The Universal USB Installer is easy to use. Simply choose a Live Linux Distribution, the ISO file, your Flash Drive and, Click Install. Upon completion, you should have a ready to run bootable USB Flash Drive with your select operating system installed. Other features include; Persistence (if available) - note that casper persistence will only work with fat16 or fat32 formatted drives.

What's New

  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.3.6: Fixed volume label never being set after disk preparation. Fixed selected disk not being restored when returning to the drive selection page after preparation.
  • Update to use Ventoy 1.1.12 bootloader addressing the following upstream issues: Ubuntu 24.04.4 install failure. VirtualBox UEFI display issue when booting Windows. UEFI boot Windows/WinPE resolution issue. Oracle Linux 6.9 install issue.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.3.4: Update to use Ventoy 1.1.1 bootloader addressing the display issue when UEFI booting Windows/WinPE ISO.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.3.3: Fixed broken 32G persistence file for Debian.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.3.2: Added preparation menu with options for reserving unformatted space at the end of the device and selecting the storage filesystem type to use.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.3.1: Fixed Debian Persistence feature. Disable automatic update detection at runtime.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.3.0: Add an entry for AerynOS. Update to use Ventoy 1.1.10 bootloader fixing these upstream issues:
    Fixed LinuxGUI program crash issue in wayland environment. Fixed boot issue with Kylin Server V11. Fixed Windows boot issue in F2 mode. Fixed the vhd.vtoy file boot issue in ext4 file system.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.2.9: Update to use the Ventoy 1.1.09 bootloader for better OpenSuSe support.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.2.8: Update to use the Ventoy 1.1.07 bootloader, add TrueNAS, update links.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.2.7: Update to use the Ventoy 1.1.05 bootloader to address resolution issue when booting Windows, WinPE ISO in UEFI mode.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.2.6: Created Penetration Testing, Anonymous Browsers, and Tiny Linux Distros Directories. Added Void Linux, updated a few broken links.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.2.5: Allow for Unlisted .ISO or .IMG file detection under option "Try Unlisted ISO/IMG". Improve method for detecting remaining space on drive. Return to menu instead of abort if not enough space remains on drive for the selected distro.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.2.4: Update to use the Ventoy 1.0.99 bootloader. Added a feature to exclude drives from being detected by placing a blank text file named "excludedrive.txt" on the drive.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.2.3: Update to use the Ventoy 1.0.98 bootloader which provides upstream support for newer KAOS and Archlinux releases.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.2.2: Version 2.0.2.1 was corrupted and would lock up preparing drive. Added missing files.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.2.1: Updated to use Ventoy 1.0.97 bootloader which provides upstream support for Proxmox 8.1 and FreeBSD 14.0. Remove www from Pendrivelinux site links.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.2.0: Updated to 1.0.96 bootloader. Implemented conditional detection features to allow prepared drives to be displayed while running from WINE in Linux.
  • Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.1.9: Corrected an error in System::Call 'kernel32::GetDriveType(t"$preJustDrive")i.s' for removable and fixed drive detection. Added Vanilla dPup to the list of supported distros.
  • Updated to 1.0.95 bootloader. Adjusted the ISO file masking for Windows X-Lite. Fixed a few bugs in the handing of menu selections and message box returns. Automatically checks for version updates at runtime.
  • Entirely new build supports Multiboot and is based on YUMI exFAT.
  • Fix broken persistence option for Ubuntu and Linux Mint based distributions. Fix wipe and format options to only show for Windows 11, 10, 8 on selectable devices that appear as USB drives or fixed local disks.
  • Added an option to Create Multiboot USB. Experimental - not all ISO files work. For example Linux Mint and CentOS will not work with the Multiboot option.
  • Add back feature to refresh drives. Detect if running from WINE.
  • Updated option to fully Install Windows 10 or 11 on USB. Fixed Wipe and Format option.
  • Fixed to allow spaces in Windows user profile.
  • Updated to support writable persistence for Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu versions 20.04+.
  • Added Wipe option to reformat and restore a USB flash drive. Included a Try via DD option. Updated Archbang and Archlinux to use dd rawwrite method. Updated AmogOS download link.
  • Update AmogOS with persistence download link.
  • Update to support AmogOS and HDClone.
  • Re-enable the ability to run from earlier versions of Windows. Moved checkpoint to simply prevent NTFS format option from appearing on systems prior to Windows 8.
  • Quick revision to disallow (Disk 0) from being displayed.
  • Set to show Local Drives in addition to USB Drives. Included a confirmation prompt before proceeding to format a drive. Implemented a checkpoint to prevent from running if Operating System is not at least Windows 8.