Ventoy Update Hangs At 12% Every Time

[zepfan1965]

This issue started happening at some point within the last couple months or so, not sure exactly when. Every time I attempt to update Ventoy to a new release, ventoy2disk hangs at 12%. This happens 100% of the time and the only thing I can do is to close the program through Task Manager. I've tried several different USB drives, all with the same result. Rebooting the machine makes no difference. This is on Windows 10, 64 bit. The only way I've been able to update to a new release is to start over, formatting the drive, fresh install of Ventoy and then recopying all ISO files back to the drive. Any ideas?

[steve6375]

Try a different usb drive.

[zepfan1965]

I've already tried 3 or 4 different ones. I don't have another one at the moment to try, but since it did the same thing on the ones I've tried it seems logical to me that the drives are not the problem.

[steve6375]

Ok, maybe antivirus software is causing the problem?

[ventoy]

@zepfan1965 What about the latest release?

[mightymo77]

I tried updating from version 1.0.54 on two different flash drives, and two different ports. It gets to 12% for a little while, will jump to 22%, and then hang. Have to kill the process. Tried rebooting. Flash drives and Windows 10 installation are fine.

[mightymo77]

I only have Windows Security (Windows 10) installed, I have no third party anti-virus software.

[ventoy]

Please try the newest
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/blob/master/INSTALL/Ventoy2Disk.exe

[mightymo77]

Yes this newest exe worked. What did you change?

[ventoy]

I need the log.txt for analyse.

[mightymo77]

Here is the log.

[steve6375]

AntiVirus may be blocking access. Disable AV.
Log.txt file is produced - what does it say and attach it.
Maybe all your USB Flash drives are fake? Are they all the same make/source?
e.g. a 1TB USB flash drive for $10 is going to be a fake.
You can test them using FakeFlashTest.exe or H2TESTW.

[ventoy]

Can latest 1.0.56 work?

[mightymo77]

Log uploaded. Please let me know your findings.

[ventoy]

OK. There maybe some process that hold the disk and prevent Ventoy upgrade.
In the CI release I remove the EFI partition and recreate it. seems works.

[mightymo77]

OK yes, after this update the EFI drive opened in File Explorer. Are you going to use this method in final builds from now on?

[ventoy]

Do you mean after update the 32MB VTOYFEI partition can open in File Explorer?

[mightymo77]

Oh I just meant that when Ventoy recreated the EFI drive, it automatically popped open in File Explorer (due to my autostart settings). You can ignore that comment. But I am asking, that change that you made in the CI release, to where you remove the EFI partition and then recreate it, now that you know it works, will you now use that moving forward?

[GIBbeer]

Hi, same problem here - on my primary Win11 laptop I can't create Ventoy disk - hangs on 12%, but on my old Win7 headless terminal it works good. Log file attached.
Flash drive is 100% legit, no file hooks to the flash drive exists in File Locksmith PowerToy. Windows Defender is disabled. Tried few older Ventoy versions and nothing works.
log.txt

[blibdoolpoolp]

I just had this issue... I figured out what I was doing wrong, and it seems so obvious, but you might want to put a notice in the install instructions. I WAS RUNNING VENTOY FROM THE USB I WAS FORMATTING. Obviously, during the format, the ventoy2disk.exe was being destroyed. I swear I saw in a youtube video on installing it that's how you were supposed to do it...

Or maybe put a check into the program that checks if it's on the same volume it's trying to format?