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About ImageUSB
ImageUSB writes an image to several USB flash drives at once, making exact bit-level copies that include unused and slack space and the Master Boot Record. It can also read a drive into an image, write an ISO file byte by byte to a USB drive, and install OSFClone for use with PassMark OSForensics.
Other functions zero a whole drive or only its MBR and GPT entries, and reformat drives that are hard to format to reclaim lost space. Directly imaging a CD ISO may not give a working USB drive on every system.
Strengths
- Writes one image to many USB drives concurrently
- Bit-level copies that preserve slack space and the MBR
- Can zero a drive or just its MBR and GPT entries
- Reformats drives that are hard to format
Limitations
- Writing CD ISO images directly may not produce a bootable drive on every system
- Closed source
- Designed mainly around USB flash drives
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to download and use.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- PassMark Software
- Platforms
- Windows
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Duplicating a USB flash drive image onto many drives at once
- Categories
- Disk tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to ImageUSB
Compare allSoftware that can replace ImageUSB for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Popsicle
A Linux utility from System76 that writes a disk image to several USB drives at once.
Popsicle is an open-source Linux tool from System76 that flashes several USB drives in parallel, with GTK and command-line versions.
balenaEtcher
Writes an OS image to a USB stick or SD card, verifies every byte, and refuses to target your hard drive.
balenaEtcher is open source and cross-platform, verifying each write and hiding system drives, but writes one image per stick.
Win32 Disk Imager
A Windows tool for writing raw disk images to USB drives and SD cards, or backing them up.
Win32 Disk Imager is open-source Windows software that writes and reads raw images on one drive at a time.
USBImager
A minimal cross-platform app that writes compressed disk images to USB drives.
USBImager is a minimal open-source cross-platform writer that handles compressed images without unpacking, writing to one drive at a time.
Rufus
Writes a bootable USB drive from an ISO, and can strip the Windows 11 install requirements while doing it.
Rufus is open-source Windows software focused on bootable installers from ISOs, writing one drive at a time.
ImageUSB as an alternative
Listings that name ImageUSB as an alternative.
SD Memory Card Formatter
The SD Association's official utility for formatting SD, SDHC, SDXC and SDUC memory cards to specification.
ImageUSB is a free Windows PassMark tool that reformats hard-to-format drives and zeroes them, but it is designed around USB flash drives rather than SD cards.
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Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Impression
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Ventoy
Prepare a USB stick once, then boot any ISO by copying the file onto it.
Fedora Media Writer
A tool that downloads Fedora images and writes them to USB flash drives.
Raspberry Pi Imager
The official tool for writing Raspberry Pi OS and other images to SD cards and USB drives.
f3
A command-line tool that tests flash drives and memory cards for fake capacity and real performance.
ValiDrive
A free GRC utility that checks whether a USB drive really holds its advertised capacity.
