Alternative to Rufus for Windows 11 TPM

JimB on 05/03/2024 - 15:43

My SSD crashed so needed to buy new SSD and reinstall Windows 11.

PC is 6th Gen i5 so not TPM compatible.

Previously used Rufus to install Windows 11. So used Rufus again to create bootable USB with Windows 11 ISO .

This time, I kept getting error warnings on corrupted files when installing Win 11.

hmmmm so I downloaded Windows 11 ISO again and wrote over the USB stick to create bootable stick.

Again corrupted error message when installing windows.

Start pulling my hair out.

Read about Ventoy and tried it with the Win 11 ISO. Installed just fine.

What is quite interesting is that you create a bootable USB Stick Ventoy first and then you copy the ISO onto the drive. So you can use the same USB stick to have multiple ISO's.

Ventoy has it's own boot up menu, you select the ISO you wish to boot from.

Ventoy also took care of the TPM issue.. didn't even ask …..

Anyway, I created this post in case someone finds this useful (and to remind myself in a couple of years if I need to install)

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Comments

  • grog on 05/03/2024 - 15:47
    +2

    Bloody ripper Jim tks

  • mantra on 05/03/2024 - 15:56
    +2

    worth checking out medicat which comes with ventoy built-in (21GB)

    • JimB on 05/03/2024 - 20:12

      I’ll check it out. Seems to have lots of features.

      Thanks!

    • USER DC on 05/03/2024 - 20:24

      Not worth it, you hardly ever need any of the that things from there, its just space occupying stuff.

      You are much better of getting your own ISO's and building a custom ventoy yourself, (say add aomei partition, aomei backupper's iso files, along with windows 11 ISO, some debian/Mint/ubuntu ISO, and may be a antivirus Iso too (which i dont really have searched on how easy is it to get one but I know its included in medicat).

      Also keep in mind I think that medicat will take up entire disk space, and render all the remaining space in USB fully useless, (if you try to make another parition you can break the partition table and booting functionality). There was a video before where a guy showed using alex's image tool to burn the USB to a .img file (usable by ventoy). so presessumably you could get an entire image of the medicat usb and put that 28 GB or 30 GB or whatever the USB size was .img file to another ventoy USB.

  • smashman42 on 05/03/2024 - 15:58
    +1

    That's cool, as a rufus user for a crapload of bootable USB junk this sounds fantastic

    • JimB on 05/03/2024 - 20:13

      Yeah that’s what I’m thinking. 1 usb stick to rule them all.

  • CyberMurning on 05/03/2024 - 16:16

    so can i also install iso for ms office 2021 with ventoy? it doesnt need to be bootable.

    • JimB on 05/03/2024 - 20:06

      Not sure, but I don’t think so, because if you don’t boot from it, you only see the iso files within windows

  • GordonD on 05/03/2024 - 16:31
    +1

    I kept getting error warnings on corrupted files when installing Win 11

    Use Rufus regularly. Never ever had this problem. If I did I'd think it more likely it was due to the USB drive rather than Rufus.

    I use small M.2 SSDs, ones too small to be useful in a PC, and a USB to M.2 adapter with Rufus. M.2 SSDs are more likely to be reliable that USB drives, especially cheap ones. On one hand being able to put all my ISOs on one drive is attractive, but there'd be the risk of it dying or being corrupted and losing everything.

    Flash memory has the reputation of not being able to be left unused for a long time and still working first time. Especially cheap USB drive flash memory.

    • JimB on 05/03/2024 - 20:09

      I’ve used Rufus successfully previously just not this time for whatever reason.

      I created a Ventoy bootable drive from the same Kingston USB stick and it worked.

      Not saying that Rufus is bad or doesn’t work, but Ventoy is an alternative that seems to have some good features.

    • USER DC on 05/03/2024 - 20:30

      Ventoy needs the SECURE BOOT disabled, that is likely why you kept receiving the error messages.

      There are likely going to be scenario's where you wont be able to use ventoy (think of super old hardware), or where one doesnt have a keyboard connect at boot to select the booting ISO.

  • USER DC on 05/03/2024 - 19:33
    +2

    haha ventoy, the one and only tool you need for most ISO's (will never need to burn any ISO ever again, given you stick to PC's, Laptops only and WINDOWS/LINUX ISOs only)

    • CyberMurning on 05/03/2024 - 20:09

      @USER DC do you think i can install ms office 2021 iso file with ventoy?

      • USER DC on 05/03/2024 - 20:13

        Okay let's brake it down

        1. installing ms office 2021 Iso file is your goal.
        2. I assume you are using windows
        3. You are probably using windows 10 or higher
        4. You got the ISO file of the office already ? and put it on the USB.
        5. you should then be able to just double click ISO and Windows 10 or higher (or Windows 8 as well I think) just mount that ISO itself as a CD/DVD.
        6. Once mounted you can open the CD/DVD drive and click on the setup.exe or whatever the executable file you want to run (be .bat or .msi or whatever)

        At the end for this specific your situation it wont matter at all wheather you store ISO on USB or a local windows directory, end result will be same (that windows auto mount that ISO file and you click that setup.exe for installation).

        But this all being said you should not be using ISO to install office IMO, rather the official MS setup, config files (I think its called Office deployment tool) - https://config.office.com/deploymentsettings - Bonus tip this way you can like exclude the bloatware from office (publisher, groove access, skype etc. to be installed)

        • CyberMurning on 05/03/2024 - 20:43

          ah thanks didnt know that auto mount iso feature! i used to burn iso to cd and then run it from cd reader lol…
          wow didnt know that deployment ok will try that
          cheers!

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