There’s probably quite a few users reading this who have got at least a couple of bootable CD’s laying around for performing various repair tasks. A lot of developers these days make available ISO images which can be burned onto CD of even transferred onto USB stick. From Antivirus scanning and Linux distro’s, to password resetting tools and data backup or recovery, there’s a massive selection of disks that can really give you a comprehensive repair and recovery collection of disks. Oh, and not forgetting a lot of peoples favourite repair utility disk, Hiren’s Boot CD.
For a long time though, when you downloaded one of these CD’s, it had to be one ISO image to one CD or DVD. That makes it rather inconvenient if you wanted to take your whole repair collection with you to another location. There are tools that let you write an ISO onto a USB stick such as Rufus and UNetbootin which is helpful but still doesn’t make the best use of your disk space.
In recent years things have become much easier because there are utilities around that can enable you to put several ISO’s onto one CD, DVD or pen stick and allow them to be multi booted making more effective use of your media. A couple of these tools that will set up a multi boot menu on your disks are Yumi and SARDU and they’re pretty good.Another program which also does this and a few other things besides is XBoot. The program can create nicely ordered menu’s for a number of ISO images and then either output them as an ISO image to burn onto a disk or write everything straight out to USB stick. And when completed, it will then offer to test the finished result by running it through the Virtualisation tool QEMU. XBoot is a standalone executable and is free to use but does require the .NET Framework v4 to run.
ISO’s are added to the program by means of dragging and dropping onto the window. If XBoot doesn’t recognise the ISO automatically, you will be asked to select what it is from a list. It is up to you to then choose the matching name or closest match. Images such as Hiren or DOS based CD’s are recommended to use ‘Grub4dos emulation’, where something like a live Windows distro would likely need the related ‘PE, MSDART,ERD’ selection, and something like Linux Mint will work with the ‘Ubuntu’ option.
Not all ISO’s are supported and you may have to experiment a bit to test if something not listed will work, but it’s known and made clear by the author that trying to use XBoot as a multi boot to install Windows does not work. The currently supported list is shown below:
If anything in the list above looks interesting, click on the main window’s File Menu, and select Download. From the dropdown you can select any image in the list and then click ‘Open Download Webpage’ to take you to the related website or download page.
On the main screen the image name, category and Help Text can be edited by double clicking on it. Choosing a category will place the entry in a sub menu on the boot screen, so if you want everything on one single screen, delete the category from all entries.
Once all the ISO’s have been added the total output size will have been calculated so make sure the size isn’t going to be too big for its destination. There is also a checksum calculator if you want to verify any images before writing. Then you are ready to click the ‘Create ISO’ button or ‘Create USB’ to begin the process. Creating an ISO will simply ask for the destination of the file and will then create it for you.
The option to create a USB multi boot is also very easy, just point to the USB drive from the dropdown and select OK. The option is there to change the Bootloader from the recommended of Syslinux to Grub4dos if you know what you are doing. Something XBoot can’t do is prepare the USB stick for you or burn a disk inside the program. It is advisable to format the stick in FAT32 for the greatest compatibility because some Linux distro’s cannot boot using NTFS.
When the process has completed, XBoot will ask if you wish to test the result in QEMU to see how it looks and performs. If you select ‘Yes’ a new window will pop up and begin booting. The menu certainly looks better than some other multi boot utilities I have seen!
The other two tabs in the main window are; The QEMU tab will let you drag and drop any ISO or select any USB stick which will then be booted using QEMU, useful for testing any other images you have from elsewhere. The ‘Edit MultiBoot USB’ tab can be used to edit the menu.lst of Grub4dos or the Syslinux.cfg menu configuration files, and will let you reinstall either Bootloader on USB stick again.
I’ve used this a few times and it works pretty well and a multi boot USB stick certainly makes things easier with something like multiple antivirus CD images crammed onto it. If you’re just looking for a simple tool to get Windows Vista, 7 or 8 onto a USB stick to install, you might like to try this tool.
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