Operating system: Windows
Publisher: Pendrivelinux.com
Release: YUMI 1.0.4.2
Antivirus check: VirusTotal report
Creating a multiboot USB drive has become quite easy with the advent of YUMI. The name of the utility speaks for itself: Your Universal Multiboot Installer. Thanks to YUMI, the user can place several operating systems, antivirus programs, diagnostic tools and system utilities on one flash drive. All these distributions are stored in their own folder on the drive (Multiboot in the Legacy edition, YUMI in the exFAT edition), which is important - later on, such a bootable flash drive can still be used for other purposes, such as storing files that are not related to YUMI.
A bootable USB disk is created in several steps. First, the user runs the portable .exe file, which needs no installation, selects the USB drive and picks a distribution from the list or browses to an ISO file. To add more distributions to the flash drive, the program is simply run again. Next, you need to set the PC startup properties to boot from a USB key. The user selects the desired distribution in the boot menu and starts working. YUMI is free and open source; the current YUMI exFAT edition uses the Ventoy boot process, supports both BIOS and UEFI booting and lets you drag ISO files into folders on the drive.
YUMI's main benefit is its ability to efficiently create a multiboot USB drive with multiple operating systems and utilities for various needs.