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Ventoy 1.1.11 is an open-source utility designed to turn any USB drive into a multi-boot device capable of starting ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD(x) and EFI images without repeatedly re-formatting the stick. Instead of extracting or “burning” every image, the user simply copies the desired files—Windows installers, WinPE environments, mainstream Linux distributions, Unix variants, ChromeOS, VMware ESXi, XenServer and hundreds of lesser-known systems—to the Ventoy partition; at power-on the program presents a textual boot menu from which any entry can be launched. The same stick can therefore carry a Windows 11 setup image, several live Linux distributions and a rescue WinPE simultaneously, all selectable on the fly. Hardware coverage spans Legacy BIOS, 32-bit UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI, while both MBR and GPT partitioning schemes are honored, ensuring compatibility with very old PCs, modern Secure-Boot machines and single-board ARM devices alike. More than 1,100 ISO files have been officially verified and over 90 % of the distributions listed on distrowatch.com are known to start correctly. Because Ventoy leaves the images intact, updating to a newer build of an operating system is literally a matter of copying the new file and deleting the old one, eliminating the time-consuming rewrite cycles typical of conventional tools. The project, now in its fifteenth public release, continues to refine compatibility tables and boot work-arounds, making it a staple in IT departments, repair shops and hobbyist toolkits that need a single, reliable rescue or deployment drive. Ventoy is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources (e.g. winget), always delivering the latest version, and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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