Ventoy comes with legacy UEFI Secure Boot support and has been tested with over 260 ISO files, including Debian, Ubuntu (and its variants), CentOS, RHEL, Deepin, Fedora, SLES, openSUSE, MX Linux, Manjaro, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop! _OS, Solus OS, Zorin OS, Arch Linux, Puppy Linux, Tails, Slax, Kali Linux, Mageia, Slackware, Gentoo, NixOS, ALT Linux, KDE Neon and many other Linux distributions, as well as Windows 7, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows Server If you want to use the same USB drive to download the ISO, all you have to do is copy the ISO file (or several ISOs) to USB and boot from it. Delete all ISO files from it and use it as a regular USB drive (Ventoy takes up only a few MB of space and is not visible when the USB drive is connected). To use the entire USB drive for other purposes, you do not need to format it. Once Ventoy is installed on a USB stick, this USB drive can be used to download the ISO files that you copy to it, but you can also copy other files to it, and this will not affect the operation of Ventoy. It is worth noting that you can continue to use the USB drive for other purposes.

You can even create a multiboot USB drive by adding the ISO files of several Linux and Windows distributions to one USB, as shown in the screenshot at the top of this page. When copying multiple ISO images to a USB drive, Ventoy provides a boot menu from where you can choose which ISO to boot from. It has a graphical user interface only on Windows on Linux, you will need to use it from the command line. The application is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux. You install this tool on a USB stick, then just copy the ISO images to the USB stick and you can boot from it without any other changes (so there is no need to reformat the USB stick every time you want to create a bootable USB stick, and without having to extract the contents of the ISO file). Ventoy is a fairly new open source tool for creating bootable USB drives using Linux or Microsoft Windows ISO files.

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