[How to] Ventoy unable to view USB drives

[pacav69]

I had a few problems with windows ventoy where no USB drives were visible so i tried rufus and got the same thing.
It was puzzling at first so i did ducduckgoing (think gogle equiv) and it turns out that the following could be the cause:

Ventoy unable to view USB drives.
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In Windows, some processes will occupy the USB drive, and Ventoy2Disk.exe cannot obtain the control right of the USB drive, so that the device cannot be listed.
Some known process are as follows:
1. Paragon ExtFS for Windows
2. ParagonMounter
3. DokanMounter
4. ext2fsd
5. DiskGenius
6. DSAService.exe (Intel® Driver & Support Assistant).

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looking through taskmanager processes
I found 'ext2fsd' service running then i ended this process and ventoy could see the USB drives again,

Apparently the software 'ext2fsd' was owned by Paragon Disk manager I proceeded to uninstall Paragon software, rebooted and everything was fine.

So the moral of the story is. Be cautious when installing linux based software running on windows.

 

[vanTorX]

ext2fsd is a little program that facilitates mounting and reading (maybe even write?) access to ext4 linux formatted disks on windows OS. I don't remember but I think I didn't succeed doing that in the past, I still have it running I noticed the other day.

By Ventoy USB not showing, you mean on boot menu on windows computer or on its desktop? I've been reinstalling old macs recently and Ventoy always showed up in the boot menu but just last night, it didn't. I re-plugged and it showed up. Don't know if all computers but on macs, if you forget to plug in your usb drive, you can still do it while on the boot menu choice. It also works as boot menu refresh if you replug it.

 

[pacav69]

When you start up ventoy app it normally displays the USB thumb drives as shown in figure1

figure 1

if ext2fsd is runing in the backgrround on windows it prevents any usb drive from being visible in ventoys' device list.