CAUTION with the tool "Ventoy"!!

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Hey guys, I just wanted to warn everyone who is looking for information about "Ventoy" about this devillish thing...

It is a tool that makes it possible to just paste iso files to your USB device and then boot the iso. It is recommended in a few threads in the official MS Windows forum by (official?) users/guides and that's how I found it.

This thing works great for a few days, but if you remove ANYTHING from this USB device, the trouble begins:

Windows lags out when you plug the device in
No partitioning tool whatsoever can find the drive. Most of them don't even start up (part. tools used include standard windows disk management, diskpart, gparted, fdisk, acronis, ...)
The usb device can't be accessed on win10 (2004 - 21H1) and linux (Ubuntu 20.04/21.04; CentOS 8)

Basically you can throw out the USB device. It becomes useless. WATCH OUT!!

If anyone succeeded in removing this sh** from their drives PLEASE let me know how you did it.

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