Comments on: USB Image Tool 1.53

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:52:29 +0000

They have an evaluation version available for download, so I think I will give it a try. If you see something about Linux it’s probably syslinux/isolinux. They are often used for recovery CDs/flash drives.

By: Peter (from AU)

Peter (from AU) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:29:37 +0000

…no idea, but this is a new feature. Previous version could only create a floppy (2) as a recovery disk. I had great difficulties making a bootable USB from those floppies. They would start in DOS 5 or something like that, but then the program would load its own OS to get the main recovery tool. Somewhere in between there is a hint of Linux . Paragon finally realised floppies are dinosaurs and in this latest version they made the tool to do it on USB. And when you copy CD or ISO to USB, it is bootable only if the original (CD or ISO) is. So, I don’t think it is installing its own boot loader… anyway, you have my e-mail. If you drop me your mail I will send you my copy of Paragon to test it. I think I can trust you

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:18:07 +0000

Thanks for all the praise. Im curious how the USB Recovery Tool of Paragon 10 makes these images bootable. Maybe it installs its own bootloader. I know that the isolinx bootloader supports hybrid images, that allows you to write ISOs of Linux LiveCDs to either a CD/DVD or a flash drive. Guess I have to do some more research on this.

By: Peter (from AU)

Peter (from AU) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:31:33 +0000

for Ricardo: right click on USB tool.exe, properties, compatibility, run as XP compatibility mode…
for Alex: just bought Paragon Partition Manager 10. It has a tool to create a bootable recovery media (CD, floppy, USB flash). It creates a bootable USB recovery tool, and to do this one of the options is to get it from the CD/DVD ROM or ISO!!! I tried to load many different bootable CDs and it would make a perfectly working bootable USB stick. No need to create image or ISO file first. Directly from the CD to USB 
Also WinToFlash.exe can create a bootable USB stick you can use to install Windows from. You don’t need a CD/DVD at all. It uses the genuine Windows CD/DVD to directly create bootable USB installation stick. You can use nLite to make it (almost) unattended installation with some extra tweaks.
But your tool is the final tool! After hours of playing with USB drive when you get it right, your tool is the most important tool – to preserve all the hard work and save it as an image somewhere safe.
I hope you had a good xmas and all the best in 2010!

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:35:31 +0000

-> FAQ

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:11:46 +0000

Hi Alex,

I’ve tried different flash drives (sony micro vault tiny 2GB, Kingston Data Traveler 2GB, Kingston Data Traveler 4GB, Generics, etc.) and I can not change from Volume Mode to DEVICE MODE. (The pulldown menu is greyed out)

I am using windows 7. UAC is DEFAULT.

Tks

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:28:17 +0000

When you reformat it after using it to flash your AppleTV, it should regain its original size. If it’s not letting you format it with the original size, use USB Image Tool to restore the empty bootsector, that is also available for download. After that, formatting should be possible again.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:18:48 +0000

I used my usb drive for a patchstick for apple tv. I did not create a back up but was able to get a bootable disk image from the website that offered the patchstick. when I try to load the image backup i get a error code 32 so I safely remove the disk and remount it. No I am able to load the backup however I cam not able to recover all my hard disk space. I have a 2gb drive and only 218mb is usable, is there a way to fix this?

I am using windows vista and looked at the disk management utility and saw that 25mb is unallocated as well as 1.86 gb.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:07:34 +0000

It only supports flash drives, but not USB hard drives. The size of the flash drive itself doesn’t matter.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:46:50 +0000

Hi Alex,

I am running XP SP3 and USB Image Tool 1.53 is not detecting my Western Digital 500GB PassPort Portable !, any reason why?

Also another external 200GB is not being detected.

1- Does that mean the tool only support upto 16GB? What the max amount of GB that USBIT can detect?

Thank you.