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Recently downloaded Spinrite 6.1R2. Ran it on a Win 7 machine, selected "Create ISO or IMG File", saved as ISO.
Copied to a Ventoy drive. When I try to run it I get the Spinrite splash screen, then the screen goes blank with only
a flashing cursor.
I tried the same steps with 6.0 and all worked fine.
I will try burning directly to a CD to see if that works.
In the meantime, any ideas as to why 6.1R2 isn't running but 6.0 is?

UPDATE: burning the iso to a CD works fine. Guess I need to look into Ventoy......
 
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Wow that is good, I heard Leo say something about Ventoy a while ago and I had never heard of it. I set it up from a Linux laptop and and copied a linux mint, debian, Image for Linux, Windows 7 and Windows 10 ISOs to the pen drive and it worked on two of my computers. One of the them the Windows 7 installer could not find the hard drive for some reason. I was happy to hear about it because I was planning to try and use Linux more often, but I still use Windows too so that might lead to many re-installs. I tried using Ventoy on my main machine, however no mater what ISO I picked it would just lock up either on the graphical screen or with the blinking cursor. I was going to try and see if I could find a solution because I wanted to use it on my main machine. Perhaps this Easy2Boot will work without much effort, that would be nice. I also found a project called iVentoy which as I understand will boot an ISO as a pxe boot. That would be a big advantage. I am not sure if there are other projects that do what iVentoy does. Perhaps there is some way SR 6.1 can use a iVentoy type thing to do a network pxe boot. If anyone know of other solutions of putting a collection of ISOs in one place as boot media for OS installation or maintenance, we should have a list.
 
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