{"id":742,"date":"2024-05-04T12:05:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T12:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/?p=742"},"modified":"2024-05-04T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T12:09:01","slug":"portable-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"Portable Imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the last few months, we&#8217;ve developed a need to image computers away from our SCCM Imaging Server so I&#8217;ve tasked myself with coming up with a solution. So far there are two, one is Ventoy and the second a &#8220;iodd&#8221; drive. Both have their advantages and disadvantages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After overcoming challenges with both systems Ventoy has come out ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the  Iodd2531  USB3.0 HDD SSD Virtual CD-ROM  Enclosures &#8211; Made in Korea&nbsp;purchased from Amazon ($85.00). Basically it is a portable hard drive case with a little computer built in. It comes in two firmware versions exFAT and NTFS, both should work equally well and shouldn&#8217;t affect results. The instructions are a bit of a challenges due to language barrier. I installed a 1tb SSD, formatted as NTFS as per my firmware, created a &#8220;_iso&#8221; folder and placed some ISO&#8217;s in the folder. Making sure your computer has Secure Boot disabled in bios, you select the iso you wanna boot from using the selection switch\/button on the side. Boot computer using F12, select the drive, and wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ventoy, works pretty much the same way, but easier.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We installed 500 gb SATA SSD drives, in POSUGEAR 2.5&#8221; Clear External Hard Drive Case ($6) just for uniqueness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then you download, install and run Ventoy. It&#8217;ll setup your select drive for use. You then add a folder called &#8220;_iso&#8221; and copy your iso&#8217;s to the folder. As with Iodd drive, you have to disable Secure Boot in the bios. Again, just boot using F12, select your drive. The system will boot and display a list of bootable iso, for your selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hardest part was figuring how how and when to partition and format the iso data drives, and how to disable Secure Boot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iodd-1024x688.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iodd-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iodd-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iodd-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iodd-1200x806.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iodd.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months, we&#8217;ve developed a need to image computers away from our SCCM Imaging Server so I&#8217;ve tasked myself with coming up with a solution. So far there are two, one is Ventoy and the second a &#8220;iodd&#8221; drive. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. After overcoming challenges with both systems Ventoy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/?p=742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Portable Imaging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,5,41,23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-geek","category-media","category-media-entertainment","category-repair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4n.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}