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Ventoy: one USB drive for all your installers
Stop carrying one flash drive per operating system.
If you work in support, you’ve probably carried several USB drives, each with a different installer. Ventoy fixes that: you install it once on the drive and then just copy ISO files. When you boot from the drive, a menu lets you pick which one to start.
In my test I used a 64 GB drive with ten ISO images, including Windows 10 and 11, Ubuntu, Fedora and Kali Linux. All of them booted and installed without issues.
How to set it up
- Download Ventoy from its official site, ventoy.net.
- Run Ventoy2Disk and select your drive. Everything on it will be erased, so back it up first.
- Click Install.
- Copy your ISO files to the drive like any other file.
- Boot the computer from the USB drive using the boot menu (usually F12, F11 or Esc, depending on the manufacturer).
Tips
- If the computer uses Secure Boot, Ventoy may ask you to enroll its key the first time; follow the on-screen steps.
- Download ISOs only from official sources and verify their checksums.
- Adding or removing a system is as simple as copying or deleting the ISO file.
One drive, every installer: don’t leave without it.