Ventoy

With Ventoy, Windows PC users may build bootable USB sticks, SSDs, NVMe, and SD cards that include any operating system ISO container without having to format the disk beforehand. Ventoy is a FREE open-source boot management tool. 

By using this method, the Ventoy developers have made it possible for computer users worldwide to create bootable USB drives more easily and to use them for standard USB purposes even when they are not booting.

Better more, this tool lets users choose how many ISO files to include on the USB drive, so all of them are available right away when a home, business, or school computer is restarted. Ventoy will first display a selection of possible ISO files, allowing users to select which one to load, as opposed to forcing them to boot just one by default, as practically all other boot managers do! 

Ventoy is available for download from the internet as a compressed ZIP archive that users must manually unpack from any location on their local or external drive rather than as an automatic installer. With this strategy, Ventoy has prioritized portability over usability, giving technicians and seasoned PC users quick access to this useful tool on portable drives when switching between PCs. Setting up Ventoy on an external USB device is a straightforward process. 

This app merely moves the custom boot mini app to the drive; it does not format the ISO or create the bootable header on the drive. This lets users load up the drive with as many bootable OS versions as they'd like by just transferring ISO files there whenever it's convenient for them. Users are greeted with the Ventoy boot listing when inserting their USB drive into the computer, which prompts them to select which of the discovered ISO files they would want to load. 

The program operates flawlessly on both older UEFI motherboards and Legacy BIOS motherboards, and it can handle ISO files larger than 4GB. Developers have tested over 800 different ISOs containing operating systems of all kinds as of the time this evaluation was written.

Highlights & Features

• Easy to use 
• Quick (only hampered by how quickly an ISO file is copied) 
• Installable on USB, Local Disk, SD Card, NVMe, and SD Card 
• Boot straight from ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD(x), or EFI files; no extraction is required. 
• Allows for local disk browsing and booting of ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD(x), and EFI files 
• No continuous disk space is required for ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD(x), or EFI files. 
• The following partition styles are supported: MBR and GPT; x86 Legacy BIOS; IA32/x86_64 UEFI; ARM64 UEFI; and MIPS64EL UEFI. Supported Secure Boot 
• Sustained persistence 
• Supported RHEL7/8/CentOS7/8/SUSE/Ubuntu Server Windows auto installation... Supported auto installation formats include NTFS, UDF, XFS, and Ext2(3)(4). compatible with ISO files
• Bigger than 4GB for the primary partition 
• Native UEFI and Legacy boot menu style 
• 850+ ISO files tested, supporting the majority of OS types 
• vDisk for Linux (vhd/vdi/raw...) boot solution 
• Not just start up but finish the installation process 
• Menu with dynamic mode switching between TreeView and ListView 
• The idea of "Ventoy Compatible" 
• GUI plugin configurator and plugin framework 
• Files for injection into a runtime environment Dynamically replacing the boot configuration file 
• The theme and menu style are highly customisable. 
• Support for write-protected USB drives 
• Normal use of USB is unaffected 
• Nondestructive data during version updates 
• When a new distro is launched, there's no need to update Ventoy because it's completely free and works with both older and more recent Windows OS versions.