Any time I grab a new Windows 10 ISO that’s where it goes. I currently have a nominal 256 GB (238 GB actual) NVMe SSD mounted in a Sabrent NVMe enclosure for my Ventoy drive. That includes low-level operational images such as MemTest86 for extended RAM testing. This means you can use a USB drive to store all your ISOs for Windows 10, repair, and so on. Finally, it passes boot control to that mounted ISO image. It then mounts any ISO in the Ventoy partition from a pick list. There’s enough smarts in the EFI partition to let a PC boot.

It partitions any USB drive into a 32 MB FAT EFI partition named VTOYEFI, and the rest of the drive into an exFAT partition named Ventoy. Let me briefly introduce them in upcoming sections, with links to longer explanations and information. They also quickly became incredible favorites used frequently.

This doesn’t mean the tools were first introduced in 2020: PatchMy PC has been around for some time, in fact. IMHO, my Windows 10 utilities have to be: Over the past year, I’ve worked with numerous Windows 10 tools and utilities.

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