Revisiting Memtest ISO

[Jito463]

It's been a while since I was on here, but I was looking to make a new Ventoy multi-boot flash drive, and I want to fill it with as many utilities as I can. If I can make this work, I'll absolutely buy a license for Memtest Pro; but if not, then there's literally no use for my situation. I was reading the following older thread about converting to ISO:

https://forums.passmark.com/memtest8...86-pro-usb-img

and I have to say, I'm quite disappointed in the official responses I saw. Being able to use ISO is about more than just burning to a CD/DVD. There are many situations where loading an ISO image can be beneficial. Even Windows 11 - with all its secure boot requirements - can be booted from Ventoy and installed just as from the original flash drive or disk. That you won't support this feature speaks more to your biases than to any technical limitation.

I get it, you don't want to support an ISO bootable method. Fine. How about a compromise, you provide an unofficial tool to convert to ISO, with no official support. Could that potentially be workable? I'm guessing probably not, but I have to ask at least. If you don't ask, then you'll never get an answer.

[David (PassMark)]

The other thread pretty much covered the situation.
Optical drives (and thus ISOs) were effectively dead years ago, and are still dead today. A optical drive renaissance seems pretty unlikely at this point and there are no technical advantages to an ISO compared to other formats.

But there is a unsupported V10 MemTest86 ISO here for people who want it
https://www.memtest86.com/tech_booting-cd-dvd.html
But being a read only device means a bunch of features will be missing. (Reporting, saving settings, DMA memory testing, logging, all require writing to the boot drive).

[Jito463]

The other thread pretty much covered the situation.
Optical drives (and thus ISOs) were effectively dead years ago, and are still dead today. A optical drive renaissance seems pretty unlikely at this point and there are no technical advantages to an ISO compared to other formats.

But there is a unsupported V10 MemTest86 ISO here for people who want it
https://www.memtest86.com/tech_booting-cd-dvd.html
But being a read only device means a bunch of features will be missing. (Reporting, saving settings, DMA memory testing, logging, all require writing to the boot drive).

Actually, there are technical advantages, such as the Ventoy multi-boot that I already mentioned. In any event, this v10 ISO is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

[David (PassMark)]

Ventoy can use disk images (.IMG) and UEFI boot executables. It doesn't need ISOs.