I know you haven't added that support yet because you don't want a headache with users losing their data and blaming you, but I don't see why not adding a parameter to resize and install Ventoy keeping current data. You just need to make it clear that the user is responsible for any data loss. Today I did it manually on my external HD and it worked perfectly, if anyone wants to try it, here are the instructions:

To boot with UEFI:

1. Install Ventoy on any flash drive and make a dd backup of the second partition EFI that Ventoy created on the flash drive
   
   Code:

   sudo dd if=/path/to/the/part2/of/ventoy/flash/drive of=part2-EFI.img
   
   
2. Resize the NTFS partition of the external HD using Gparted or any similar tool, leaving 32MB at the end of the disk and then create an ext4 partition in that space (on the first attempt Gparted failed because my NTFS partition had some errors, I had to restart on Windows first and run the command "chkdsk /f /x H:" on my external HD to correct these errors).
   
3. Restore the dd backup of the second partition EFI on the second partition that you created before
   
   Code:

   sudo dd if=part2-EFI.img of=/path/to/the/part2/of/external/hd
   
   

1. First you need to follow all the steps for UEFI
   
2. Backup the first 1MiB of a flash drive created by Ventoy
   
   Code:

   sudo dd if=/path/to/ventoy/flash/drive of=VentoyMBRandGAP.img bs=1MiB count=1
   
   
3. Backup the original MBR of the external HD as a precaution in case something goes wrong
   
   Code:

   sudo dd if=/path/to/external/hd of=OriginalMBRandGAP.img bs=1MiB count=1
   
   
4. Backup the original partition table of the external HD
   
   Code:

   sudo dd if=/path/to/external/hd of=OriginalPartitionTable.img skip=446 bs=1 count=64
   
   
5. First you have to check by GParted that your first partition starts in sector 2048 (1048576 bytes). If yes, you can restore the VentoyMBRandGAP.img to the external HD
   
   Code:

   sudo dd if=VentoyMBRandGAP.img of=/path/to/external/hd bs=1MiB count=1
   
   
6. Restore his original partition table
   
   Code:

   sudo dd if=OriginalPartitionTable.img of=/path/to/external/hd seek=446 bs=1 count=64
   
   
7. Use fdisk to change the partition 2 type and set the boot flag (you need to paste all lines at once on terminal and press enter)
   
   Code:

   echo "t
2
ef
a
1
w" | sudo fdisk /path/to/external/hd
   
   

The most common failure I find for isos is "No bootfile found for UEFI!  Maybe the image does not support X64 UEFI."

Is there  a workaround?

-----Paul-----

I have a PC a rather old Advent laptop with Intel Dual-Core T3200 64 bit processor.
I can use Etcher to put a Linux Mint iso onto a USB stick and get the PC to boot from it
However, if I reformat the USB with Ventoy (1.0.10) and put the Linux Mint ISO on it, the PC will not boot from it. It doesn't show the Ventoy selection menu, it just moves onto the next bootable device.
If I use this USB with Ventoy on a different PC, it boots Ventoy and then Linux Mint without a problem.

Clearly the PC can handle the USB stick.
Also, the Ventoy installation on the stick is OK.
But, the PC is unable to handle Ventoy as a bootable media.

Any suggestions how to find out what is wrong?

Hi, everything worked fine , but after removing flash, on net start it cnanot boot - "..not such operating system..." and went to rescue mode. How recover FaT partition not afecting fist one?
Tank You!

(05-19-2020, 07:48 AM)iliyan_pi Wrote: Hi, everything worked fine , but after removing flash, on net start it cnanot boot - "..not such operating system..." and went to rescue mode. How recover FaT partition not afecting fist one?
Tank You!

Hello Support-Team,

i want to change the Ventory theme.
I have Extract this theme, which i from this website downloaded

https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1342054/sta...ze=1271976

unfortunately i can't see the theme changes when booting the USB Drive.
have I done something wrong?

attached are screenshots, theme.txt and ventory json files.
Thanks in advance

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installation failed and system crashed

https://voyagerlive.org/voyager-xe-20-04-lts/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/voyager...o/download

hp envy x360 i5

This version was installed on my pc without problems
https://voyagerlive.org/voyager-pc-tablette-2-en-1/

thanks ventoy

Hey, thanks for a great tool that's much more user friendly to use than what I've been using previously.

Been testing it out and for the most part it works great, but Ubuntu Studio 20.04 does not boot.

Hi,

is there any chance to install Ventoy to HDD (SSD)? If possible in UEFI mode.

I have a Computer here, which is only for testing and Data-Recovery, so I use a bunch of Tools. It would be nice to do this from Hard-Drive and not from the USB-Pendrive.

Thanks for your help.

Hi,

Can you please add support for MiniTool PowerDataRecovery 6.8 live CD?
It's based on ubuntu 12.04 if I remember well, and it's a very effective piece of software.

Now after select the ISO, the CD boot's show the first part of booting process and after black screen without any message or instructions.


 

win8.1，win10 ISO不可用，win7，win xp均可以。WinPE（基于8.1和10的）均可以
不可用的表现均为：在press any key to install from DVD之后，出现视窗图标无反应，没有下方额滚动圆圈出现。
Ventoy是1.0.0.9
电脑是thinkpad T420