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To take advantage of the whole USB drive for other purposes, you don't have to format it.

Once Ventoy is installed on an USB drive, that USB drive can be used to boot ISO files that you copy to it, but you can also copy other files to it, and that won't affect the operation of Ventoy. It's worth noting that you can continue to use the USB stick for other purposes. You can even create a multiboot USB drive by adding ISO files for some Linux distributions and Windows ISO files on the same USB, as seen in the screenshot at the top of this page. When copying multiple ISO files to the USB drive, Ventoy provides a menu on boot from where you can choose which ISO to boot. ] With Ventoy 1.0.52, the application comes with a GUI for Linux (it already had one for Windows). It has a graphical user interface on Windows only on Linux you'll need to use it from the command line. The application is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux. You install this tool to a USB drive, then simply copy some ISO files to the USB drive and you can boot from it with no other changes (so without having to reformat the USB drive every time you want to create a bootable USB drive, and without having to extract the ISO file contents). Now you can run the Live image without having to install it to your hard disk.Ventoy is a fairly new open source tool to create bootable USB drives using Linux or Microsoft Windows ISO files. When the operation is complete, you can eject the stick and then boot a computer from it.Confirm, and if necessary, provide your password.Select your ISO image file, and verify again that you are about to write to your USB stick device (and not your hard disk or some other device!).

Use the advanced tools at the top of Disks, which looks like a gear icon, to launch “Restore disk image.”.Unmount the stick using the “Stop” button.Select the USB stick in Disks, usually called “Generic Flash Disk.”.

If necessary, copy or move any files from the stick you want to keep as backups.

Other distributions offer hybrid live images as well. That allows them to be booted from different kinds of devices. This is because these ISO files made by the Fedora crew are hybrid style images. But did you know they can also be used to make bootable USB sticks as well? And did you further know, you can do this directly from the desktop? Fedora Live ISO images allow you to make bootable CDs and DVDs from scratch.