
We’ll be using software called Ventoy ( which lets you install multiple operating systems on the same stick (it supports around 750, including hundreds of Linux systems). You can then use that to boot your PC and may be able to reinstall the operating system, depending on the state of your hard drive. Here, we’ll show you how you can use it to make a bootable USB stick and copy across the Windows 10/11 installation files. The trouble is, without anticipating a system collapse and getting your toolkit ready, a breakdown of this kind will plunge you into a Catch-22 situation: you won’t be able to use your PC to compile the tools required to fix it.īut all is not lost if you have an Android phone or tablet. Download the Windows 10 installation file.Check whether your phone supports USB OTG.Wait for at least a minute after the operation has been completed to make sure that the USB pen drive is not writing changes, then re-attach your USB pen drive and close the Ventoy web tool. Select the USB pen drive from the list that you want to use for the Windows 11 installation and click on Install.Ĭonfirm your action by clicking on Continue twice. If the connection has failed, then double check that VentoyWeb is still running in the terminal window. Open Firefox (if not open yet as you are reading this page, haha) and navigate to. You have been warned! Step 3: Flash Ventoy on the USB pen drive Now be sure that you have a double back-up of all the USB pen drive’s content as the application will completely remove everything on the USB pen drive. Open a terminal window (CTRL+ALT+T) and run: cd ventoy* –> ventoy- (version) to your home folder. Once you have downloaded the file, extract the inner folder –>.


The file that should be downloaded ends with tar.gz. It is recommended to download the latest version. Now that the Windows 11 image is downloading, we have to download the tar.gz file from Ventoy’s website.
