Thursday, May 8, 2025

Visit the official Ventoy website and download the latest release.
Launch Ventoy2Disk and install it to your USB drive or external SSD.
Enable Secure Boot support during installation (check the box in the installer).

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

IODD Encrypted External Drive;

VHD/RMD Creation

Use the VHD_Tool+ that you can download from the IODD website:
http://iodd.kr/wordpress
Open and run the VHD Tool+, and click on the "Create" tab. That will switch the program to its VHD "Create" function, where you will be able to create a blank/empty VHD on your IODD drive that you will later apply/"burn" a disk image to.

When you click on the folder icon to "browse for a VHD" you actually just need to type in the name of the VHD that you would like to create, and then continue like you are going to "open" that new VHD; even though it is not actually there. Trust me, it will work.

Next, you want to make sure the VHD file that you are creating is larger than the ISO that you will be applying to that VHD. The ISO has to be able to fit fully decompressed. So if your ISO is still in a ZIP file, decompress it and go 1GB above its folder properties listed size.
Once the VHD is created on your IODD drive, you need to actually mount that blank VHD to your computer.
With the IODD drive connected to your computer, navigate to where the VHD is stored using the screen/menus on the IODD itself, and mount the empty/new VHD file through the drive, and your computer will detect and pop-up that it has found a drive that needs to be formatted.
Don't format the drive! Just close out the notification and close any explorer windows that may have opened.
Now, using a program such as Rufus, you can "burn" or apply an ISO disk image to the new/empty VHD that you just mounted to your system!
Burn the disk image just like you are creating a bootable USB or DVD; nothing special needs to be done to make things work.
Lastly, to create an RMD of the VHD you just created, simply make a copy of the VHD file (so you have two) and simply change the copy's file extension from *.vhd to *.rmd

That's it!

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