easy2boot.com

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Welcome to the Easy2Boot (E2B) website

Latest released version 1.97A 2017-12-23

• Want to do it all  from just one USB drive? Then why not use what the 'Techies' use?
• NEW! E2B download is now a self-extracting executable (rename to .rar for linux users) - you can make a multiboot USB drive with a few mouse clicks
• USB Flash drives or USB HDD\SSD drives supported (NTFS is recommended)
• Approx. 1000 new E2B USB drives are made every day! 
• You should never need to reformat your E2B USB drive ever again.
• Just copy over your ISOs (or delete them), a new menu is automatically created each time you boot.
• Directly boot .ISO, .IMA, .IMG, .VHD, .VHDX, .WIM, WinBuilder WinPE ISOs, etc.
• Press F1 in the E2B Menu for help.
• Over 300 different types of ISOs and payload files supported.
• Generic - unlike other solutions, there is no need to update E2B when a new version of a linux distro is released
• Multiple linux ISOs+Persistence possible (via .mnu menu files)
• Make an E2B USB drive using Windows or linux (portable - no installation to Windows required).
• Add images of other single-partition bootable USB drives (e.g. Rufus, WinsetupFromUSB, YUMI, XBOOT, etc.)
• 15+ languages for the E2B menu system
• Secure UEFI-booting is supported by using .imgPTN files.
• Use for unattended Windows installs (drivers+apps+updates+unchanged Windows Install ISO file) (SDI_CHOCO feature) - when a new version of Windows is released, simply add the new ISO!
• Update to the latest E2B version in a few seconds - no need to reformat the USB drive ever!
• Fully configurable - change wallpaper, menus entries, menu, font, behaviour, add password protection, etc.
• Compatible for use with Zalman\IODD external HDD DVD-emulators
• Tons more features! See the Feature List below...
• E2B is FREE (donationware) 

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Latest released version is E2B v1.97A (2017-12-23)  (check for new Beta versions on the Alternate Download sites). 

If you have the Windows 10 1607 or Creator update and have problems formatting as NTFS, please update E2B to latest version.
 

• Complete version history here. 
• Quick and easy to Update! No need to re-make your USB drive ever!
• Use the MPI Tool Pack to make .imgPTN files for MBR+UEFI booting (supports Secure Boot).
• Check the Alternate Download sites for the latest files and bugfix/Beta versions.
• Loads of Tutorials for different/special payloads.
• Easy2Boot YouTube videos here.
• Interested in USB booting? - visit www.rmprepusb.com for over 140 Tutorials!

 
   Press F1 on E2B Menu for Help

This site is a MESS!

Don't like the messy layout and all the annoying ads on this site?

E2B is free, but anyone who makes a donation of £5 or more, will be emailed a URL which loads the E2B and RMPrepUSB website pages quicker, has much fewer adverts per page and a much neater format (see this page for an example of the simpler web page format). If you donate £10 or more, you even get a free licence for XMLtoE2B.exe too (just ask me for it when you donate)!

E2B Feature List

• Use the large red Make E2B Drive button in Make_E2B GUI to quickly make an NTFS E2B drive (recommended).
• Make an E2B USB drive using Windows or linux (portable - no installation to Windows required).
• Removable-type USB Flash drives supported (and USB Fixed Disks but extra steps are required for some payloads).
• E2B supports FAT32, NTFS (recommended & default), ExFAT (and limited ext2/3/4) USB boot drives.
• Just copy over your ISO files (or delete them), a new menu is automatically created each time you boot. Add or remove any payload just by copying or deleting the file from the USB drive - no menu to edit, no app. needed - no need to remake it every month/week/day!
• Boot from 100's of different ISOs and images (just copy them onto the USB drive!) - over 300 different types supported.
• Add 100's of All-In-One Windows Install ISOs (convert to .imgPTN files using the Windows MPI Tool Kit).
• Add 100's of UEFI-images (e.g. Windows/Linux/KonBoot/Utilities) using .imgPTN files.
• Add 100's of full linux and WindowsToGo installations. 
• Add 100's of different linux liveCD ISOs each with persistence (>4GB persistence on NTFS is supported using ext2/3/4). 
• Boot directly from Windows .VHD and .WIM files - just copy them over. 
• Add images of other single-partition bootable USB drives (e.g. Rufus, WinsetupFromUSB, YUMI, XBOOT, etc.)
• 15+ languages for the E2B menu system (you can add your own language too).
• Secure UEFI-booting is supported by using .imgPTN files.
• Easily create fully automated Windows 7/8/10 unattend.XML files for booting from unmodified Windows Install ISO's (XMLtoE2B)
• Use for unattended Windows installs (drivers+apps+updates+unchanged Windows Install ISO file) (SDI_CHOCO feature)
• Offline unattended Windows installs (drivers+apps+updates+Windows ISO) using Chocolatey offline packages (no need to create your own app install packages).
• Update to the latest E2B version in a few seconds - no need to reformat the USB drive ever!  Updating E2B to the latest version does not change your configuration.
• Fully configurable - change wallpaper, menus entries, menu, font, behaviour, add password protection, PIN code each month, etc.
• Original linux ISO boot menu is shown - it's the same menu you get when booting from the linux CD (live, install, safe mode, memtest, etc. menu options)
• Supports multiple UEFI secure-boot payloads.
• Includes Holmes.Sherlock's PassPass for E2B to bypass Windows password entry (XP to Win10) and automated UtilMan Windows hack.
• Easily configurable using a \_ISO\MyE2B.cfg file.
• Design a custom menu using E2B_Editor.exe.
• Customise individual menu entries and each item's help text using TXT_Maker.exe.
• Compatible with Zalman ZM-VE200/350/500, IODD 2531/2541, etc. (Virtual CD)
• Add a grub2 menu system and then UEFI-boot to linux ISOs that do not normally support UEFI-booting!
• WinBuilder ISO boot support (must keep extension as .ISO) (v1.90+)
• Set the \menu.lst attribute as Hidden and then run UPDATE_E2B_DRIVE.cmd to hide files in root
• NTFS now supported under linux as well as FAT32 - use udefrag to make NTFS files contiguous (v1.85+).
• Supports animations, stamps and large fonts (v1.79+).
• Windows utility SWITCH_E2B.exe allows you to switch to any .imgPTN file from Windows - no need to MBR-boot first.
• Keep a 'Master Copy' of E2B+payload files on your Windows system and make more fully loaded E2B drives or 'clone' your E2B drive
• 30 things I bet you didn't know about E2B!

Easy2Boot YouTube videos here.

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Are you new to Easy2Boot?

If you are new to Easy2Boot, watch the videos, then use the Tabs at the side of this website. Start with the 'Make an E2B drive' page, then go to the 'Add Payload Files' page.

• 'Create Multi Windows USB Installer' YouTube video by Britec here (old method).
• E2B demo preview YouTube video by Alvaro (includes UEFI demo here).
• More YouTube videos are at the bottom of this page.
• Loads of Easy2Boot Tutorials on my blog.

Languages

Menu Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Chinese, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese (and Arabic menu text only). New languages can be easily made and added (including Persian, Urdu, Hebrew and other right-to-left languages).

Easy2Boot is a FREE collection of grub4dos scripts which are copied to a grub4dos-bootable USB drive. Each time you boot, the E2B scripts automatically find all the payload files (.ISO, .IMA, .BIN, .IMG, etc.) on the USB drive and dynamically generate the menus. Each file is run depending on the file extension of each file. 

About Easy2Boot

Read How Easy2Boot works (recommended if you want to get the best out of E2B).

• You can make a E2B drive using a Windows or linux system (not Mac).
• Easy2Boot is a collection of grub4dos scripts which you copy to a grub4dos-bootable USB drive.
• Easy2Boot uses Open Source grub4dos utilities and plain-text scripts (E2B IS NOT A WINDOWS UTILITY)
• Easy2Boot (E2B) supports both USB Flash and USB HDD drives (FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, ext2/3/4)
• Because Easy2Boot is not a 'utility', you can prepare an Easy2Boot drive under Windows or linux. Once prepared, just copy over (or delete) any ISOs you like, at any time in the future.
• You will need a Windows system to make .imgPTN files (for UEFI-booting and other purposes).
• Just add Windows (NT6) .VHD, .VHDX and .WIM files and boot! No BCD configuration file needed.
• Multiple UEFI multi-booting of linux, Windows Installers, KonBoot, etc. from partition images (see YouTube video)
• Boot  Windows, WinBuilder PE, MSDaRT, linux and many others directly from ISO files (in MBR/BIOS mode)
• Add images of all your other bootable USB Flash drives to E2B (e.g. add images of USB drives made with Rufus, XBOOT, SARDU, YUMI, Live USB drives, etc.). The .imgPTN image file is only as large as the files on the drive that you are imaging.
• Boot multiple versions of the Hirens Boot CDs with all features working (DOS, linux, MiniWindows)  + multiple HP Utilities and many others. 
• Boot to 32-bit and 64-bit UEFI mode directly from MBR mode using Clover (YouTube video)
• UEFI Secure Boot supported
• Boot multiple WindowsToGo and fully-installed linux OSs all from one partition
• Compatible with Zalman/IODD USB-HDD CD emulator (boot ISOs from the Zalman or boot to E2B menu)
• English, Chinese, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Ukranian, Greek, Vietnamese, Russian and German language options (so far...)
• Design your own menu theme using the free E2B_Editor.exe Windows GUI
• Automate Windows installs direct from an unaltered Windows ISO file with drivers, Windows updates and applications (SDI_Choco)
• No need to re-partition or re-format your existing grub4dos USB drive (though I recommend you do for maximum compatibility with different systems).
• For most ISOs just 'Drag-and-Drop' - copy your ISO file directly onto your E2B USB drive (MBR\CSM booting only) and boot!
• UEFI+CSM booting of Windows Installers and Linux LiveCD payloads via a partition image (and most other UEFI-enabled payloads too, such as KonBoot).
• Can use a USB Hard disk with one or more partitions and still UEFI boot (even if they are all NTFS partitions) - no complex GPT partitions needed.
• Boot almost ANY type of linux 'LiveCD' ISO - just copy it over! Unlike XBOOT or YUMI, you don't have to wait for Easy2Boot to be updated to support a new linux ISO distro - Easy2Boot is generic. See 'How it works'.
• Boot to any UEFI (Intel CPU) payload directly from the grub4dos menu without needing to reboot the system (via Clover).
• UEFI boot to an NTFS partition (via Clover + first FAT32 ptn).
• Also supports dual partition images - e.g. FAT32 + NTFS.
• Install Windows XP to a system from UNMODIFIED 32-bit XP install ISOs (any number of different ISOs) to a IDE\SATA\AHCI\RAID\SCSI system - no need to integrate special mass-storage or F6 drivers! Also works with Server 2003 ISOs (can be automated using answer file).
• Install directly from any number of different Windows Vista/7/8/SVR2008R2/SVR2012/Win10 install ISO files (can be fully  automated using an XML answer file).
• Boot directly from linux LiveCD ISOs with persistence - you can have all  these (and more) on one Easy2Boot drive and boot them all with persistence - YLMF, Ubuntu, Fedora, StartOS, Porteus, pclinuxos, Backtrack5, kali-linux, Mint ISOs and more. e.g. you can even boot from the same linux ISO but have 2 or more persistence files for the same ISO, one for each different user. Persistence files can be larger than 4GB (if you format the E2B drive as NTFS).
• User configurable and fully documented - you can change the background wallpaper, headings and text colours, move the menu position, make your own sub-menus, make it beep when the menu loads, add your own GFXBoot menu, change menu font, use UTF-8 non-ASCII characters in the menus, define your own hotkeys, add your own language versions, etc. etc.
• Variety of example 'skins'/themes included.
• Compatible with FlashBoot (uses FAT32 for booting old systems that have trouble booting from USB due to non-standard USB BIOS boot support).
• Can boot some linux liveCD ISOs even if they are not contiguous or write-protected (ISOBOOT feature)
• Password protect the menu or individual payloads. PIN code protection, encrypt config files + other security features
• Hide some payloads so only you can boot from them.
• Guest Menu - password protect the full menu so other users will only see a 'Guest menu' when they boot from the E2B drive
• It's FREE!

Easy2Boot is FREE! - but please consider making a small donation to support this site and my work, it would be much appreciated! 

Other Articles

Click here for a list of tested ISOs and read the German Com! Magazine article here or Frettt's German guide here or a series of French articles here or Russian article here.

More Videos

Click here to see the Easy2Boot YouTube channel videos.

Real comments from real users

• Easy2Boot is indeed a master piece. I have tried them all but none is close enough to Easy2boot. (see comments)
• 'Easy2Boot is one of those incredibly useful tools that once you use it, you can’t imagine living without it.' - Gary Danton's E2B installation guide.
• 'I have tried YUMI, Sardu and others, this one just does it all.' (see comments)
• 'In short, Easy2Boot is by-far the best USB drive creation tool/utility out there'
• 'This is one tool that every techie should have!' 
• 'Really, seriously, and truly, just use Easy2Boot.'
• 'I wish I had this utility years ago. RMPrepUSB and Easy2Boot have changed the way I do my job. Other solutions gave me problems. Easy2Boot is the first fully-working solution !
• 'E2B wins hands down no question. Can't find anything else that can handle that many ISO's'
• Went to YouTube and started with Steve's latest tutorials. Wow, I was soon cooking just after the first one, but the latest three tutorials have shown me virtually everything I need for my purposes. Fantastic app., really love the QEMU emulator which lets me test without rebooting. Also like the diagnostics and backup/restore functions. No offense to the apps. I deleted (Sardu, Yumi, XBoot); but for me, RMPrepusb/Easy2Boot is the answer to my needs.