2 USB Flash Drives You Should Have 

The only USB drive one need is one with VENTOY installed that allows you to directly boot in all your ISO stored on the same USB key. include STRELEC ISO and you're good to go. But I personally use an external SSD.

I've had 2 of these (128GB since 2020. Extremely good for putting Ventoy and loads of ISOs on. Highly recommended.

Thank you very much. I do have both Hirens and Medicat. I also keep Etcher in my laptop. I've been lazy recently and haven't made myself a copy of Windows. That is next. You're reminding me to get going. Thank you very much.

Great post. Didn't know Hiren's had updated so downloading that now 👍

Wish I could give you two thumbs up Brian. Great work. Great tools. Thank you.

Great information, Thanks. I have one big small request though if you may, can you demo in full detail how do I install, run, and operate Linux and windows on a windows laptop. I have seen many youtubers but they do not provide information in great detail as you may have guessed I am not a computer nerd, I just learn by watching videos but sometimes I get stuck in process. I will understand if you do not want to do it but if you can, it will be highly appreciable. Thanks.

I love Hiren's and have for many years. Just a suggestion, I also use Rufus to create a Windows 11 boot flash for installation rather than the Windows Media Creation Tool. When Rufus set up recognizes the ISO is for Windows some very handy switches can be set. For example to create a local account automatically.

I have an old copy of Hirens Boot PE love it I will update to the new duel boot ver.

Good video, Brian. I d/l Hiren's. The only difference is for myself I have it along with other ISO's I have on one USB using Ventoy

most helpful channel out here!

Thank you Bri for your helpful vid. Is 64gb your recommended thumb drive size?

I think it is important even for a lot of Linux users to have the Win PE version of the aforementioned USB drive. If you ever have formatted a drive in NTFS on Windows and then accessed it on Linux you may get an error that sometimes can be fixed with NTFSFIX on Linux, but is sometimes easier to fix by just booting into Windows to fix it. (It is often caused by fastboot being enabled on Windows when creating the partition, but can just be corruption) . There are other times when you can't do a task easier in Linux than Windows and sometimes cannot be done in Linux, like using Rufus to get to the advanced options for creating a Windows installation drive. There are sometimes long and convoluted ways to do the same thing in Linux but, having the drive just makes like easier.

Good video, however, I think the SAMSUNG BAR Plus 256GB - 400MB/s USB 3.1 Flash Drives are the way to go. Much, much faster and have a lot more room. That way if you want you can do persistence Linux it can be fast. I've only ever done it with YUMI though as it's easier. Never with VENTOY though which for regular USB ISO's is great. I need to figure out the persistence Linux with VENTOY though. They also make really, really smaller ones that do 400MB/s also but they are too hard to pull out, like a flush Logitech Unifying Receiver.

Great Post yet again ,is there any way to make ventoy dual boot? I always have a Hirens on hand.

I remember back in the day when Hiren's was mostly bootleg software. It's come a long way.

Please make the complete video of reducing the ongoing processes in windows 11 by using a batch file as soon as possible because I need to use it

Looks very interesting. Thank you for that. What I would like to know, however, is: will it also work on machines where Windows 11 has been installed using the patch to install Windows 11 on non-compatible systems? Thank you. Kind regards.

I have three 32 Gb USB drive scandisk brand I have one that backs up my Windows 10 and the other is for my Windows 11 and the other I transfer flies and photos from one computer to another, I will buy more, I remember to buy them when I see videos like this one. lol

Hi Brian. thanks for your helpful videos. I'm still using Windows 7, so is it possible to create 2 flash drives and follow your instructions? Any help is much appreciated.

I use Backupper to backup windows, then use the USB to restore it.

Thank you.

I used ventoy and just put the iso files on it

I would call for caution when buying any electronics from Amazon. A lot of bad actors there and you might not get what you thought you bought. Now I only buy flash drives or anything sensitive like this from a reputable shop, ideally in person. Even from Currys I thought I bought 64 gb USB drive, it said 64 on the package when it arrived, 64 on the USB itself, but it only was 32 gb. I bought it in their online shop and it was Sandisk. I also bought one like shown in this video, the 128gb, a couple years ago, on Amazon, it did seem to have that memory but something fishy was about it. Getting very hot, my radio/cd/mp3 player was skipping tracks on it when I tried to play music from the usb, and a month ago it locked itself as write protected suddenly, despite I used it days ago to store some data on it, without any such attempt from my side or any physical switch to lock it. Hammer dealt with it as I was unable to format it or anything. Youu often get what you pay for.

I usually just clone my boot drives since gen-3 M.2 NVMe storage is so cheap now. Or will be cheap again on Prime Day.

Grateful if you can provide the link for downing the above 2 USB utilities.

I have used the cd dvd image. It’s good.

I find that a lot of the USBs from Ebay fail early. Even the major brands.

Wanted to trim an external SSD in Linux but couldn't. I was able to do so with Hirens and running a USB with PortableApps version of SmartDefrag. One thing, the new Hirens BootCD PE based on 11 doesn't boot on Win11 non supported systems, and creating with Rufus can't get the workaround for writing Hirens ISO. It boots up, but I get an iaStorE.sys blue screen and it reboots to a black screen. Tried to re-download the 1.0.2 version of Hirens through Github, but the hash didn't match, so I can't use it. Still have an ISO for 1.0.1 though.

Look of this also, and do a review of MEDICAT USB 😉

Thank you for posting 👍👍

does hiren iso work with ventoy? which is faster ventoy or rufus flush?

Thanks, Brian. I always keep Windows 11 on USB drive. I downloaded Hiren's and installed it to a USB via Etcher, as I never really liked Rufus.

What I really want to see is a UEFI setting that will scan all USB ports for a bootable partion and if nothing if found THEN scan the HHDs & SSDs. This IS NOT the way most motherboards work. This allows a system to always check for a bootable USB stick, a Bootable USB storage drive or a Optical drive. Usually if a motherboard is set to boot from USB and there is no USB bootable partition found, the system just fails to boot until either a USB bootable partition is added or the UEFI serring it changed. I want this for my workstation. What most people forget is that if someone has physical access to your computer, they can just take it and then move the storage to a different computer to then bypass any O/S security it has. The only thing that can stop this scenario is to totally encrypt the storage using a separate hardware token like a Yubikey. If you need to have a system to use for computer repairs, build a cheap one that is totally unsecured. A linux/BSD UNIX system with a copy of windows running in a VM is the best way to do this. Most hardware hacking/repairs do NOT require MS Windows and anything that does can then be run in the VM. I wish I could find a persistent installation of MS windows to run from a USB stick so I could just insert a Linux stick, a Nomad stick or a MS O/S stick into a Rpi 5 sized motherboard and then just power cycle the machine to whichever stick I need to use. I'm a 64 yo retired UNIX System Administrator / Custom Software Developer from the age a UNIX Mini Computers. I used to carry around in my kit a complete list of all the MFM harddrive settings for all the makes & models of HDDs that were on the market back in the mid 80s onward. That was until PATA completely replaced the MFM drives. Now try to find a controller card that would allow a PATA drive to be added to a modern system. I only know of USB based solutions to that issue. I have over a 100 fully operational MFM & PATA HHDs left that I'm still slowly coping to optical discs.

I have got 2 Windows 11 laptops hope i can make it from the other if 1 of them get crashed?

i think i'd need someone to help me do this but would it be worth it on my old Dell optiplex? . I'm wanting to upgrade once this pc snuffs it as it's pretty old but it does what i need but would need to do this when i upgrade..although not a big upgrade.

So the Windows media creation tool doesn't overwrite the settings done by Rufus?🤔 Good to know.🍻🤠

Does it work for windows 10?

In HBCD I cannot connect wirelessly to my network.

I downloaded the portable version of Rufus. When I run it, it still wants to make changes to my computer. What gives? I thought it was portable and didn’t need to install anything?

why not just put the iso's on a ventoy flash drive?

Best thing I ever did was image my drive . You can restore you pc in a hour

The most important flash drive to have if you are a windows user is a Linux Mint install flash drive.

Is this user friendly or a steep learning curve? Im smart and very tech savvy and a quick learner, but there's still alot of computer mumbo jumbo i don't know

This problem I see with ALL content creators doing these kinds of Instructional Videos: You start by downloading Hiren's and Rufus, but the instructions are sketchy and incomplete. Then you create Windows Installation media by selecting Win 11 and your next screen shows you downloading Win 10 installation media. There was never a mention of whether or not you switched USB drives (i.e. did you put Rufus and Hiren's USB aside and insert a new flash drive for the Win installation media?). Next, without any intro, you immediately jump back to showing Hiren's on the desktop. (Did you put the Win installation USB aside and re-insert and reboot with Hirens?). This is typical instruction for ALL rescue disk videos of this type. Is there any consideration for people who have never done this and may not have the knowledge to understand what you're actually doing? Sorry to be so critical, but..... what are you doing?

I did this once and I format my flash drive and windows Wright protected my 32gb flash drive

sir, when i try to reset password the app cant find windir and sam files, there is no hdd visible on explorer too. how to fix?

Amazon kinds ether 70/30 recently Amazon selling items that could ether good deal or a scam I would double check if the USb is good enough recently gpus are getting scammed by changing the pc with a downgrades gpu and cpus as well

does it work with Windows 10.

2:10 need to push what?

Uefi is not last 6 year its last 12 year. Win 8 discount oem pricing relied on having uefi & secure boot for 8+

Why go to someone or something else for a feature that is already built into the operating system? All that you are doing is just taking up space getting something from 3rd party that Microsoft already has built into Windows. Outside of that, thanks for the thumb drive idea because you need that to have a bootable drive to create and back up your pc on.

Wow USB are so cheap nowadays.

Plot twist: the downloads come with their own malware. And the USB flash drives from Amazon come with BadUSB or similar. 🤣

I think you cannot download a Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft anymore...

good news it was a few mnths ago i was wondering if there would be a win 11 version of hirens.,

Can I just use 1 128Gb usb drive? or do I need 2 64Gb units. Thanks in advance Sir. From Aussie 🦘🦘.