Comments on: USB Image Tool 1.54

By: Curt

Curt — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:06:22 +0000

I had this problem until I made the a shortcut on my desktop to point at and run USBit. I had no problems since I did this. I’m running Windows 7 – 64bit. Also, run as administrator.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:51:47 +0000

@Jeff: I don’t know what exactly your situation is. If you start USB Image Tool and switch to device mode, you should be able to restore the empty bootsector, you can download from alexpage.de. After that, you should be able to reformat the device in the windows explorer or the control panel.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:02:06 +0000

Alex, the Windows version worked great. My question: my computer no longer recognizes the USB stick…it just doesn’t show up under my computer. It was blank to begin with, so I don’t have any data I need to recover but I would like to use it for other purposes. Is there a way to erase the patchstick and re-use the drive?

By: Cristian

Cristian — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:25:51 +0000

Alex, I hoped .net framework was XP hisotry with Win7. No error messages though. Interesting enough, I get the same with the MS Win7 USB tool (which is for XP).
The console works fine, so hail to DOS shell. I suppose it covers all your tool’s features. Thanks for making this available and for the support

By: David

David — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:45:08 +0000

Alex, I’ll reply here and switch over to the support forum in for any further postings / replies.

In answer to “Are you sure this image is intended to work on USB flash drives?”. Pretty sure, USB Image Tool is heavily referenced from postings that illustrate how to install Boxee onto Apple TV.

However, you have given me something to chase. I’ll make sure the .dng is well formed.

Thanks for your patience.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:01:12 +0000

@Cristian: I just tested it again on my 64bit Win7 notebook, but it works. It took 2-3 seconds to start (maybe for scanning devices). Also, there is no dedicated 64bit version, it runs on a 64bit Windows, because Windows itself can run 32bit apps (would be very bad, if it couldn’t). Maybe you are lacking an installed version of the required .net framework? Usually this should result in an error message. Also you could try to get the command line utility running. Just run “cmd”, change to the directory of usbit by using the cd command and the run “usbitcmd l” (it’s the small letter “L”).

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:53:30 +0000

@David: Are you sure this image is intended to work on USB flash drives? Usually this error message appears, when you try to write an image intended for CD/DVD (.iso) on a flash drive. Images for flash drives have to be divisible by 512, otherwise this error is most likely the result. Although the extension of the file isn’t really important, i don’t know if a .dmg file really is a raw flash drive image file.

By: Cristian

Cristian — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:54:47 +0000

Coming back to my earlier posting: it just doesn’t pop up in my Winidows 7 RC1 64b, while it does just fine on XP SP3. Looks cool, by the way. I can’t use it in the 32b environment because I am lacking the needed space on that HDD.

The only sign I got on the W& 64b is the cursor turning hour glass for a few seconds, then there’s no GUI, no application or process running in the task manager, where I could. What am I supposed to make of it? One more thing, I have tried to get to a 64bit package, but I am always getting to the “32″ (v1.54). I would assume that the version is for both 32 and 64b. In the changelog, there is this entry:

“USB Image Tool 1.28
- added: command line utility
- fixed: 64bit compatibility”

By: David

David — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:57:31 +0000

Thnx.

I’ve right clicked and “Run as Administrator”. Yes, it enabled me to use Device Mode. Also tried running with Troubleshoot Compatibility (with a number of releases including XP and Vista). But still get the same error message.

One other inconsistancy … file is called FirmwareImage.dmg … from drop downs I thought I be looking for .img?

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:36:05 +0000

To access the device mode, start the tool as admin (see FAQ for details). The device mode option will be available then and is located right above the selection window for the USB devices. Also make sure that no explorer window is opened, when starting the restore. This might lock the device. If it’s still not working, let me know.