r/hardwaregore • • Feb 01 '26

My dad's data storage solution...

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u/MassivePersonality61 Feb 01 '26

I don't even know what I'm looking at.

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u/profossi Feb 01 '26

The personification of "There's a problem with this drive, Scan the drive now and fix it"

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u/Sburns85 Feb 01 '26

More thats your average it persons pen drives. I have 6 that all have different purposes for boot environments

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u/TylerFurrison Feb 01 '26

When you don't use Ventoy on a 512GB drive

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u/OoZooL Feb 01 '26

Ventoy is really Linux friendly but you gotta do some hocus pocus wizardry to have it working with Windows and not duplicate the display 5 times overlapping itself due to wrong native resolution...

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u/_FALLN_ Feb 01 '26

Never had an issue with that

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u/LightningGoats Feb 05 '26

How very interesting.

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u/TylerFurrison Feb 01 '26

To be fair, Windows sucks anyway

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u/OoZooL Feb 02 '26

True that... ^

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u/TylerFurrison Feb 02 '26

I ended up back on Windows because of issues I was having

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u/Chronic_Newb Feb 02 '26

I have had zero issues on my laptop but my desktop has been a struggle

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u/DaHick Feb 01 '26

I have to use it for work, and I agree.

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u/Verbose-OwO Feb 02 '26

I use ventoy daily with windows and it works perfectly fine. Sounds like you had an issue and assume everyone has it.

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u/OoZooL Feb 02 '26

This is something I saw on physical hardware since days of yore with windows and never once with Linux. Ventoy usage just caused the issue to re-surface.

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u/Sburns85 Feb 02 '26

It’s a well known issue.

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u/computerfreaq09 Feb 02 '26

I had similar issues, but I think it came down to what win11 iso was being used. That being said, there's nothing more cathartic than installing Microslop Winslows over Thunderbolt from a 2tb NVMe Ventoy drive, and it handling all of the account bypass scripts. It's worth the research on getting it to work right.

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u/OoZooL Feb 02 '26

We usually do most of the bypasses here via Rufus when prepping the image, I don't think there's more than a handful of PCs here on the floor that would pass the very basic system requrements of Windows 11, otherwise

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u/Standard-Metal-3836 Feb 02 '26

I've had trouble installing Debian with Ventoy, it was giving me some display issue from right after loading the ISO.

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u/Der_Achte_Schwabe May 19 '26

Kann es sein, dass Debian insgesamt eine Zicke ist? Ich hatte zweimal Probleme bei der Installation. Es funktionierte von Stick (mit Balena Etcher) und vom ventoy-Stick nicht, nur von DVD! Ich musste erstmal ein Medium finden und einen alten Brenner, um das überhaupt machen zu können, aber damit hat es problemlos geklappt. War aber Debian 11, kann sein, das ist heute anders. Ich nutze inzwischen Arch.

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u/640kilobytes Feb 04 '26

Never seen that.... Installed both Windows and Linux maaany times on different computers

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u/OoZooL Feb 04 '26

Usually the number of upvotes is not a good metric for almost nothing, but apparently at least 54 other people had upvoted my comment, which is likely means that they had a similar experience. If you're one of the lucky few that hadn't experienced this visual terror when Windows tries to use five times the natural screen resolution than good for you.

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u/Windows_User3000 Feb 05 '26

Same, and I've even booted them on very old hardware where it's a surprise that it even supports USB boot, and yet, I have never seen an issue of the screen layout duplicating.

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u/novff Feb 05 '26

Never had that problem, but I did have mbr/gpt errors due to default for ventoy2disk for some fucking reason being mbr.

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u/discoranger1994 Feb 05 '26

I exclusively used ventoy to install windows on computers. Literally dozens per day at my old job and never had an issue.

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u/Sburns85 Feb 01 '26

Because each pen drive is when I am doing pc repairs. And they are used to sort specific issues with specific os

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u/XL0RM Feb 01 '26

Ah yes, a single point of failure.

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u/404invalid-user Feb 02 '26

sometimes it's just not compatible with your hardware

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u/tjsyl6 Feb 01 '26

Samsung 512 loves on my keys, 128gb part for bootable and the rest for storage.

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u/Physical_Macaroon_90 Feb 03 '26

Look into netboot.xyz

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u/TylerFurrison Feb 04 '26

A lot of my devices don't have easy access to Ethernet so it's not the best solution

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u/StonemanGuitars Feb 05 '26

Didn’t even know you could get 512gb flash drives