How to create multi-boot pen drive (Windows, Linux, utilities)

IT Support, Help Desk guise, IT Administrators will like this post very much. Because they are the people mostly facing to re-install the OSes for their users. For some IT Administrators and Help desk guise format and installing the new OS is the only option they have for every issue. So here i'm going to giving you a superb tool to make multi-boot pen drive.

What is a multi-boot pen drive. It contains number of OSes which can be boot and you can install through a menu. That's mean you don't need to maintain number of CDs or pen drives to installing OS. Using single thumb drive now you can do you job very flexibly.

Easy2Boot



This is the tool we are going to use. I tried numerous tools but all are best support with linux and other utilities. Even if they support windows they are only support older versions of windows such as XP, windows 7, Vista. But Easy2Boot Support many Linux distributions and at the same time It supports all the windows versions (server 2008 R2, 2012, 2016, windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10). And WinPE also can be include. So this is great. Let's look at how to make multi-boot usb drive.

download the Easy2Boot

Download the Easy2Boot from this link http://files.easy2boot.com/200001598-aad9babd08/Easy2Boot_v1.77ADPMS.zip

Or go to Easy2Boot official site : http://www.easy2boot.com/

Go to Download Section and Download the Download E2B+DPMS

Extract the Files in to a folder.

Extract the downloaded files into a folder. Plug your USB drive to the machine. Go to the extracted folder and run "MAKE_E2B_USB_DRIVE (run as admin)" bat file. Remember to run this in administrator permission. It will ask for format the pen drive and format it from NTFS. After format the USB it will copy the E2b files to the pen drive and press enter to exit after finished the copying.

Copy the ISO Files

Then go to your pen drive and then go to "_ISO" folder. Copy the ISO files that you needed to be installed to make bootable. Put them as Categorized in this folder. When you put some iso in "MAINMENU" folder it will goes to the main menu. Put the Windows ISOs in the "WINDOWS" folder.

Run MAKE_THIS_DRIVE_CONTIGUOUS

Now come again to your pen drive's root directory and run the  MAKE_THIS_DRIVE_CONTIGUOUS bat file. After it's done you are ready to use the pen drive as a multi-boot pen drive.


It's so simple like this using Easy2boot free tool.

Now boot your machines from this drive and check.