Ventoy – How-To

[FullScale4Me]

Ventoy – How-To PDF, 433Kb, illustrated, updated: October 3, 2025.

Excerpt below.

1 Introduction

Ventoy is a program that is installed on a USB drive, NOT on the PC system. This USB drive then can boot from any of the ISOs on the USB drive. This is a one time per USB installation of Ventoy. Ventoy eliminates having to burn each ISO to a separate USB drive.

Ventoy automatically adds ISOs of your choice to its boot menu so that you can decide which one to use for bootup. Moreover, the USB drive is not dedicated to Ventoy, you can add documents and other files without affecting the Ventoy program operation.

NOTE: after downloading, there are 3 major tasks in preparing a Ventoy USB drive prior to use:

• Running the downloaded Ventoy USB preparation installation program (section 2).
• Copying the ISOs to the Ventoy partition on the USB (section 6).
• Booting from the USB – the Ventoy ISO installer starts automatically (section 7).

There's been some confusion on the internet – mostly the blurring together of the 1st & 3rd above tasks.

More at link above ^.

Edit: formatting touchup.

[Jerry3904]

Great addition, thanks.

[Jerry3904]

Very nicely done. Couple of comments:

--Suggest a clearer organization (b/c I lost the argument flow when I read it the first couple of times, so items like downloading to Desktop then moving to Downloads -- do they need to be kept at all after being loaded on Ventoy? -- made no sense to me)

3, Ventoy instillation
3.1 Linux
3.2 Windows

--Is downloading to the Desktop folder required by Ventoy? If not the extra step of moving them to Downloads can be eliminated. And anyway, do they have to stay at all after loaded on to Ventoy?I guess this is under Windows

--Correct the header levels 7-9 so they show in the outline