Ventoy Universal ISO Boot Utility Discussion Thread

[sam_86314]

Looks like a neat tool.

Currently trying to use it with my customized Windows 10 installers. I need to do more testing, but it looks like it doesn't play well with installers that have an install.esd file rather than an install.wim file.

EDIT: Swapped out my ESD-based installer for a WIM-based one and it worked just fine.

 

[OneMoar]

can this be used to boot a windows 10 installer in both pure UEFI AND MBR ?
or do you need to reform the media like rufus

 

[sam_86314]

can this be used to boot a windows 10 installer in both pure UEFI AND MBR ?
or do you need to reform the media like rufus

Looks like it can, but your mileage may vary.

 

[lexluthermiester]

can this be used to boot a windows 10 installer in both pure UEFI AND MBR ?

Yes. This utility supports both Legacy & UEFI as well as MBR & GPT.

 

[sam_86314]

Been using this tool a lot while messing with the netbook I got recently.

Android X86, Windows 7 and 10, System Rescue CD, and Debian all work perfectly.

 

[buzzi]

Wow! This is by far better than Easy2boot and multisystem, it works exactly how a multi ISO usb should, just place ISOs without rebuilding its bootloader or defragmenting the drive each time.
So far no problems with 2 linux distros on EXT4 partition, thank you lexluthermiester.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Wow! This is by far better than Easy2boot

Careful, I have yet to get an XP iso to fully work. Depending on the iso, it get part way through setup and then either freezes or crashes. It still progress from trying to boot an iso written straight to a USB drive though..

 

[4YouNoOne]

Good Util, I tried to inject exFat drivers and it worked.

I used this file https://www.kandev.com/files/WinXP/exfat driver for Windows XP/WindowsXP-KB955704-x86-ENU.exe

 

[buzzi]

Careful, I have yet to get an XP iso to fully work. Depending on the iso, it get part way through setup and then either freezes or crashes. It still progress from trying to boot an iso written straight to a USB drive though..

Do they work when used with other tools? Have you tried a (custom) xp ISO made for example with nlite?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Do they work when used with other tools?

Not that I have seen yet. But I'm still playing around with Ventoy to see if there is a way to make XP work.

Have you tried a (custom) xp ISO made for example with nlite?

Yes, I've tried virgin(unaltered) iso's, custom iso's and WinPE based iso's and none work. XP crashes regardless. I've tried several different systems as well with the same results. Kinda disappointing really, but then again XP is not the goal of the Ventoy project specifically. It would be nice if they worked it in though.

 

[buzzi]

What about other tools (e.g. unetbootin, easytoboot, rufus , sardu etc)?

 

[lexluthermiester]

What about other tools (e.g. unetbootin, easytoboot, rufus , sardu etc)?

You mean about XP or 9X? Easy2Boot works for both I believe. Rufus does not. I haven't used UnetBootin enough to know for sure. Never heard of Sardu.

 

[buzzi]

Let us know!

 

[SteveSi]

Easy2Boot version 2 supports direct booting from MBR and now due to addition of grub2 agFM on the 2nd FAT32 partition, also UEFI32, UEFI64 and Secure Boot UEFI64 (it then disables Secure Boot so you can boot non-secure ISOs too). Just copy the ISOs, Windows VHDs, .IMG files, .EFI files to the first NTFS partition. Not all files need to be contiguous.
agFM also allows you to switch-in/out the E2B .imgPTN files if you need them (but since UEFI-booting to ISOs is now supported, you won't need them so much).
You can also add Ventoy to the 2nd FAT32 partition so you have more options (Easy2Boot/agFM/Ventoy for MBR, or agFM/Ventoy for UEFI64+Secure Boot, or agFM for UEFI32).

 

[OneMoar]

doesn't boot my custom winxpe build for some reason

 

[lexluthermiester]

doesn't boot my custom winxpe build for some reason

Yeah, Windows XP has turned out to be problematic with Ventoy.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Didn't @Solaris17 have something similar one time?

 

[OneMoar]

Yeah, Windows XP has turned out to be problematic with Ventoy.

win10xpe* I contacted the dev I can get it to boot in compatablity mode but ventoy apperently does not allow re-mounting the iso after boot
I have a work around ill post later I am still going over it with him in the issue tracker

 

[Solaris17]

Didn't @Solaris17 have something similar one time?

A million years ago.

I do this now.

Guide: Making a better diag drive

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[OneMoar]

A million years ago.

I do this now.

Guide: Making a better diag drive

Hi everyone! Cranked a redbull and some coffee and with end of the year projects coming to a close for me or progress waiting on co-op from other departments I thought it was high time to cover this in a tech forum. As some of you know I work in the IT industry. I moonlight as a general tech...

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thats still the Hardaway just download windows 10 xpe and tick what things you want included and slap the build it button

that being said if somebody wants to make sense of this horrible translation be my guest

Ventoy

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.

www.ventoy.net

basically what needs to happen is that win10xpe expects the root of the iso to be mounted under y: after boot and thats not happening

I can't make heads or tails of the engrish in that post to see how to make ventoy do that

for now I just moved the programs folder,cdusb.y the root of the drive with the iso

x10pe looks for the cdusb.y and if it finds it it mounts that directory as y xpe also expects there to be Only One copy of the cdusb.y having two causes breakage so after initial build you need to Goto the iso prebuild folder and cut the programs and cdusb.y file and move it to the root of the drive BEFORE clicking the rebuild iso button

I had to comment out the functionality the creates the cdusb.y in the core win10xpescript to make it build the iso without it so it could be manually placed in the root of the drive
this has to be done after the initial build of the iso but before the final build where you remove the programs folder from the iso target
its been my experience that some ISO tools have problems dealing with xpe iso's and mounting and editing them creates problems (YMMV)

I accually prefer this method as most of the utility's I opted to roll in run just fine without being installed this leaves them accessible on the root of the pen drive

ill just drop this here since I was uploading it anyway

ventoy-bobssuperboot.rar

drive.google.com

windows 10 pe 2004 with a bunch of random stuff added

installation instructions
1. install ventoy to your drive of choice https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html
2. extract .rar onto drive
2. you may add any other isos you wish to boot to the \ISO's folder
3. if you need a specific program added to the boot-disk pm me with a link to it. it needs to be portable and run under winpe

3. read the dam readme file