Managing files on your drive

Once a drive is prepared, BootForge can read it back so you can see and manage the images on it — without a PC.

The Drive tab and boot preview

The Drive tab (and the Home drive card) show a boot preview — roughly what you’ll see when you boot a PC from this drive, i.e. the list of images Ventoy will offer. Each row shows the file, and where a name matches a catalog entry, its friendly name and category.

If the drive has no images yet, you’ll see a prompt to copy some on. If BootForge can’t read the contents, it says so — the drive is still fine to use.

Free space

The drive card shows free space (“12 GB free of 57 GB”). Where the drive reports its full capacity, you’ll also get a segmented usage bar (images vs free) like the phone library’s.

Manage files

Tap Manage files (or Choose this drive the first time) to open the drive’s file list. Android asks you to grant access — pick the BootForge drive’s top level (the partition itself, not a subfolder) so its files line up with the boot menu. BootForge warns you if you accidentally pick your phone’s own storage or a subfolder.

Deleting images

In the file list:

• Tap an image and Delete to remove it. The confirmation notes how much space it frees.
• Long-press to select several and delete them at once (partial failures are handled gracefully).

Deleting an image from the drive frees its space immediately and removes it from the Ventoy boot menu. It can’t be undone.

Adding more

To put more images on, copy them from your library or download straight to the drive (Pro). You never need to re-prepare the drive to add or remove systems.

Drive details

For the full picture — capacity, used/free, Ventoy version, latest available, filesystem, partition scheme, image count, and USB identity — open Tools → Drive information.