The USB Boot Drive and Best Boot Utility

This show cases multiboot and also my toolkit for repairing computers. I showcase a couple of my favorite tools as well.
Best Boot Utility - Parted Magic: www.christitus.com/partedmagic
Timestamps:
00:00 Ventoy
00:30 Linux Install
02:45 Ventoy Boot
03:49 Parted Magic
05:00 Conclusion .
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[@AlexandrosGidarakos]

Hi Chris. You asked if you missed anything. imho you missed demonstrating why Ventoy is so easy to use: just dropping ISO or IMG files in Ventoy's partition without the need to do anything else!

[@lucasew]

Works like magic. So far for me all the time.

[@kalebchoi6372]

@@lucasew Just is wonk on older systems. I mean, I guess that's all multi boot utilities

[@isaacr5771]

Did u know that u can boot VHD(X) (virtual hard disks) using ventoy You would make my day if u make a video about it

[@dylansmith5210]

if you want make a video about it if you do id be interested

[@lucasew]

Just install a random distro using virtual box, copy that vhd file to ventoy and make your tests. VHD and QCOW are just fancy img with snapshot support.

[@dionnix]

​@@lucasewdoesnt work anymore (at least for windows)

[@sillysimon7889]

how about a tutorial on how to set up a persistent linux installation on ventoy?

[@jason-budney7624]

I have used Ventoy in the past, it was bit quirky then. It's nice to see it maturing, and the hard drive support is awesome to see! Thanks for the video Chris.

[@jackkraken3888]

It's just amazing how well this tool works..just dropping ISOs on the USB drive and using them is a game changer.

[@daneo617]

I actually had to make & use one of these yesterday to reinstall Windows 11 1 thing I notice most people overlook is when setting up the USB in ventoy, there's a tool option in the top left of the window to turn on or off support for secure boot if you don't you'll have to go into the BIOS and turn off secureboot if done correctly a padlock icon will show in USB setup in ventoy 🤷🏻‍♂️👍🏼✌🏼

[@mikehensley78]

I made a ventoy drive about 6 months ago(by far easiest way to get a windows installer on linux). I did not realize they added features. I'm about to make a new one. Awesome video. Thanks CTT!

[@Viking8888]

I've been using Ventoy for just shy of a year and it is as Chris says...AWESOME! Being able to just copy ISO files to you thumb drive and boot them is fantastic. Unless something doesn't work with Ventoy, I don't make bootable drives with Rufus or Etcher anymore.

[@alexberezin3513]

Thanks Chris, instainstall right during the video, really needed such a tool. Oh, and it boots VHDXs too! Simply great!

[@acatnamedharmony5671]

Just about every single "superuser" type subject I've come across lately you cover on your channel. Really appreciate you & this blackhole of super useful knowledge =) This ventoy drive is gonna save me lots of time & heartache.

[@LankyFrankey]

I am so glad I found out about Ventoy, No longer do I need to have multiple USB's for Windows and Linux Distroes, now I can have every distro and even different language windows for easy installations on friends PCs!

[@HumbertoRincon]

As I already tested, Ventoy uses grub themes too, so you can customize it to themes out there or your own

[@engelaengelbrecht6564]

So hyped to have been the one like to make this video hit 1K likes !! Also, I just recently joined the Linux world and boy is it a jungle out here! Right now I really just want to test out and try as many distros to see what works for me. I will definitely be using Ventoy from here on out.

[@jacksystems]

I've used it since your Opencore tutorial, when I saw you using it! Thanks Chris!

[@jackmccoin4640]

Can you do a specific video on installing themes and making Ventoy persistent. There are NO English videos on these subjects. Your teaching style is top-quality so to do such a video will make the KZbin algorithm go crazy!!! Thanks for your incredible channel. 👍🏾

[@chaddelarm]

Thanks for another great video! I have 6 usb drives I’m not going to turn into 1! Also I would love to see how you clean up and virus scan computers not in the OS. I’m sure you’re better/more efficient than I am. I typically convince the customer to let me do a fresh Windows install but that comes with it’s headaches too.

[@benpike4806]

Yes, I agree. A demo of how to scan a machine for viruses or malware using this tool would be great!

[@ThePowerRanger]

Been using for about a year now. Love it !!!

[@dylan.t180]

Looks great thanks for the demo

[@diveshsisodia7029]

Just did today research and used it for flashing windows. And now here is the video. 🔥

[@GabrielMartinez-ez9ue]

Very useful video man! thank you

[@MartinAhlman]

New toys are great! Love this one!

[@mrandrewromero]

Love your videos bro. They are so informative. Can you do a video on Ventoy - How to make a persistent USB for multiple linux distros. I have only found foreign videos and they are not as easy to follow. Thx!!

[@brave.freak1995]

Been using Ventoy now for about a year and love it. No more cases of usb flash drives to label and carry around. I enjoy using Parted Magic and Dban if necessary.

[@TheCocoaDaddy]

Thanks! I'll have to check it out!

[@sinnednima1028]

Got onto the bandwagon while seeing you using it, you brushed it off in a side sentence XD. Since then i promoted it at my workplace and build around it our "rescue system" with VEEAM and so on. we're using it for local restoration and setups whenever our wds is not available at our customer side

[@chrisspatgen]

Loved your video! Medicat just popped up as suggested video. Do you suggest using this Medicat Program, any thoughts? Thank you!🔧

[@tombo1001]

already use it and love it

[@PinkieBoi]

I found Ventoy not too long after your video on yumi and I totally agree, I don't know what I'd do without it now!

[@peterjansen4826]

Ah, there it is! Chris finally has his Ventoy-video. :p Cheers, bud.

[@GiancarloCarccamo]

Excelent software, great video, Thanks bro

[@ashvith6943]

Thank you Chris!!

[@andreduarte838]

Hi @ChrisTitusTech thanks for your video, very clear! I´d to ask you to do a video about home FTP server using the router and about extending Wifi over the house. Maybe some best practices tips. Thank you very much!

[@pathfindercod4638]

I like Ventoy a lot. I have been using it for a while now. I kinda got lazy and started using a setup from MediaCat USB. Great setup of tools with Ventoy.

[@KratomSyndicate]

be nice to see you review the medicat tool

[@lechsiz1642]

I'd like to see a list of a bunch of tools to add to it. I am no distro hopper and have 2 OSs chosen already. Sure wish you'd said *which* folder to drag and drop the iso to. there are 5 subfolders within the Ventoy USB.

[@AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Chris. Looks good.

[@patrickweix8289]

Love Ventoy, great for rescue/recovery and linux installs. Haven't been able to get it to work with BSDs or Haiku, but did not put in a ton of work on that.

[@zora_tech]

I really have to try this one out but I usually use Multiboot USB but that one is closed source so this seems like a way better option

[@MyReviews_karkan]

So, sudo !! Runs the last command with sudo? There is a new thing in linux everyday for me 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@fleefie]

and echo $? returns the last command's exit code, useful for debugging :)

[@sentaku4572]

there is plugin for zsh called "sudo" come with oh-my-zsh when you forget sudo at the beginning of command just double-click on "Esc" and boom.

[@mikehensley78]

Yes. "sudo bang bang" its great for the long commands you forgot to type sudo in front of.

[@ThatBrubakerFellow]

"command" !! Runs previous command with additional command appended to the front. When I forget to type ls or cd in front of a filepath I use this as well.

[@MyReviews_karkan]

@@sentaku4572 I have PTSD from zsh and fish shell or any customizable shell. I've tried fish shell once, made it the default and shit went crazy on me. It destroyed the whole distro, not even a timeshift back up fixed it. I know it's because I don't really know a lot about Linux. Still learning daily.

[@frykauf]

I hope they’ll try to make Ventoy work on Macs too. Right now it just doesn’t work and they don’t seem to have it as planned feature. Right now for Macs only something called Refind flashdrive is supposed to work, no instructions and reliability about it given though. And you have to pre-create partitions for each iso if I understood it correctly.

[@declanomad]

This looks good. I'll give it a try and see if I can free up a few USB sticks. By the looks of it I can use this to multiboot between different ISOs and tools like Gparted, WinRE and Clonezilla on a single USB.

[@f_aaris]

Hey Titus, think you could update your Linux zsh customisation guide? It looks a bit different than the video and I'd love to make it look like yours!

[@maurolimaok]

This configuration of your terminal is AWESOME! I'm a newbie from Brazil. Any tips of how to. Despite I'm on my first steps on TI on 56yo, I believe this kind of visualization makes easier to do the tasks. In time, thanks for the channel and the useful videos.

[@CarterPersall]

The only thing I don’t like about ventoy is that it seems to not want to detect and boot from vhd files and the lack of a folder system can make having lots of isos pretty annoying. What I do to get around this is I use ventoy to boot into grubfm to then boot from my vhds.(No idea if vhd booting has been added or not as I haven’t checked in a few months) Also grubfm can also patch and boot into winpe just from a windows setup iso which might be useful.

[@robbieboyable]

I think they added VHD support!

[@quesengar]

What are your thoughts on medicat? It uses ventoy and comes with several iso and apps to fix computers that are down.

[@michaelpalmer2143]

I've been using Ventoy for a few months now to install and repair both Linux and Windows machines. I love it. One thing you could have shown was alternate grub themes. The default Ventoy theme is kinda ugly.

[@lepricated]

I use parted magic all the time. love it

[@RIP123]

You bought it?

[@codebeat4192]

I just discovered Vintoy and I am very impressed. Actually, Yumi is using a branche of Vintoy. What I really want is folders in the menu, is this possible? That would be very handy to categorize the contents of the disc instead of a long list.

[@George_K1]

So, Let us say you install Ventoy on a really FAST SSD... Can you LOAD a WINDOWS VHD(X) DISK which is an actual running bootable O/S. - In other words can you run Windows from Ventoy ? Let us say your boot Hard drive fails but you have it backed up to VHD(x) file... Can you successfully boot Your failed Hard drive VHD(x) backup in Ventoy?

[@divyanshugogna6152]

Hey Chris do you know how to install it on SSD ( bootable drive on same disk as bootable disk 0 ?, Different partition on same disk )?? Thanks

[@Giantmidgetmotochannel]

Good suggestions for the ISO’s btw your ram are in the wrong slots, supposed to be in a2 & b2.

[@sokoloft3]

Hmm. Wonder if I could make this fix my UEFI issue. Whenever I swap a drive it doesn't see the grub loader and I have to type it into the UEFI shell.

[@GameBacardi]

@ Chris Titus Tech How uninstall Windows 10 update which bring into taskbar "news" ad ?

[@georgeyoung108]

Do you know if I can put Medicat on my Ventoy thumb drive along side of Hiren's and other ISOs?

[@diginomad6016]

I watched the video and it went to the next video, I came back to like this one.

[@nickiebanchou]

Ventoy is awesome , but my USB sticks are made of MEDICAT, it's a ventoy "distro" in a way made by one single gbatemp member :D

[@Desensitized_Virus]

What terminal is that?? I love it and I need it in my life 😖

[@nicolaslavinicki4029]

I had problems using Ventoy with Open Media Vault. Cannot install. I don't know if it's working now.

[@xade8381]

using ventoy since a year , its the best

[@donny_bahama]

One thing you missed is legacy boot. Does Ventoy support both UEFI and older legacy systems?

[@gttarus1]

Is there a way to set it up with pxe booting?

[@DevilbyMoonlight]

It truly is a great tool, but 1 issue I am having with ventoy is it doesnt like any changes to its disk structure, so no extra partitions on the usb drive are tolerated, I put it on a 2TB usb3 and as I use clonezilla as a universal backup tool, I'd rather it write the image it to a different partition on the same disk formatted as NTFS for obvious reasons -- it would be perfect if it could allow for an extra partition @ setup for now it means I carry a thumb drive and the 2TB drive around with me as the ventoy partition appears to be read--only after launching clonezilla

[@rekcah]

what's the zsh theme, it looks amazing

[@LeeMyers-Jr]

I have ventoy installed on an m.2 in and external USB connected case.

[@ArthurBrownsupastar]

Can I substitute a 1 tb external SSD hard drive if I don't have a USB drive?

[@lucasew]

On ventoy you can even create persistent volumes without any partitioning. Very nice.

[@riyazs2frod]

i have live usb of linuxmint. but it is not persistent. so unable to make any changes to grub file. please let me know how to persist

[@Amr0d]

Is there something similar to Parted Magic but for free?

[@jamestiller]

ventoy plus parted vmagic is just that, magic

[@lorenz681]

Ventoy used to work with chrome flex when it came as a .img file, now flex comes as a .bin file, any suggestions?

[@cowboy6591]

My dell shoots a "No Signature Error" with ventoy every time. Went through the steps at ventoy site and all I get is a grub prompt, no boot menu select as shown.

[@LucianMihaiPurici]

Hey Chris, I like the video...! Notice that your Recommendations Link are not working...!

[@FlyboyHelosim]

Well I was a big fan of Ventoy until I just tried to update it and there was an error which resulted in the USB becoming corrupt and wiped all my ISO files.

[@RobsonLuizRL]

For sure, Ventoy is very good!

[@dannymontgomery5994]

Link seems to be broken for Parted Magic.

[@RickRomig]

I have yet t get Ventoy to work on any of my systems. Once I select the ISO, all a get is a blank screen and a flashing cursor. Have tried BIOS in UEFI and Legacy Mode, same results. Secure boot is disabled. Haven't been able to find any answers.

[@vitoru1000]

My only problem with ventoy and yumi is suport for old bios, in that case I need rufus, the only one that works for me

[@sinnednima1028]

Let those systems finally die. These systems are more than a decade old and uefi/efi is around since 2006. In 2010 it started to succeed bios.

[@NikkiSatmaka]

How do you record your bios?

[@beer_goggler]

Does anyone know of a good free tool I can boot from Ventoy that can easily allow adding UEFI entries? I have a cranky HP and the bios doesn't have a feature to manually add entries and Windows keeps f*cking up the Linux ones. Also has Windows 21H1 changed the default partitioning scheme like to just 2 partitions?

[@peterjansen4826]

Is Parted Magic based on Slackware? Cool!

[@dopeonplastic369]

Ventoy is great, i use it since ... when i see it in your how to´s ;-)

[@maurizioferreira4721]

Unfortunately it seems not to work with Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 (lmde-4-cinnamon-64bit.iso) The grub menu is displayed, you can start the OS, after a while the screen blanks, it remains only the blinking cursor on a black screen, and nothing happens.

[@nootics]

You might wanna check the website, they have a list of OSes that do or don't work. For example, NomadBSD does not work with ventoy from my testing and according to the list

[@dianaalyssa8726]

Thanks

[@Gustavo_St]

How can I boot an ISO made for BIOS to boot on UEFI systems? I could not manage to have Ventoy solve that. I have a bunch of really good boot utility ISOs that are old and won’t boot on newer UEFI systems.

[@Amogh-Dongre]

I would highly recommend exa to ls look colourful

[@BobDoe_69]

I am actually waiting on my 128gig usb to arrive. My ventory will load up with hirencd if you remember that and a whole lot of tools from times of old when windows used to crap its pants every other week. Mainly for friends and family. My windows partition is highly customised to be as unbreakable as possible

[@theonlyonerzk]

i recommend Sergei strelec winpe, it's better

[@infotruther]

An i use ventoy on a mac?

[@RocknRolfHamburg]

lol I just play around with ventoy for the last 2-3 hours :D

[@carlosdantenicolasdelafuen1293]

Gracias 👏👏👏👍

[@Teknoist]

I use portable SSD work amazing few min and install any iso or run on sdd

[@abcdefghijklmkopqrstuvwxyz6821]

make a video on how to add persistence thank you

[@linuxstreamer8910]

here is a tip if you want to use a different grub theme learned it fro ThioJoe make a folder call it ventoy in that folder make another folder called themes and put your grub theme there but in the folder called ventoy you need to make a text document called ventoy.json these are the line you you need to add { "theme": { "file": "ventoy/theme/Vimix/theme.txt" } } replace the Vimix line with whatever theme you use i used Stylish edit themes does not work anymore on 1.0.45

[@ronwike524]

Ventoy makes all the predecessors obsolete. I would be nice to have gparted and/or Rescatux integrated with it on the bottom menu.

[@STEELFOX2000]

I still prefer paragon for disk partition and management,you don't need to backup data to manage partitions, your best option if you don't have time to backup. But the golem rule: always backup still apply.

[@zamaelz117]

Which is the best software for cloning hhd to another one? Thanks

[@AlaKernel]

search clonezilla .

[@mikehensley78]

@@AlaKernel +1 clonezilla

[@xenu57]

love it

[@seggaeman]

Ventoy is a bit disappointing. It works fine with a B450 motherboard, but on an older H67 one I get a black screen with a white cursor (unless I boot in BIOS mode instead of UEFI). Another multiboot USB tool called AIO Boot did the job better.

[@linuxstreamer8910]

think gonna make a 128gb usb stick with ventoy i have 50gb of linux distro's

[@act.13.41]

The ability to just swap an ISO to a newer version on the fly is like a dream come true for techies. Just delete the old ISO and drop in the new one. You're done. Simply an amazing tool.

[@benoit.gerin-lajoie]

Where do you put the isos ? in a specific folder or directly in the root of the key ?

[@act.13.41]

@@benoit.gerin-lajoie I just drop them in the root. Since I also have ISOs from Acronis on there, I put drive image files in a folder to keep the list shorter and easier to manage.

[@act.13.41]

@@benoit.gerin-lajoie It only take a bit of time playing with it to come to the thought of "Why didn't I come up with this idea? It's great."

[@benoit.gerin-lajoie]

In short, we can create folders and sort our isos in them and Ventoy will display our folders !?

[@act.13.41]

@@benoit.gerin-lajoie I have not put ISOs into any folders, so I cannot say. All my ISOs are in the root. I just know that you can add, delete, replace any ISO and on the next boot, the list is there and you just select the one you want to boot from.

[@marcelbolby8146]

how to install da vinci resolve 17

[@Ms.Robot.]

Nice ❤️ maybe you can show me how to use.