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Overview
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ImageUSB is a free utility which lets you write an image concurrently to
multiple USB Flash Drives. Capable of creating exact bit-level copies of
USB Flash Drive (UFDs), ImageUSB is an extremely effective tool for the mass
duplication of UFDs. Unlike other USB duplication tools, ImageUSB can
preserve all unused and slack space during the cloning process, including
the Master Boot Record (MBR). ImageUSB can perform flawless mass duplications
of all UFD images, including bootable UFDs.
The tool can also be used for computer forensics purposes. With the disk image
file created by ImageUSB being compatible with the OSForensics software.
Note: imageUSB is currently only able to handle images (.bin) files that were
created by imageUSB.
Running this software to write an image file will destroy any data on any
removable drive volume specified.
To install imageUSB
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Unzip the file .ZIP file, imageusb.zip.
Copy the files to the Program Files directory (or any other folder).
To uninstall imageUSB
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Delete the files.
Requirements
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- Operating System: XP SP3, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 10
- RAM: 256 Meg
- Disk space: 3MB free hard disk space, plus any additional space required to st
ore image file.
Usage
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1) Before starting: If you need to keep the current content of your USB drive,
back it up before you start. This process will overwrite the USB drive select
ed,
so remove any other removable drives on the system to reduce the likelihood o
f mistakes.
2) This program requires Adminstration Privileges..
3) Follow the instructions on screen or in the Help documentation provided.
Be very careful to select the correct drive letter!!!
We don't want any more EMails about people accidentally overwriting their wed
ding photos.
Version History
===============
Here is a summary of all changes that have been made in each version of
imageUSB.
Release 1.3.1001
WIN32 release 26 Apr 2016
-Fixed a bug causing imageUSB to incorrectly write the header block back to the
disk when image is not of even 1 MB chunks.
Release 1.3.1000
WIN32 release 19 Apr 2016
- ImageUSB now supports Physical Disks instead of only volumes assigned drive le
tters by Windows.
This should allow disks previous not selectable to be imagable. (unformatted d
rives, Linux drives, etc..)
- Various GUI changes:
ListView changed to TreeView control. This changed is to allow showing of par
tition information for each drive.
New flashing complete dialog to indicate imaging completion and success or fa
ilure.
Running count of number of drives selected for imaging is now displayed.
Release 1.2.1006
WIN32 release 7 Oct 2015
- Addressed issue where extending partition on some NTFS drive would fail if the
USB drive (preimaged) was already partitioned as max sized.
Release 1.2.1005
WIN32 release 9 Sep 2015
- Addressed issue where some drives have the same volume GUID and would cause im
ageUSB unable to determine disk number for the UFD.
Release 1.2.1004
WIN32 release 29 Jul 2015
- Addressed issue during image creation where imageUSB will error out before fin
ishing the image for certain drive.
Release 1.2.1003
WIN32 release 30 Mar 2015
-Format will add an MBR at sector 0 and partition entry table will point to the
partition that was formatted.
-Updated Format progress bar to stop and reset when completed.
Release 1.2.1002
WIN32 release 24 Mar 2015
-Updated and added various Text/Strings to be more relevant to the action being
performed.
-Added speed in status. Speed is typically govern by the slowest IO (e.g. write)
. Speed displayed is the
average for the entire process.
-Increased visible GUI log size
Release 1.2.1001
WIN32 release 23 Mar 2015
-Fixed crash when creating Image with Post Image Verification enabled.
Release 1.2.1000
WIN32 release 20 Mar 2015
-Fixed issue when Zeroing GPT formatted drives. Will not correctly zero MBR and
Primary GPT and Secondary GPT.
-New Zero behavior. Zeroing will wipe entire drive (write 0x00 to the whole driv
e).
-Added option to extend partition when writing image. Only supported for single
-For Writing to flash drive, upon write failure, imageUSB will retry up to 3 tim
es to rewrite to the failed location.
Release 1.1.1006
WIN32 release 6 October 2011
-Improved debug logging.
Release 1.1.1005
WIN32 release 6 July 2011
- Added the ability to write .ISO to USB drives. The drive must be bigger than t
he iso and the drive size will
be truncated to the size of the iso. To recover lost storage, use Window's Dis
k Management tool.
Release 1.1.1004
WIN32 release 25 January 2011
- Fixed an issue that would occur if more than one drives are being processed at
once (happened sporadically).
- Added "-d" command line option that will log additional debug info
- Fixed typos
Release 1.1.1003
WIN32 release 22 December 2010
- Notification/prompt when imaging finishes.
- Option for post image verification for both creating from and writing from usb
drives.
Previously, writing to drives always was verified. Verification may double the
imaging
time.
- Each image created with imageUSB will have an accompanying log file written wi
th checksum
values calculated during the creation process.
- MD5 & SHA1 checksum calculation implemented
- Now with more warning prompts! To prevent accidently destroying data.
- Simultaneous image creation is now supported. See the help documentation for n
aming
convention used.
- Running imageUSB with -l command line will save a log (The same one as seen at
the bottom of the GUI).
Release 1.1.1002
WIN32 release 15 December 2010
- Fixed issue with overall progress bar not updating for subsequent writes after
aborting.
- Cosmetic / UI changes/fixes
- Signed Executable
Release 1.1.1001
WIN32 release 8 December 2010
- Concurrent image writing to UFD.
- Asthetics Changes.
Release 1.1.1000
WIN32 release 1 December 2010
- GUI version.
Release 1.0.1001
WIN32 release 23 July 2010
- The USB Flash Drive data is now verified.
Release 1.0.1000
WIN32 release 17 June 2010
- First version.
Support
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For technical support, questions, suggestions, please check the help file for
our email address or visit our web page at http://www.passmark.com
Enjoy..
The PassMark Development team