Bootable USB Tools

Discussions center on Ventoy and alternatives for creating bootable USB drives that support multiple ISO images without repeated reflashing, compared to traditional methods like dd or Rufus.

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Moomoomoo309 May 24, 2024 View on HN

Try Ventoy, it's a game changer for bootable USBs.

riobard Sep 20, 2011 View on HN

Hmm, burning a bootable ISO image to a USB stick seems more reasonable from time to time.

mrjin Aug 22, 2020 View on HN

This tool is fantastic. It saves me from writing different images to a usb stick when need different boot media, especially when working on windows as windows disk manage seems to have problems cleaning usb sticks with some particular iso images.

fred_is_fred Jan 10, 2018 View on HN

Wouldn't a live CD/USB also work?

steelbrain Oct 30, 2025 View on HN

Love Ventoy! I never have to flash my USBs anymore. Just keep dropping those ISO files in there. Highly recommended.

sidpatil Aug 7, 2022 View on HN

These are great for booting from USB drives on systems that are too old to support that natively.

compressedgas Nov 2, 2025 View on HN

This is an alternative to Ventoy.

ashleyn Oct 14, 2024 View on HN

Used this to boot from usb on systems that didn't support usb boot back in the day. Good stuff.

HotGarbage Nov 8, 2025 View on HN

This really should be a live-USB image instead of something you have to install

dtx1 Mar 10, 2021 View on HN

live boot from a usb stick might be better.