It has been a successful week for USB Image Tool. I was able to replace all compression routines by the new ones. I modified minizip to work with UNICODE file functions. I get a lot of referers to my page from asian websites (Korean and Vietnamese especially), so I consider this important. Additionally I was […]
I’m currently working on version 1.40 of USB Image Tool. I have removed the faulty XZip routines and already implemented an new gzip compatible compression based on zlib. For compatibility reasons I will also implement an extraction for the old zip based imz files (minizip). It’s also included in the zlib package and contributed by […]
Version 1.31 includes bugfixes for the user interface and compression routines. The zip compression routines, used by USB Image Tool (XZip based on Info-ZIP/zlib 1.1.3), may lead to corrupted images. When creating a compressed backup, USB Image Tool now checks the compressed image to ensure it is not corrupted. I’m assuming it has to be […]
The new version introduces the device mode, which is intended for bootable devices and USB devices, formatted with a file system unknown to windows. If you want to clone a pendrive Linux, you have to use the device mode to make the new USB device bootable. Also a small error in the command line utility […]
Due to some issues with Windows Vista again, I have to postpone the release of USB Image Tool 1.30. I had everything working fine on Windows XP, but when I tested it on Windows Vista, restoring device images didn’t work. After some research I found out, that Vista prevents writing special sectors to fix a […]
I’m planning to release version 1.30 during the first week of September. I just need to implement the device mode for the restore function. Backup already works fine. With it you can clone identical USB sticks as well as bootable USB sticks, because the device mode copies the boot sector as well.
After publishing USB Image Tool 1.27 about a month ago on a single shareware page (softpedia.com), it has become somewhat of a success with over 12000 downloads from my page alone, not counting the various shareware/freeware archives, it became listed in. I recieved some feedback through comments with questions, feature requests and thanks. Be assured, […]
USB Image Tool 1.28 comes with a new command line utility, that can be used for batch operations and doesn’t require the .Net Framework. Also the new GUI version is now compatible with Windows x64 versions.
While playing attound with the SCSI commands to get direct access to USB devices I found the reason for the physical device size detection problem. Because opening a device with restricted user rights fails when you flag read/write operations, I removed them during the detection process. Unfortunately they are needed to retrieve the physical disk […]
This version fixes a detection error when working with activated Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC). Somehow this prevents a correct detection of the physical USB device size (IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO fails with an access error). Because the physical device size is only for information purpose, I decided to ignore the access error and continue the detection […]