Recommendations for bootable ISOs to add to Ventoy

SIW2 · Nov 3, 2023

SIW2 said:
Booting from iso is different. Efisys expects bootmgr.efi on the root.

hdmi:
The root inside the Boot.wim file, yes. Not the root inside the iso file.

Try booting an iso without it. It is clear my post which you quoted refers to an iso file.

You are confusing two different things.

This iso can boot in efi mode and loads the wim

This iso does not load the wim in efi mode, it hangs on the "press any key.." message till it times out

hdmi · Nov 4, 2023

SIW2 said:
Try booting an iso without it. It is clear my post which you quoted refers to an iso file.

You are confusing two different things.

This iso can boot in efi mode and loads the wim

View attachment 76532

This iso does not load the wim in efi mode, it hangs on the "press any key.." message till it times out

View attachment 76533

Of course yes, but when I start the Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment as an administrator like explained in the docs from Microsoft and I run the following command to create my iso file:
MakeWinPEMedia /ISO C:\WinPE_amd64 "C:\WinPE_amd64\DiskGenius 5.5.1.1508 x64.iso"
...then the root inside the resulting iso file already has the bootmgr.efi in it so, I still fail to see the problem about that part.

kelper · Nov 4, 2023

SIW2 said:
If you are still struggling with this, you could use the little workaround I have illustrated several times before.

Using something like the free anyburn, edit a known working iso file (e.g. your macrium iso file ) . Replace the \sources\boot.wim in the known working iso with the boot.wim from your diskgenius usb stick. Then save the iso as a new name, e.g. diskgenius.iso

Download AnyBurn

Download AnyBurn

www.anyburn.com

View attachment 76378

Will give this a go, thanks!

It works! It boots in wimboot mode

SIW2 · Nov 4, 2023

It works!

kelper · Nov 4, 2023

I wonder why it wouldn't boot in normal mode since it was based on the Macrium iso which does?

SIW2 · Nov 4, 2023

I don't know what is happening on your system.

without using ctrl+w

if it is an iso it loads using bootmgr.efi which is on the root of the iso

if it is a wim on the usb it loads using bootx64.efi. Looks like the ventoy one will work fine.

SIW2 · Nov 4, 2023

There are several other ways to access lots of different programs from one booted winpe.

One way is to copy and paste the c:\program files\diskgenius folder onto the usb stick. Then after booting into e.g macrium winpe, use the quasi explorer to reach down to the usb stick and run diskgenius\disgenius.exe.

could do the same sort of thing with firefox browser and plenty more programs.

If there isnt a quasi explorer in whatever winpe you have booted into, can browse to the programs on the usb stick with notepad instead.

If your winpe is 64 bit, you can only run 64 bit programs that way.

I do this all the time, in a slightly more elaborate fashion. I usually include wow support and explorer etc in my winpe, then it links the programs on the usb stick to the winpe desktop.

It is handy to have them on the usb stick because it is easy to add extra programs, or change them for newer versions.

kelper · Nov 5, 2023

SIW2 said:
There are several other ways to access lots of different programs from one booted winpe.

One way is to copy and paste the c:\program files\diskgenius folder onto the usb stick. Then after booting into e.g macrium winpe, use the quasi explorer to reach down to the usb stick and run diskgenius\disgenius.exe.

could do the same sort of thing with firefox browser and plenty more programs.

I'll give this a go! Thanks.