Tried ventoy on a new 2tb ssd
https://www.ventoy.n...n/download.html
ventoy-1.0.91-windows.zip 2023-04-05 15 MB
Thanks for all documentation put up. Very helpful.
In trying to find how to use it on a usb drive. I had to read that the Ventoy2Disk.exe was to be used to start the process.
In reading the description about what ventoy can do to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files
So i tested some files . Some ISOs booted fine others didnt.
The thing that interested me was booting VHD or VHD(x) growable image.
I tried a Trimmed down WIndows 11 installed on Vmware..
So in order to get the boot VHD(x) file Needed by Ventoy. The Vmware vmdk file had to be converted to VHD or VHD(x).
In the final chase the chosen app was "StarWind V2V Converter" . It has many options to pick from.
StarWind V2V Converter (VERY USER Friendly. THANKS!)
Select location of image
local file
For File name : Open file image using the right side button
location of destination
Local File
Image format
VHD/VHDX
vhdx growable image
if you have problems booting in ventoy. you can come back and create a new vhdx and select the option to Activate Windows repair mode option at the bottom. I didnt and it booted and fixed itself.
Ran into a problem that ventoy would not see VHD or VHDX file. So in reading it turns out its not included in the installer of ventoy and a file ventoy_vhdboot.img needs to be put in a ventoy folder in the ventoy drive. Retest and the files showed up. Booted the VHDX and it worked.
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Another test. found that by default Ventoy formats the drive in Exfat. So i tried to convert the drive into NTFS because in reading one of the articles it said I need that NTFS.
Found out that converting a drive from exfat to NTFS without damage to data in not possible as of this wring in 2023 using free or other methods. The only way to do it was thru moving all data to a new drive.Then you can Format the whole EXFAT Partition into NTFS. You can leave the ventoy partition where it is. So i moved all the stuff back and forth using FreeFileSync old version upon someone else's recommendation and it worked. Made it easy to synch folders and files.
Tried to boot into ventoy and it worked to the part to where it creates the list. It stayed there for a loooooooooooooooooooooong time I think I had nearly 400GB of data on the drive..
Before the move it didnt seem to have a problem creating a list.
So i tried to find if you could negate searching to folders that had nothing to do with ventoy.
Read about creating a file called .ventoyignore with no name and just an extension to exclude certain folders
That seemed to work. The list was created.
At this point I booted an iso pe and booted.
But then I was looking for the VHD folder to boot from, No such thing showing
In doing some more reading and for some reason or and another I created a Ventoy folder within the ventoy folder
Such as G:\ventoy\ventoy
At first the first ventoy worked. After the move of files the above seems to work
then ventoy_vhdboot.img was moved to
G:\ventoy\ventoy
Once again Ventoy booted the vhdx file.
Weird!
Ive notice you cant boot Windows 95 ,98,XP,ME vhds