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Every time I search for a USB key, I end up finding the ones flashed with OS ISOs! I don't have a normal key anymore lol
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Check out Ventoy! Unless you need a single ISO on the drive, it's just something you install to it and then copy and paste ISOs to the folder on it. No flashing needed, it runs them for you. I've got 128GB drives almost filled with every ISO I could possibly want.
Also worth mentioning you can copy more files on it afterwards and it works as normal storage too.
Also worth noting, you should create file named
.ventoyignorein the directories with other files. Otherwise Ventoy searches everything which slows it down.I'm going to do that, I didn't realize that was possible! Thanks!
I personally just set the index depth to 0 in the config so it only searches the root directory for bootable files
Note that some devices aren't able to correctly mount the second partition.
I guess this is because the first partition is used to boot ventoy, while the second partition holds data and some devices (e.g. printers) won't mount the second partition.
PS: I nearly wasn't able to hold a presentation because of this, luckily a second stick/phone/copy on web storage saved me, iirc.
This only ever really applies to devices without UIs or otherwise embedded OSs, and personally I wouldn’t trust a drive with more than a handful of files in such a device anyway.
I've definitely done that before! I'll use a Ventoy as a portable OS to test things I don't want to break my main system, then shut it down to reset to normal. It's nice to not need a second stick to bring in or save other files while doing that.