If you've installed using Ventoy, fixing it becomes a bit more complicated.
I haven't tried Ventoy yet but I saw on website you can select GPT in web interface under options before installing Ventoy onto USB.
The way it works for me is in the boot menu, if I pick the stick that has UEFI in front of it, the distro I install uses the UEFI method to install, and if I pick the one without UEFI, the distro installs the MBR way.
@@peteruk8 Looks like the Linux CLI installer can be set to use GPT using -g as an argument. I might have missed that when I created it. I reinstalled Ventoy, hopefully that will cause the installs made from it to use UEFI mode as well.
@@TruckFarmer Not sure if I understand. You get a choice between MBR and GPT bootloaders when you boot from your Ventoy stick? Or you have one USB stick for each?
@@justsomeguy5103 "Since Ventoy-1.0.15, you can install Ventoy with GPT partition style ..." Check Ventoy's site. It will give you a guide.
I just search up "ventoy GPT" to get this info.
Nice, I will test this tool.
I tried sometime ago but I didn't work for me I don't know what was wrong but the concept is awesome thanks
You got a subscriber Sir!!!!
@3:40 can anyone else hear the stereo thumping in the background? It's so low, it sounds like it's out in my own street. I had no idea these cheap headphones could reproduce such frequencies!
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I subscribed cause you helped me alot and liked cause you also helped again in bad times fixing others pc 🖥
I have the same Kingston Datatraveler pendrive.
Awesome 😎. Keep going
Just for reference, what which thinkpad were you running this on?
Don't use ventoy just for iso mutiboot. Use the persistence mode multiboot ventoy feature (vhd or dat). Combine USB 3.X ssd/nvme. It's more fun !!!!!
Could you elaborate on that? Like maybe give some links ??
@@adityaj7664 Ventoy Documentation:
www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_vhdboot.html
www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_vtoyboot.html
www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html
I wanted to make this so much but it never booted. Thanks for the tutorial
The only issue with Ventoy now is that it doesn't support Secure Boot. So if you want to install Windows with that enabled for whatever reason it won't work.
Let's stick with their OS flashing tool and that's it.
Anyway, Ventoy rocks!
@TechHut
ok great info
but have a question am a windows user and wanna try linux
i want dual boot windows 11 and kde neon ,2 separate ssd but in uefi bios secure boot is on ,fast boot is on,
is it possible?
Warning: Ventoy's hardware compatibility is not that good. Some computers simply refuse to even boot Ventoy itself. Even then, your ISOs might not be booted correctly, or your setup environment may not read files.
So if you're an IT manager or some sort and you have problems, write the ISO the traditional way. If you're only gonna use it on your own PC, go ahead.
Which computer brands failed on you? Also, which Operating System were they running? Can you also add year model of the BIOS?
@@Ironpants57 I don't remember them. I fix computers. I get various vendors.
It could be that you ran it on a UEFI computer, and bios won't allow you to change to a mixed mode, that is "legacy/uefi".
If you then try to run for example old versions of PartedMagic from the stick, which I have tried, it won't work.
There are probably a bunch of older Linux systems which won't boot in such a singular uefi-environment.
A while ago, i wanted to install windows alongside manjaro kde, so i tried to fo it.... but the only time i was able yo success is when i got gnome-boxes with windows and then i used rufus on it and it worked...
recommended USB drive types/size?
Awesome. Thank you
Can i then install the ISO on the computer ? Or the operating system lives only on the stick?
Bro, What os your using in this tutorial. If that is linux, what distro and desktop. Please tell that bro.