Comments on: USB Image Tool 1.40 development status http://www.alexpage.de/software/usb-image-tool-140-development-status/ software programming Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:14:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Alex http://www.alexpage.de/software/usb-image-tool-140-development-status/comment-page-1/#comment-1075 Alex Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:35:21 +0000 http://www.alexpage.de/?p=76#comment-1075 Thank you very much for your support on USB Image Tool. Including the bootsector or MBR in an image was implemented with version 1.30 and its device mode. So if you create identical flash drives, you only would have to create one bootable flashdrive and then create an device image of it, that you can restore to the other flash drives. Another tool, you might find useful, is HDHacker (http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/). Thank you very much for your support on USB Image Tool. Including the bootsector or MBR in an image was implemented with version 1.30 and its device mode. So if you create identical flash drives, you only would have to create one bootable flashdrive and then create an device image of it, that you can restore to the other flash drives. Another tool, you might find useful, is HDHacker (http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/).

]]> By: William Reichert http://www.alexpage.de/software/usb-image-tool-140-development-status/comment-page-1/#comment-1074 William Reichert Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:35:56 +0000 http://www.alexpage.de/?p=76#comment-1074 Your tool has been very handy for me - creating bootable flash drives for classroom work - I did donate through Paypal, however, your link to Paypal (in Germany, I guess) did not work - I had to use the U.S. paypal. A note, initially with bare flash drives, I had to use the two HP tools first - the more extensive one to be sure the device was seen as a Hard Disk, not a Removable Drive (create partitions and an MBR) and the 2nd tool to make the disk bootable. Once that was done ONCE on each flash drive, your image tool worked flawlessly on repeated images. The bootsector work you mention in your notes would be helpful. A Bootsector Tool I use now for copying Windows Volume Bytes on multiboot systems (hard drives, not flash drives), is MBRTOOL, where I can save the "Correct Drive Letters" (Volume Bytes) and restore them, making imaging any drive successful with Windows on logical drives even on drives 1, 2 3, 4, etc. that have been completely bare. I believe MBRTOOL was also developed in Germany. Bill Reichert Your tool has been very handy for me – creating bootable flash drives for classroom work – I did donate through Paypal, however, your link to Paypal (in Germany, I guess) did not work – I had to use the U.S. paypal.
A note, initially with bare flash drives, I had to use the two HP tools first – the more extensive one to be sure the device was seen as a Hard Disk, not a Removable Drive (create partitions and an MBR) and the 2nd tool to make the disk bootable. Once that was done ONCE on each flash drive, your image tool worked flawlessly on repeated images. The bootsector work you mention in your notes would be helpful.
A Bootsector Tool I use now for copying Windows Volume Bytes on multiboot systems (hard drives, not flash drives), is MBRTOOL, where I can save the “Correct Drive Letters” (Volume Bytes) and restore them, making imaging any drive successful with Windows on logical drives even on drives 1, 2 3, 4, etc. that have been completely bare. I believe MBRTOOL was also developed in Germany.

Bill Reichert

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