i’ve had bad experience with Ventoy both at work and at home with a windows installation.
if you have access to a windows PC,windows media creation tool works best(but i don’t know how it behaves with dual boot installations).
or plenty of tutorials up in this thread.
Exactly what went wrong?
You - and perhaps we as well - are going by the assumption that the windows.iso was downloaded and stored without errors.
And that the writing process to the USB drive also went flawless.
… was it really?
I wanted to test
but
I only have a 4 GB USB drive
The Windows 10 iso is 5,8 GB
ls -hl Win10_22H2_EnglishInternational_x64v1.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jo jo 5,8G Feb 24 15:02 Win10_22H2_EnglishInternational_x64v1.iso
it won’t fit - so I can’t try …
in a VM environment it boots perfectly fine
If it is an .iso - dd should work
as should the much simpler cp …
Ventoy is probably the easiest option … it has never failed me.
nothing horrible,it just won’t install or have issues where the MCT worked perfectly.
I dare say, nothing specifically related to Ventoy.
specific in the fact that it didn’t work for me on multiple occasions.
but it seems to be fine by most.
But, what … exactly … didn’t work?
Describe the process you used for it not to work.
Note that there are any number of reasons Ventoy might ‘not work’ that have nothing to do with Ventoy. For example, the USB used might be failing, or the correct configuration wasn’t used when creating the Ventoy USB, or one’s hardware might be too old for booting reliably from a USB; among other possibilities.
I could say to you “I had a bad experience with my car – it didn’t work!” – but does that tell you I shouldn’t use it? No. I might have had no fuel left in the tank. I might have been too stupid to know that I needed to put the key in the ignition.
Simply saying something ‘didn’t work’ tells us nothing useful. 
Regards.
i think it’s a bit unnecessary since it’s not a Ventoy support forum or thread, and i suggested what worked best for me.
one should use whatever they like.
-at work we have a second technician who exclusively uses Ventoy.
we replaced the SSD of AIOs .
he couldn’t manage to install Windows and went as far as contacting the manufacturer support.
while me on my side who always uses MCT had no issues.
what was it? idk, he kept mentioning that no boot entry was created in the Bios or something of the sort.
me at home wanting to install Windows on a newly built PC (modern hardware) and tried using Ventoy since i had no access at that time to a Windows PC in order to use MCT.
maybe i did something wrong,but if i recall correctly i would get to the beginning of the installation,and after a step or two it i would encounter some error or the inability to proceed.
or maybe it was that after rebooting nothing happened .
that was my experience.
Cheers
I am using a small external SSD as my Installation disk since many months (or even few years). On that disk there are several ISO files, including Windows 10 and 11.
I never had a single issue booting or installing any of the ISO files on that disk, including Windows 10 or 11.
Whenever a new version is released, i simply delete the old file and copy the new ISO over. No futher hacks are required. It simply boots from the Ventoy menu.
And the Ventoy disk itself can be prepared also from a Linux device. Doesn’t need to be Windows.
I would suggest you start over with a fresh disk, proceed with all steps and then we can see what went wrong.
i have no issues and don’t need it,
and it seems OP already marked an answer as a solution.
These posts have been moved basically to clean up another thread.
It is true that some Members seemed to have difficulty with Ventoy when left to their own devices. Most I recall typically didn’t adjust the Ventoy settings properly (or at all) before writing the Ventoy USB.
There was one Support request in particular where a User didn’t understand why the Ventoy USB was empty after they had successfully written the Ventoy system to USB. I suppose they didn’t understand that Ventoy wasn’t a typical USB writer tool.
Recognising the need for a straightforward guide to using Ventoy, I authored the following “How to” as an easy to follow guide.
Link added for the benefit of passers-by;
Enjoy.
Ventoy has a quite a few updates recently
[2025-01-23T21:05:55+0000] [ALPM] upgraded ventoy (1.0.99-1 -> 1.1.00-2)
[2025-02-11T08:08:20+0000] [ALPM] upgraded ventoy (1.1.00-2 -> 1.1.01-1)
[2025-02-12T21:22:11+0000] [ALPM] upgraded ventoy (1.1.01-1 -> 1.1.02-1)
[2025-02-17T16:09:48+0000] [ALPM] upgraded ventoy (1.1.02-1 -> 1.1.02-3)
[2025-02-21T20:59:56+0000] [ALPM] upgraded ventoy (1.1.02-3 -> 1.1.03-1)
[2025-02-22T23:09:19+0000] [ALPM] upgraded ventoy (1.1.03-1 -> 1.1.04-1)
[2025-02-26T21:40:07+0000] [ALPM] upgraded ventoy (1.1.04-1 -> 1.1.05-1)
One supposes there was a point to be made; though public interest might be better served with this information;
Ventoy has had a number of bugfix releases recently
But users may not have updated USB drive to the latest version
The problem with not booting with Ventoy is related to the images.
You can always choose between modes
Manjaro often work best with grub2 mode