USB Image Tool 1.70
I have found the bug, that caused the troubles with version 1.67 and Windows XP. Version 1.70 now requires .NET 4.0 again, but also supports Windows XP. I also fixed the option for scrolled output in the command line tool.
Tags: USB Image Tool
November 6th, 2014 at 11:21 pm
Thank you!
November 7th, 2014 at 4:43 am
hallo ich bin neu und kann leider nur deutsch.
November 7th, 2014 at 8:31 pm
@gerhard: Ok, aber wo ist das Problem? Die Seite und die Software sind auf Englisch, aber so kompliziert ist das Programm jetzt auch nicht zu bedienen.
November 9th, 2014 at 1:40 pm
Hallo Alex,
schönes Tool – nur – ich bekomme nicht alle Devices angezeigt? Was mache ich falsch? z. B.: USB-Drucker wird nicht angezeigt? Über eine kurze Hilfe würde ich mich freuen – danke und Grüße
November 9th, 2014 at 11:18 pm
@Erich: Images können nur von USB-Massenspeichern (Sticks, Speicherkarten, Festplatten) erstellt werden. Drucker gehören dieser Geräteklasse im Normalfall nicht an.
November 11th, 2014 at 6:04 pm
Hallo Alex,
I’m a xp user, and telling the truth I never had the need of installing .net 4, so far. Everything always worked fast and smootly.
My question is: do I miss something if I continue to use your 1.69 version ? Apart the fix about ‘scrolled output in the command line tool’, I mean?
Thanks in advance and for your great piece of sw.
Antonio
November 11th, 2014 at 8:18 pm
@antonio: I will keep version 1.69 online, but you can install .NET 4.0 on Windows XP as well. Currently Windows XP is still supported, but that might change with future versions. 1.70 itself is not a major update.
November 17th, 2014 at 1:56 pm
Thank you.. for your software tool
November 21st, 2014 at 5:37 am
i love this tool
November 21st, 2014 at 6:46 pm
Danke!
December 3rd, 2014 at 5:25 am
I’ve used USB image tool for some years.
Thank you very much for your effects on it.
December 3rd, 2014 at 4:27 pm
ok
December 5th, 2014 at 7:50 am
nice tool
thank u!!
December 6th, 2014 at 11:03 am
how do you download it?
December 6th, 2014 at 3:57 pm
@lol: On the right side, in the menu, just click the download link…
December 11th, 2014 at 8:53 pm
Thank for supporting
December 17th, 2014 at 11:25 am
Hallo Alex,
Dein Programm ist ja Super zum speichern des Image. Leider funktioniert bei mir das Restore nicht.
Nach ca 5-10 % kommt immer die Meldung “Gerät nicht bereit, Code 21”.
BS ist W7 32Bit
Grüße Gerd
December 20th, 2014 at 9:14 am
@Gerd: Passiert dies mit nur bei einem Usb-Stick? Ich vermute eher, dass es sich um einen Hardware-Fehler handelt.
December 21st, 2014 at 6:15 am
Hi Alex I am trying to restore an openelec install.img file but it kept saying
could not convert internal zip file name to MBCS (Code 5) Access is denied. What Am I doing wrong?
December 21st, 2014 at 9:21 am
@Randy: Code 5 usually appears, when device vor file can’t be locked exclusivly, but the error message itself indicates something else. If it is a compressed image, please try to extract it manually and then restore the raw image. If this doesn’t work, I habe to take a look at the source code. I’m currently in Christmas vacation.
December 28th, 2014 at 7:59 am
Alex,
Feature Request:
handle compressed images, .img.gz and .img.xz.
December 28th, 2014 at 10:28 am
@Ace: .img.gz is already supported, .xz possibly in the future.
December 29th, 2014 at 6:48 pm
Thanks, I didnt know that img.gz was supported, thats awesome!
I will wait for img.xz, this is very common as well.
December 30th, 2014 at 8:40 pm
Thanks 😀
January 9th, 2015 at 5:53 pm
Das Tool ist superb!
Es erkennt leider keine Kingston Workspace (Win 8 toGo) USB-Sticks, wahrscheinlich weil da ein SSD-Controller drinsteckt, oder?
January 9th, 2015 at 6:26 pm
Oh sorry, do you like to have comments in english language?
Tool is superb
But: It does not recognize Kingston Workspace USB Sticks (Win 8 To Go), i assume this is because it contains a SSD controller and appears as a USB harddrive? (Acronis True Image can not Backup the stick too!)
January 11th, 2015 at 8:11 pm
@Roger: Please activate the HDD option on the options tab.
January 11th, 2015 at 4:22 pm
Hallo Alex,
I used your software, I find it great but I can not do “restore”.
I made “Backup” from a Pendrive with about 4 gigabytes of data. Every time message back is” The image file is too large for the selected USB devide!”
Where I’m wrong?
Thanks
Nick
January 11th, 2015 at 8:10 pm
@Nick: Is it the same device. 4Gb on one device aren’t exact the same size as 4 Gb on another.
January 12th, 2015 at 4:44 pm
Thank you, it works! With HDD Option activated Kongston Workspace USB Sticks can be imaged!
January 17th, 2015 at 2:37 pm
Very Helpful tool Thanks…!!!
January 21st, 2015 at 6:54 pm
Hi Alex, answering to you message of january 11th, 2015 at 8.10 pm. Yes it I used the same device. The image backup I had from this device with your software in 14,9 Gb.
Restoring this image I have always the same message I just wrote you: “The image file is too large for the selected USB devide!”
Give me a help please. Thanks
Nick
January 21st, 2015 at 7:27 pm
@Nick: What are the exact file size and image size in bytes? Habe you activated device mode for restore?
January 29th, 2015 at 5:55 pm
Hi Alex,
sorry I made a mistake changing pendrive. Now everything is OK
Thanks
February 5th, 2015 at 6:03 pm
Hello
I report a trouble : I had made a backup from a 32 Go sd card.
When I restore this backup on a 64 Go sd card, it is ok but te size of the SD card become 32 Go ???
I resize the sd card whit EasUS Partition Manager to 64 Go and format on FAT 32 whit guiformat software.
I restore again and the size become always 32 Go.
An idea ?
Lot of thanks
February 5th, 2015 at 7:13 pm
@Jmarc: Please read the FAQ.
February 6th, 2015 at 6:19 pm
Hi Alex
#Q: I restored a smaller image file to a larger flash drive. Now it shows the smaller size. What can I do?
A: You have to extend the restored partition. You can do this with various partition tools. A freeware program is the Home Edition of Partition Wizard #
Is it the good way to do ?
lot of Tanks
February 8th, 2015 at 10:59 am
@Jmarc: Yes.
February 9th, 2015 at 6:33 pm
Thank you very much useful software 🙂
February 12th, 2015 at 1:17 pm
Hi Alex,
ich finde leider auf die Schnelle auf Deiner Seite keine andere Kontaktmöglichkeit.
Wir planen für den Franzis Verlag ein weiteres Raspberry Pi Maker Kit (Aktuelle Version siehe: http://www.softwarehandbuch.de/2014/11/franzis-raspberry-pi-maker-kit/). Erstmals wird eine DVD mit Software beiliegen. Hier würde ich gerne das USB Image Tool mit drauf packen, um die Raspbian-Images zu übertragen. Bisher war immer nur ein Downloadlink auf alexpage.de im Handbuch abgedruckt.
Ich gehe davon aus, nach dem Lizenztext ist das möglich, aber ich finde es freundlicher, vorher dem Entwickler Bescheid zu geben.
Viele Grüße
Christian
February 12th, 2015 at 9:00 pm
@Christian: Eine Beigabe auf einer Buch-DVD ist von der Lizenz abgedeckt. Danke trotzdem für die Info.
March 26th, 2015 at 4:54 pm
Is there a way, using USB Image Tool, to duplicate an USB bootable key (that is: with a MBR) and some files into another USB key that has a smaller dimension ? NOTE: of course, the REAL data dimension of the first USB key is lower than the size of the second USB key (that has a smaller total dimension).
As example: copy a USB bootable key (64 Gb) that has a total occuped space of 11 Gb into another USB key whose total capacity is 16 Gbytes ? Thanks a lot for your reply !! 😉
March 26th, 2015 at 7:33 pm
@Ugo: Best way would be to reduce the partition before creating the master image and then expand it later to the flash drives real size. Please see the FAQ for futher info: http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/faq/
April 14th, 2015 at 2:49 pm
Is there any way to make an image self extracting? WinImage has this feature, but is limited to the size that will work. The image has to load in memory, some of my images are up to needing 16 gb flash drives, they simply don’t load into memory. Your tool is better that WinImage, and I have completely changed over.
April 15th, 2015 at 11:35 pm
@Dan: There is no built-in SFX feature, but I have built custom versions of USB Image Tool, that only allow restore and used 7-zip SFX Maker to build a sfx.
April 28th, 2015 at 2:42 am
I can’t figure out where and how to download USB Image Tool 1.70 (or any other version for that matter). Please help me. Thank you.
April 28th, 2015 at 6:10 pm
@Bob: On the right side, Pages, USB-Image Tool, sub-menu Download
May 1st, 2015 at 7:03 am
I have got trouble with a 2 Gb compact flash card – it seems that the file system is corrupt. The backup to a 16 GB USB stick with your tool worked very fine, but I can’t do a restore of the *img-file. I allways get the message >> Could not convert internal zip file name to MBCS (Code:5)! Zugriff verweigert” <<
What's going wrong?
May 1st, 2015 at 12:02 pm
@Frank: The error message is not correct in this case. Code 5 indicates, that the file can’t be opened, because it’s locked. Try copying the image file and retry with the duplicate.
May 1st, 2015 at 5:21 pm
It was a user mistake ….
Thanks for your feedback.
May 8th, 2015 at 1:32 pm
Excellent tool !! Simple and powerful !
May 13th, 2015 at 12:32 pm
Is there any planned support for bzip2 compression format?
May 17th, 2015 at 3:47 pm
@Sten: Currently not. Need to check, how much effort it is to implement and if it’s covered by the license.
June 17th, 2015 at 5:32 pm
This tool is perfect to clone USBs with any images in it, it copies all partitions exactly as they are!
July 7th, 2015 at 8:56 am
Alex
It is fun because I am on XP and I got .NET Framework 4 on February the 4th with Kaspersky Antivirus 2014 free trial and so I downloaded USB Image Tool 1.7 on February the 17th lol, never had the need of -4 ou -3 -3.5 versions
So you saved my life because your application allowed me to burn GPartedLive iso as bootable USB Drive (Debian) and to run it with no shutdown, otherwise with Zip file and makeboot.bat it either not booted or not ran. Was it expected to be used like that or is it extraordinary ?
I make further tests with other bootable environments
Thanks !
(Jeromex) – Philippe (France)
July 7th, 2015 at 9:09 am
In fact it brings to that http://i.imgur.com/A6sRbp4.jpg ???? but it works :))
July 9th, 2015 at 8:19 pm
I just downloaded the latest version, but on unzip the USB.exe requires admin rights. I tried fiddling w/ windows permission but now luck.
July 13th, 2015 at 7:44 pm
@Gary: Yes, USB Image Tool requires admin rights, because accessing the device low-level requires this permissions.
September 17th, 2015 at 8:49 am
Thank You
September 20th, 2015 at 12:30 pm
thanks
September 28th, 2015 at 9:02 am
Thank you!
October 7th, 2015 at 2:05 pm
Thanks
October 16th, 2015 at 8:42 pm
Thanks, I didnt know that img.gz was supported, thats awesome!
I will wait for img.xz, this is very common as well.
October 24th, 2015 at 3:02 pm
thank you
November 1st, 2015 at 6:48 am
Thanks Alex,
this fine utility keeps my miniSD for the Raspbeery Pi save.
November 2nd, 2015 at 8:01 am
Hallo Alex,
eine frage am Rand, ich bin mit dem USB Tool sehr zufrieden. Nach dem Windows 10 Upgrade können keine CFast Karten mehr im Device Handler mehr ausgewählt werden. Muss etwas bestimmtes einstellen, ausser “show non-removable devices”? Alle anderen Formate wie (micro)SD, CF, USB und Festplatten funktionieren.
Oder wird es noch eine neue Version von deinem Programm geben?
November 2nd, 2015 at 7:25 pm
@Johann E: Werden die CFast-Karten trotz Aktivierung der HDD-Option nicht mehr angezeigt? Wie werden die Karten eingelesen (CardReader?). Ist dieser über USB angeschlossen?
November 9th, 2015 at 9:37 am
Ja selbst wenn die Option (show non-removable devices, USB hard disk drives) eingeschaltet ist kann, nichts ausgewählt werden. Der Reader ist ein CFast reader über USB 3.0 von Delock. An USB 3.0 kann es jedenfalls nicht liegen, weil der Cardreader für die ältere CF Variante funktioniert.
November 9th, 2015 at 7:50 pm
@Johann E: Welche CFast Version funktioniert denn nicht mehr (2.0?)? Ist dies nur unter Windows 10 so, oder machen die neuen Karten auch unter anderen Windows-Versionen Probleme? Ich würde dies eigentlich testen wollen, aber die CFast Karten sind nicht ganz billig. Ich würde dass aus den Paypal-Donations bezahlen, müsste aber wissen, ob dazu auch schon der CardReader für 37 EUR und eine CFast 2.0 Karte für ca. 60-70 EUR ausreicht.
November 11th, 2015 at 2:01 pm
Die Karte die ich benutze ist in der Version Cfast 2.0 von Apacer 8GB, Mit Windows 7 funktionierte es. Es sollte der Cardreader und eine CFast Karte in Version 2.0 ausreichen. Wäre es möglich per Telefon oder Email Kontakt zu haben, würde das ganze einfacher machen? Werde eine Paypal Donation machen.
November 19th, 2015 at 2:56 pm
Eu, eu nome da comunidade brasileira, agradeço pela sua ferramenta.
Muito obrigado!