Comments on: USB Image Tool 1.50 released

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:32:05 +0000

Hi Universal USB installer 1.58.exe can convert ISO to USB
was previously available on http://www.pendrivelinux.com but i cant see a compile download at the moment. (boo!)

Up side is the above tool source code is available if you want to see how theirs works to add iso to your tool too (yay!) http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/Sources/USB-Installers/

Its Annoying limitation is usb pendrive needs to be at least 1gb as it wants to create at least a 700mb file system. (even if your iso is only 3mb )

Looking for a way to get around that 700mb issue in google actually found me your tool, but it wont do iso at all

(I wanted to create a 3mb win98 bootdisk from image for a flash update so ye…)

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:36:25 +0000

Well, it isn’t that easy. ISO images are formatted with a different file system, than regular flash drives. Flash drives usually are FAT/FAT32, but can be formatted with various file systems, like NTFS, ext2/3 or others. Converting an ISO image to an IMG would mean to convert the CD/DVD specific file system to one of the earlier mentioned ones. At the moment I don’t know of a tool, that can perform this task.

By: Mrmagic

Mrmagic — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:27:05 +0000

Hi Alex!
Can you help for something?
If USBit cannot put an ISO to an usb thumbrive, can you tell us of a good tool to convert img/ima to Iso and ISo to Img/ima??
This conversion is very important to many people.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:27:50 +0000

Thanks for your feedback. If your intending on putting a Linux Live CD on a flash drive, it is possible to boot it with the isolinux bootloader 3.72. For more information search the web for create hybrid usb cd isolinux. Just writing any iso image on a flash drive won’t work, as cd/dvd and flash drives/hard drives use different file systems. For this goes what is said in the FAQ, USB Image Tool won’t do any file system parsing or conversion.

By: Norbert

Norbert — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:17:09 +0000

Great tool. Is it possible to use an iso-image and put it on a usb stick? If not, can this be added.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:21:41 +0000

You have to run it as admin under Windows Vista. Please take a look at the FAQ for further information. The disabled Remove button on then favorites tab is a bug. I will fix that with the next version.

By: Avijit

Avijit — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:44:46 +0000

Hi Alex,

It is a great tool. However, I noticed a issue that is stopping me from restoring my Linux image to my Kingston 8GB DataTraveler USB thunb drive. Whenever I am launching it from my Windows Vista system, I am not getting the Device Mode as that box is grayed out for me. I need to restore my Linux image in Device mode so that I can boot my Linux from USB.

Another issue I found is, when I add the img or img.gz to Favourite, I can not get the Remove button enabled. Only Add and Restore button is enabled and Remove button never gets enabled. I am using the latest v1.50.

By: Mrmagic

Mrmagic — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:18:34 +0000

Hi Alex!

A very nice tool we have here!
I’ve tested many images, it seems to had little bugs when I recovered with version 1.42 but seems somehow fixes with 1.5
Also, the only pb with this tool is that it cannot create image in ISO format or restore an ISO to an USB drive, this lacks a lot….
Actually, I’m wondering what happen if I make a image of a particularly specific usb key to another one with different size….
I’m continuing beta testing….
Mrmagic

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:12:41 +0000

Thanks, I will try to recreate the problem and try to fix it.

By: Al

Al — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:06:46 +0000

The exception message:
—snip—
Informationen über das Aufrufen von JIT-Debuggen
anstelle dieses Dialogfelds finden Sie am Ende dieser Meldung.

************** Ausnahmetext **************
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Der Wert 101 ist für Value ungültig. Value sollte zwischen ‘minimum’ und ‘maximum’ liegen.
Parametername: Value
bei System.Windows.Forms.ProgressBar.set_Value(Int32 value)
bei USB_Image_Tool.FormUSB.timerProgress_Tick(Object sender, EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Timer.OnTick(EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Timer.TimerNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
—snip—
If you are interested in the loaded assemblies as well, please email me.
The 8GB ext3-formated CF is listed in the GUI with a size of 8’195’604’480 Bytes, which matches the UNcompressed image size. The compressed image has a size of 618’080’060 Bytes.

I’ve already tried the /d switch, but the ext3 device is not listed. I’m using one of those fancy all-in-one card readers for CF, SM, MMC etc.