The LAST flash drive you will ever need! Ventoy FULL walk-thru and review!

Instead of having multiple flash drives with multiple ISO utility files on each, how about ONE drive with EVERYTHING on it - and as a bonus, I'm going to show you how to also use this one flash drive for your personal file backups as well!
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[@AskYourComputerGuy]

How large of a flash drive do you need for Ventoy and personal files? Find out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqWmc6WajJunfKM

[@dominicj]

is there an bootable iso to be able to troubleshoot or access files on a mac os disk?

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

not that I’m aware of unfortunately

[@dominicj]

@@AskYourComputerGuy thanks, update us if u find out.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Absolutely!

[@glitter_fart]

Good luck. asshole.

[@andredor]

It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks, but VENTOY did it to me. After all, this is some kind of holiday

[@JamsODonnell100]

Brilliant! I’ve got a big smile on my face 😁. I just ordered and received a shiny new flash drive. In order to make the rescue disc/s but hadn’t got round to doing it by following your previous hyrens video. Even though I know nothing, I was asking myself why you needed two drives. As if by magic this came up. Very much appreciate your clear instructions. And even more your candour about how you decided to investigate, and then recommend, Ventoy. Thank you 🙏

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

That's what I do here. I'm always learning, just like you. I just filter my knowledge down to the masses ;)

[@andrew_koala2974]

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[@greyowl9295]

dude, I have to give u ur props, I have a mini pc took a dive, couldn't do anything with besides paperweight, I know absolutely nuffin on thumbdrives, computers, laptops n recovery, watched a myriad of vids, u my man exquisite teacher, u extremely helped my to reinstall windows, to bypass bsod, to get around not being able to get in my pc, as of today I have it completely restored, 96.5% ur wisdom, knowledge, 35% scraps of others collective info, u have mad skills, superb teaching abilities, I'm 67 years old just starting to try to learn, there's no ending to my appreciation n thanks 2 u

[@shabadooshabadoo4918]

I appreciate you distributing this knowledge and the way you explain everything so that even a beginner could understand. I would always recommend showing, even very quickly, what something does, then going over installation.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thanks, much appreciated 👍

[@paulcomputer]

This really helps a lot. One USB drive is enough.. now I can use my other USB drives. Thanks for sharing this

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Absolutely! Glad you enjoyed it and found it useful :)

[@michaelzoran]

NOTICE: I Formatted my USB drive. I was under the presumption this would remove everything associated with "Ventoy." However, "Formatting"" the USB drive did NOT remove Ventoy. When Ventoy is placed on the USB drive, Ventoy creates its own partition. This partition is NOT "Formatted" when the USB drive is "Formatted." Apparentlly the only way to get rid of Ventoy from a USB drive is to "Merge" all the partitions, and then do a "Format" of the USB drive. I was going to use MemTest86 on its own - without Ventoy. So, MemTest86 was placed on the one partition that was new and had been formatted. But, when I used MemTest86 it showed up under "Ventoy," even though MemTest was on the other partition.

[@charliesretrocomputing]

You have to go into Disk Management and delete the volumes. Then create a new Simple Volume with the unallocated space.

[@pipfpv7489]

Thank you. a coworker introduced me to ventoy and this was a really easy to follow guide on how to setup the bootdevice.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Glad you enjoyed it 👍

[@katgrey6239]

Oh my, this instruction video just won you a new subscriber from WV, USA! I appreciate your step-by-step instructions. Thank you!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thanks for the sub!

[@dillardblom3312]

Ventoy is great, I've been using this for 2-3 years now and it never lets down. Nice to have covered this with your video!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Great to hear! Thanks for the comment and the support! :)

[@randyvanheusden732]

I have been using Ventoy for several years now and have it on a 1TB USB SanDisk, and also on a USB 2TB Seagate personal drive and have copied approximately 65 ISO's to it and it works great. So it does not have to be limited to a small USB Flash Drive. My next project is to learn the Network Ventoy.

[@neil03051957]

Thanks I was wondering about this option on a 1TB WD. cheers

[@oldpain7625]

Love the topic, the content, and your kindness in community towards viewers and comments. Subbed gratefully! Thank you and Merry Christmas! 🌲🎁☃️

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@NealPT]

I'm impressed .... a "How to" video that is easy to follow and made so it's not flying thru screens so I can't see what was selected. I'll be watching more of your videos for sure. I had never heard of Ventoy and I read a LOT.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thanks, much appreciated 👍

[@maupedx]

These are all methods for which computer technicians are usually stuck. Nowadays everything is much more simplified. All you need is a copy, even the free version, of Aomei Backupper, which creates a grub menu from which you can choose whether to enter your OS or Aomei's recovery system. Aomei also creates incremental backups for you to access at boot time, at any time.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Agreed. Backupper is a quality product.

[@riccardod8425]

I'm currently using Macrium Reflect instead of Aomei backupper since the day Aomei failed to restore my PC. Just my 2 cents. I even had a copy of Acronis True Image but it was an elephant.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Acronis was my go to for mnay years. Macrium went to a pricing model but you can still find the free versions out there online and they work great

[@PracticaProphetica]

I used to use Acronis, but it didn't work well for copying one drive to another (when both drives were in an external caddy)...it kept using the boot info from the internal drive, and if that was different than the external, oh well. I guess this was supposed to be a limitation on the home version to prevent you from using it in a tech environment. I tried Macrium (free) and liked it, especially it's emergency boot USB creation. So I purchased a 4-license family pack on a sale they had. Shortly after they jacked up the price to a subscription model (per machine) that was expensive. I might use more than 4 licenses, so I was looking elsehwere. Since then I've considered Hasleo Backup Suite. It is free and even supports incremental and differential backups (which FBackup does not do in the free version). I'm going to be experimenting with it in the future.

[@Testiculitis]

Been using YUMI for years, but this seems a little more fluid 👍 You can have Ventoy ignore an entire directory, and its subdirectories, by placing an unnamed file with the extension ".ventoyignore" within it (In other words, the file should only have the extension with no name prefixing it). This is useful if you have other .ISO files on the drive that aren't bootable, and will speed up the loading of Ventoy, especially if you have many other files that don't need to be searched by it. (By the way, there a quick registry edit you can do to remove drives showing up multiple times on the Windows Explorer sidebar. Absolutely drives me nuts!)

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Worth checking into, thanks! 💪

[@FlyboyHelosim]

I used YUMI for a bit but one day just stopped booting. Another issue is that it can take longer to write ISO files to the USB stick as it has to actually extract them... which leads to the other issue of having hundreds, if not thousands, of loose files on the disk in a rather convoluted file and folder structure. To remove an ISO you also have to go through an uninstall process, because of aforementioned extracted file and folder structure. Ventoy makes it so much cleaner and simpler, with less likelihood of corruption or user confusion.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Good to know. I've heard other people brag about YUMI but wasn't familiar with it. This is good info to be aware of 💪

[@SnarkierThan-U-R]

very informative, and easy to understand. Thanks, glad that I subscribed.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

I'm glad you did as well! Welcome to the community! Thx for the comment. Let me know if there is any video topic you'd like to see covered :)

[@ChrisM541]

What a superb tool. Big thanks for the headsup and for this excellent tutorial.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Glad you found it useful! Thx and welcome to the community! :)

[@Ripper1302x]

You should consider adding information about how Ventoy's "security key" may need to be enrolled before before the newly created Ventoy USB can be used to boot to the various ISO options on the USB. I have created some Ventoy USB over the past few years and never encountered the problem I had when creating a new USB to use with my new Windows 11 computer, using your easy to follow guide. Because secure boot was in effect I needed to enroll the key (I did it through the key method, not the hash method) and once I did that the Ventoy USB worked fine. Yes, I know I could have turned secure boot off and used Ventory and then turn secure boot back on, but hey when your are troubleshooting a problem that step could be forgotten.

[@RichardRagan]

Hi ripper, I think I have that problem with your describing. I have a new Lenovo Windows 11 computer and I can't get ventoy to boot on my thumb drive. I got an error message. Can you describe what you mean when you say you enrolled a key on ventoy? I have no idea what that means. thanks

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

👍

[@user-nl4rs4nt6i]

I'm using a ventoy 500gb external ssd for over a year and it's a really great tool, the only minor problem is it's not considered safe bootable on some lenovo laptops even with safe key implemented. Still starts working after some setups in extended mode bios.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

👍

[@geoffmoore8208]

I love your channel and I’m learning so much. You are amazing! Thank you.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@kizzzit5724]

THANKS !! Very insightful and Helpful...

[@chaturvedirishab]

In my 15 years of IT job - I have never seen anyone like you who can run everything you should in this video as if "it's SO SIMPLE". You just gave me GOD MODE haha. God bless :)

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Best comment of the week! 💪❤️🍺

[@Universe11556]

Ir is possible like MBR and GPT in one ventoy flash drive

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

@SK11335 no. You can only have one file system per drive.

[@stirlingnguyen9284]

This is very impressive! At my previous job, I had different Windows versions on different USB flash drives and yes... different utilities on separate flash drives. Nice touch with the addition of the personal file backups! 😂 Thank you sir for your video!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@dennissmith1469]

I done the two Jump process from your video and totally repaired a Toshiba laptop! Thank you very much and now im doing this setup too!!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Glad it helped

[@dennissmith1469]

@AskYourComputerGuy it totally helped me!

[@James_T_Quirk]

Yes, year 52 in PC's for me, HIREN's was also a tool in my pack, when I last repaired/used windows, but I have been using Ventoy last 12 months or so to manage multiple Raspberry PI's & Clones like Nano Pi - Orange Pi etc, all use ARM Ubuntu, but different Versions depending on CPU it was compiled for, so Ventoy is real handy keeping all the ARM ISO's in 1 spot .. ;)

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Nice!!!

[@Neeboopsh]

ventoy is absolutely fabulous. some isos do -not- work, but generally most do.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

👍

[@RedSaint83]

One thing you might have mentioned was the Partition Configuration option, which makes it possible to reserve some space for a separate partition on the flash drive when you flash it with Ventoy. This is great when you use live CD's as you can access the internet and download stuff, save it on the separate partition in case you haven't prepared for something going wrong like having Hirens or whatever. EDIT: As far as I know, since I haven't used Ventoy since version 1.0.78, it's not possible to access the ISO storage part when you boot into a live CD environment - might've changed.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

I did address this at 11:06, but the reason I chose the folder option vs the separate partition option is because I had difficulty making it work and boot properly. If I had an issue with it, I knew an average user would also. So creating a folder just for personal files (which can also be mapped as a drive letter in Windows, simulating a separate partition), would be a much more user-friendly option ;)

[@mdmn8160]

❤ from Burundi 🇧🇮. Your videos are awesome and straightforward. Definitely subscribing

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Awesome! And welcome! :)

[@mdmn8160]

@@AskYourComputerGuy thanks 😊

[@bleakyfinder2692]

Subscribed, thank you just found your excellent channel, regards from the UK.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Awesome, thank you!

[@roberthunter6927]

Back in the day, I used Hiren's by loading on a writable mini-CD [you could get versions that were credit-card sized that could pop straight into your wallet for an 'everyday carry"]. There were also mini-distros of Linux, and of course, it was lots of command-line interfacing. So familiarity with bash and DOS shell was important. The thing about read-only installation/repair media is that you can be absolutely sure that the change-rooted environment you boot up in is clean of malware [provided of course your media was clean to begin with!; -)] I suppose in theory you could come across viral code in the CMOS memory, but I never encountered it.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Very true. And I, too, remember the mini-cd. You'd see a lot of them passed around as "business cards". Glad that trend didn't last LOL

[@alawabidingcitizen]

Thank you for the useful info. I used to be a Geek Squad member back in the day.. Early to late 2000s then left for law enforcement.. Just one thing so you guys don't learn the hard way like I did. I did all that nice setup then I decided to "add" Medicat. It wiped everything and there was no warning of format like all the formatting softwares I've used. I had a bunch of ISOs and drivers. It seems like if you want to go with Medicat do that first, then if your flash drive is large like mine (256GB), just add the extra stuff on it after.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Good tip, thank you! 💪

[@MiamiGuy1972]

Awesome information and channel, thank you!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

My pleasure!

[@swallowedinthesea11]

Another great one! Thank you, Scott!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thank YOU! :)

[@chokey84]

I've been using ventoy for quite sometime and it is really helpful.. forget about other apps like rufus etc.. its really a game changer..

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

It impressed me and made me switch my methodology. Enough said! 💪

[@overbuiltlimited]

I guess I don't get it. Why is Ventoy better than backing up to an external drive? Also, I've always wondered why backing up isn't a one or two click thing. They have created high level AI but somehow these smart people can't (won't?) design a back up process without 197 steps?

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Ventoy is better, in my opinion, because you not only have the ability to back up to a flash drive (or external storage in your case), but you have the added benefit of tons of repair tools and operating system installers on the same disk. Just makes sense to wear one took belt vs several. But everyone has different needs ;)

[@patpalmer2353]

What is the best combination for the flash drive when you create Vin toy? Mbr or gpt, and what file system, expat or ntfs? combination I messed up my jump drives now having problems creating but I gotta wipe them start over again so that’s why I’m asking.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

For best compatibility in my opinion, probably MBR and EX-FAT. For speed, MBR and NTFS. Stay away from GPT as it's a newer fornat and not all machines have the ability to read GPT drives yet. Stick with MBR and EX-FAT and you should be fine 💪

[@Derakkon2]

I used to carry around a wallet just for USB drives. Ever since I found out about Ventoy, I only ever need just one flash drive now. It's been awesome not having to worry about labeling all my drives or misplacing the particular one I need.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Pretty awesome, isn't it? I love it!

[@JasonWestaway]

Hey Scott, wow that is really impressive, Thanks for giving me the link to this video. I definitely go the Ventoy route. Really enjoyed how you explained it step-by-step. I'm sure this USB Drive is a lifesaver!!! Again massive thank you. Ah, side note or suggestion... Think of adding a "Join" I know I'd definitely support your channel.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

I appreciate your support and I thank you! Considering opening a members-only section on my channel, just haven't gotten around to it yet with the incredible (and surprising) growth in 2023. Stay tuned, I'm sure it's coming soon :)

[@JasonWestaway]

Sure will. Thank you again. I appreciate you too.

[@babakoosaw]

thank you. I did just as you said. feel safe now. I spent $2.444 on this gamer pc and i do not want it to crash. subed you :)

[@MickMacklerack]

There is also the optical drive emulator device called "IODD". Same ISO drag and drop. IODD will boot on any hardware as the pc/server will see it as a USB optical disk. Boots on everything even old 2000 era hardware that is non-UEFI.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Nice! Will check into it! 👍💪

[@blueskiesok]

Iodd 2541 and st400 are two devices personally used. Recommend either. They can do images, ISO’s, VHD, and virtual removable hard drives. Works with all devices I have tried on that can do disc boot also.

[@jbthomas2592]

Thank you for this excellent video. I don't always follow directions and take shortcuts to save time. After reviewing the process, I fixed my mistakes and now everything works well. I am glad I found your channel!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

So glad to hear that! Glad you figured it out ;)

[@EZLogikal]

Where has this been my whole life?? Since I didn't know about this, I just recently picked up the Iodd ST400 - an external SSD enclosure that allows you to select ISOs like this... works a little differently, but same idea. Between these two tricks, 15+ years of always having the wrong installer is finally over! Thanks :)

[@nycrsny3406]

cool, thanks for this simple step by step guide!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

So glad you found it useful! 💪

[@chrisc2252]

Great content, another great video is to make these ISO's persistent. I have linux persistent on ventoy but never got around to windows. May be a good idea and when i say persistent i mean to use the drive as a full operating system with software/programms installed rather than carrying a laptop around 👍USB 4 is fast now so no need for internal storage 😉

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Scheduled for a follow-up video ;)

[@pestpatroller]

Love Ventoy. Very useful for folks who want to test-drive different Linux distributions. Plus, all the spare room on the USB drive can be used for persistent storage. On mine I have Eset-sysrescue, Rescuezilla( mainly for cloning drives), ParrotOS-Security plus a bunch of Windows and Linux ISOs.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Nice mix of ISOs! :)

[@rootcanal7188]

@@AskYourComputerGuy In my experience, Parrot OS can "see" the Windows hard drive better than Mint can.

[@Nicole.TaylorsVersion]

Thank you for your knowledge, as a young person who wants to be a Tech by my ownself i want to be prepared for any possible troubles, i want to make My own toolkit, and im happy that i found you, sharing your knowledge and experience.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

You can do it! Glad to help!

[@RogerSpangler]

In IT since the early dos days this is great tool and video as well. Thanks for the info.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thanks, much appreciated! 👍

[@timhelps2761]

Easy2boot does more than Ventoy and Easy2boot can have both Ventoy and agFM installed additionally on the same flash drive should you want to use any of the three options.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Noted. I'll check them out!

[@g-man2450]

Also use Easy2boot since it first came out, surprised so many people have never heard of it.

[@coffee2629]

I was about to write that

[@justincgs]

Years ago I used SARDU. Not sure if it's still around.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Yep! www.sarducd.it/sardu-multiboot-creator

[@FlyboyHelosim]

One thing to be wary of is updating the Ventoy software on the USB stick using the update option in the program's menu. When I did that it wiped all the ISO files from my USB stick and made it so that none of the partitions were recognized by Windows. I had to do a DiskPart format to get the drive back to factory standards and functional again. I think in some cases the Ventoy software has to be updated using that live ISO file that's also available for download on the Ventoy website, although when I last looked into it there wasn't much documentation on it. Since then I just run an older version of Ventoy as am too scared to update it given that I've got about 60Gb of ISO files now on my Ventoy stick and it's slow as molasses writing that much data to even USB 3.0.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thanks for sharing. I have not heard of Ventoy deleting anything on the update except the boot partition, which is not where the ISO files should be stored. Maybe that's what happened, you put the ISO files on the boot partition? Is that possible?

[@FlyboyHelosim]

@@AskYourComputerGuy That's what's meant to happen. No I didn't put the ISOs on the boot partition because for me at least that's hidden in Windows.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Well that's news to me. Can't see any other way it would, considering the people who created Ventoy say it doesn't delete anything, just updates. I'd check the Ventoy forums for more information

[@Daonexus]

@@FlyboyHelosim I think it only formats if you change the partition type. try to remember if you used mbr or gpt as partition type in ventoy before doing an update! I regularly update my ventoy drive and I haven't come across any issues regarding my iso's getting deleted. Maybe try to see what went wrong on a test drive?

[@FlyboyHelosim]

@@Daonexus I would have kept the partition type the same, MBR, as I use a 64Gb USB stick. I only really did the update out of curiosity. It's not something I really feel the need to keep updated and I don't even use it that often.

[@floridasaltlife]

subscribed, big fan of what you do, Thank You so much... I am following several of your recommendations...

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Welcome aboard!

[@George_K1]

Great Video, very informative, nice presentation, I like the curtain screens (steps)

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thank you so much! I appreciate you watching, glad it helped 💪

[@zeburgerkang]

TLDR: Install Ventoy as a live disk on a USB, Grab the ISO's of the OS's/Tools you want, Copy Paste ISO's onto USB, Boot as a live disk. Jobs done.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

👍

[@jordanch68]

The only issue I had with Ventoy was with ISO's that were either UEFI or legacy boot. Mixing the two didn't work so I had to have two Ventoy drives one that was for legacy booting ISOa and one for UEFI booting ISOs. It may not be an issue any longer so I'll give it another try.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

That's an interesting dilemma. Haven't even thought of that. Let me know what you find out. I'm sure someone on the Ventoy forums has addressed this. I'd start there :)

[@jordanch68]

@@AskYourComputerGuy I think it may be more of an issue with the BIOS config and the ISOs in Ventoy. Selecting either UEFI or Legacy boot in the BIOS can cause a failure in the opposite one booting depending on which one the ROM uses.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Understood

[@Derakkon2]

I haven't personally had any issues with that. Although the only legacy BIOS app that I have run recently is memtest

[@markdawson25]

Agreed... had the same problem when I first used Ventoy (with Medicat) a couple weeks ago trying to clone/upgrade a laptop SSD... some of the iso's wouldn't boot until I changed the BIOS to legacy... then others wouldn't work until I changed it back to UEFI. At some point Windows gave errors and I had a mini-heart atack as it looked like something partition related got screwed up. My suggestion is to make notes about each step you try, so you can go back and undo it logically.

[@user-ms8hq5kv1s]

Just come across your You tube video , very impressive and helpful, much thanks from New Zealand

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thanks for watching!

[@sexysensation]

Extremely helpful, thanks ☺️

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Glad it helped!

[@dailyfilmfix469]

The only potential setback with a mult-booting ISO USB stick that contains Windows and Linux installers may be constraints with secure boot, UEFI and legacy-based firmware BIOSes. Some systems may not recognize the USB drive if it's formatted to a system-specific setup. Of course most modern hardware is UEFI but the question is if the installed ISOs will work in both environments. DELL, HP, Lenovo, etc. all seem to be on the same page in respects to pre-boot security constraints. The old days of just tapping a function key, esc or delete to get a USB to boot may be coming to an end, unfortunately...

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Unfortunately, that's true. I sure miss the good old days 🥲

[@dailyfilmfix469]

@@AskYourComputerGuy Windows XP days were the best!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Couldn't agree more! Seems every other Windows OS is horrible, followed by a great one

[@englishrupe01]

U E F I ?.............what on earth is that? A newer type of vinyl LP for HiFi? ;-)

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

@englishrupe01 😂😂😂

[@mtech1961]

I am also in the IT Field, I am heading towards retirement so I am old school. I find your channel refreshingly easy to follow. Going to Use an External USB3 SSD instead of a USB Flash. Looking at Medicat as well. Thanks for the pointers.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Good deal! And congratulations on your upcoming "parole" 😂

[@scroopynooperz9051]

Medicat FTW! Saved my ass many times 😂

[@invisiblekid99]

As a new PC owner (left my 10yo iMac) I’m bamboozled but what I need to do/what I can do/what I shouldn’t do. This is a great video. Now granted I haven’t looked yet at your channel but have you a noobs guide to good PC etiquette, basic do’s and don’t’s. My SSD iMac has stayed pretty quick apart from ram issues and wouldn’t love some tips about organising files etc to help.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

I've got a few on my channel...here's A good start: 9 Windows settings EVERY user should change NOW! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGiThoKCi7Rnf5Y

[@papa_oso]

Great video man, thanks! Liked & subscribed 🤙

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thank you, my friend! 👍

[@gsxrsquid]

I'm looking forward to your Medicat USB video!!!

[@tonyweavers4292]

Great video, thanks. You have a new subscriber!

[@rananjerry6268]

Ive been using ventoy for a while and ive been enjoying it

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

It's pretty amazing!

[@charlysantamaria8646]

Thanks for sharing, much appreciated

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Glad you enjoyed it, hope it helped!

[@iwpsurf]

Awesome video. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thanks, I appreciate that! 💪

[@mav29]

nice been doing these kind of stuff for quite sometime too, great video, learned another great thing today, im totally retooling again

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Awesome! Thx for sharing :)

[@peterrutkowski2742]

Been using Ventoy for few years after going through other similar utilities. My #1 utility to go to.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Agreed!

[@trebel]

Thank you for all your hard work. Cheers m8 😀

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thank you for watching!

[@nightfallalicorn4246]

I've been using Ventoy for a while. It's brilliant.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Agreed!

[@muhammadaltahhan1244]

Thank you very much and great informative video and presentation!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@DougSmithAT]

I do also use Ventoy too. It works in most cases. Thanks for your channel

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

I appreciate that 👍

[@abdaimegaming2679]

I had no idea this existed, thank you for the information

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Glad it helped! 👍

[@jwild1979]

Great tips, glad I stumbled across your this vid

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thank you! 💪👍

[@arjunsamuel]

Wow! Amazing video. Thanks muchly.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thank you for your support! 💪

[@user-TheTrueGibly]

Probably not one of the use cases youve heard of but i installed ventoy on an sd card so i can partition the ssd on my steam deck and install windows on it but afterwards i realized that it formatted my sd card in a way that allows it to be used as a storage drive in both steamos and windows meaning i can transfer files from linux to windows seamlessly which is really cool so i just kept ventoy installed on my sd card ever since and its been awesome

[@CrazyRFGuy]

I will have to look at ventoy more, seen it a while back but SARDU has been my goto for like 15 years. It even has built in links to pull common iso's.

[@kingseekerbackup3085]

I have a 64gb flashdrive with ventoy containing windows 10, 11, and various linux distros. Very useful.

[@TrueBlade-1889]

Macrium Reflect is all you need, as long as you make regular image backups. It also repairs boot sectors.

[@guybenbaruch]

Amazing video. Thank you!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Awesome, glad you found it useful! :)

[@ComputingwithRandy-53]

I learned about Ventoy about two years ago, as I was trying out every multiboot flash drive program around. The problem was some ISO's would work and others not. So far I have found them all to work and work well with Ventoy. I have several Ventoy disks that I create so that if one gets corrupted when you least expect it I have another. I also have a 2TB Seagate Personal drive and have over 80 different ISO's on it. Like you I have also created a folder to put other software and files that I might need. I have started using a larger group of portable applications which do not have to be installed into the system like the normal installs, for working with a computer customer. Thank you for sharing this video. Side note, when you go to install a linux distro like Ubuntu, you need to remove the USB drive before you do the install. It will otherwise become part of the boot process of the installed distro. That corrupts the Ventoy drive and you have to do a remake when you get home.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Good to know! 👍

[@TauLim]

Good useful video, thanks for sharing.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ut561]

Looks good i'll give it a try. I'm glad you mentioned the Hiren's virus problem. Firefox warned me and that's the reason I never tested it. I'll give that another try also.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

I got a ton of comments on the 2 flash drive video about it so I figured if throw it out there to save my viewers time and headache and having to reach out 👍

[@Kyle-lc3re]

I will have to try this.

[@mrk4510]

I can confirm this worked great for me. Good stuff!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Great to hear!

[@michael_alan]

A great tutorial. Thanks!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thanks! I appreciate that! 💪

[@yeshua4590]

Thanks, great info , very informative

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thank you :)

[@mrk4510]

Pretty amazing. Thanks a ton for the info! 🙂👍

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

You got it 👍

[@solmix1565]

Great Information , it helping me a lot on my work

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Great to hear!

[@NeoGhk]

So, this Ventoy is a menu driven for all iso's. Nice. After making a win10 rescue flash drive, as you did in your other video, now I want Ventoy instead. I'll have to format and install all over again. Thanks for this new insight. SUBSCRIBED.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

I'm always learning! It was actually a viewer who told me about it AFTER I released the "2 usb drives" video. So glad they did! Thx for the support 👍

[@vladislavkaras491]

Great video, thanks!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Glad you enjoyed it 👍

[@litoaranda1810]

Great Tip ... !!! ME Too, I always go Old School, and this is a great new Tool (Thank You !!!)

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Awesome! Glad you found it useful! 👍

[@jasonthomas9967]

Very useful info, thanks a ton :)

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

You're welcome!

[@trojanhorse3462]

Awesome content dude! Subbed

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thank you!

[@MaybeTiberius]

the thing about ventoy, that i like the most is the fact that you can still use a ventoy stick as a normal usb drive ontop. Therefore, i have like 6 or 7 flash drives around the house and all of them are ventoy sticks just in case. so i dont even need to find the one bootable stick, i can boot from any flash drive

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

💪👍

[@Robert8455]

Good info here! Thanks

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

You're welcome! ❤️

[@robertradke8026]

Great video. Just found you and subscribed.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

So glad to have you here! Thx for watching :)

[@barndweller4573]

Thank You very much. I have created the USB, just ordered a mother board cpu and memory so I can play with it to have a test bed for M.2 drives and upgrading drives without risking my main computer. Again Thank You for making this great video and I have subscribed to your channel.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Glad I could help! Thanks!!!

[@fragalot]

Ventoy also can boot floppy disk images (.img files) so you can run MemTestx86, or a simple DOS boot disk image and get a command prompt.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Nice! Good tip, thanks for sharing! ❤️

[@RichieBeaumont]

Thanks you helped me alot

[@stelchor]

@AskYourComputerGuy you are a legend! This video saved my PC! Including the video Clean ANY Malware or Virus off PC. Many thanks mate, highly recommended!!!

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Thanks, my friend! ❤️

[@mikem511]

Thanks this is very helpful.

[@AskYourComputerGuy]

Glad you enjoyed it! 👍

[@JustinEmlay]

I've had nothing but problems using this with various servers and for some reason over a handful of laptops. What I've never had an issue with is using the ST400 from iodd. It just flat out shows up as a 100% compatible BD Drive.

[@truefeelings7]

fisrt time i made bootable hhd {80gb} disk by vintoy with 2 partition one for boot and 2nd for others stuff ... also u can make iso link { 32kb in size} no need to paste iso's in vintoy partition if you use same system + also you have option for bios{mbr},gpt{{ufi} ... this is best thing ever in this filed.