Copying images to the drive

Once an image is in your library and the drive is prepared, copying it onto the drive is what makes it bootable.

Send to drive

In the Library, select one or more images (long-press to multi-select) and tap Send to drive / Copy to USB drive. BootForge copies each file to the drive’s data partition, where Ventoy will list it in the boot menu.

Before it copies

• Space check — if the selected images need more room than the drive has free, BootForge tells you how much is needed vs available so you can deselect some or free space first.
• Name conflicts — if a file with the same name already exists on the drive, you choose Replace or Keep both.

Progress, per file

Copies appear in a Copying to USB section on the Drive tab, with each queued file as its own row:

• Waiting… — queued.
• Copying — live progress and transfer speed.
• Copied / Copied · checksum verified — done.
• Failed / Not copied — see which file and why.

A background notification and a status pill track the batch too, so you can leave the screen.

Stopping one file vs the batch

Tapping stop on the file that’s currently copying skips just that file and the rest of the queue keeps going (its partial is removed from the drive). One file failing doesn’t abort the whole batch either — the per-file rows show exactly what copied and what didn’t.

Why copies are one at a time

BootForge copies images to a drive one after another, not in parallel. Writing several files to one flash drive at once isn’t faster and raises the risk of corruption, so serial copying is intentional.

After copying

Switch to the Drive tab to see everything now on the drive, free space, and a boot preview. Then you’re ready to boot a PC.