Comments on: USB Image Tool 1.31 released

By: Loren

Loren — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:03:52 +0000

Code 32 fix: If you run into a code 32 error, close the program and then right click the USB Image Tool.exe file and select “Run as Administrator”. This got me past the 32 error as well as enabling “Device Mode” which had been previously unavailable as an option.

By: John ypelaar

John ypelaar — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:42:46 +0000

Whell I have to do exact copy now en has still working, Greetings John Ypelaar

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:36:11 +0000

Code 32 means a sharing violation. Eventually you have an open explorer window for this device or you are accessing a file on this device.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:09:42 +0000

I am able to make a backup, but when a try to restore it, I always get the message:
Could not access the USB device (code: 32)!
What is wrong?
Thank you!

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:11:35 +0000

You can use for example WinImage (www.winimage.com). What I’m wondering is, how the image file could get larger than the actual drive. Did you use device or volume mode? How was the drive detected (the information on the first tab)?

By: Kay

Kay — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:58:34 +0000

Hi Alex.

I backup a USB drive to an image, but strangely the size went to 3.7GB, even though the contents of the USB drive is just about 2GB.

When I try to restore it, the “image is too big” error came out. I tried to mount the image, then tried to burn it onto a CD, all failed. Is there any way I can do to extract the files from the image file?

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:56:41 +0000

USB Image Tool currently only works for removable devices. I will add some options with future versions. USB hard drives can’t be cloned for now, but maybe in the next version (1.40). I’m planning to release it in January or February 2009.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:34:18 +0000

I’m trying to use this to clone a 16GB USB SSD (Runcore), but in device mode it wont see the device (windows sees it, I can go into disk manager and see it). Its formatted HFS+ so I cant get to any files from inside windows. XP SP2.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:21:47 +0000

The device number is assigned by the device driver (should be usbstor.sys), when the driver is loaded. It seems they are unique for a device on a machine, once it is plugged in into a computer, because Windows keeps information of plugged in USB device in the registry, even when the device gets unplugged, but it can be a different number on another PC. I’m using the IOCTL functions to get the device number (you can lookup IOCTL_STORAGE_GET_DEVICE_NUMBER in the MSDN).

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:42:06 +0000

Thank you very much for creating this useful tool. I am curious as to where the numbers of the usb-drives for the command-line utility come from. (“usbitcmd l”)
I’m trying to create a script to automate this process (creating bootable images to distribute), and I’m wondering where your program grabs those numbers from.