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Backup your flash drives with USB Image Tool
by Brad Linder Jul 4th 2008 at 5:00PM
If you keep work documents, portable applications, or other important data on a flash drive, it's a good idea to back it up occasionally. USB Image Tool makes the process about as simple as can be. You plug in a drive, hit backup, and choose a location to store the image. You can also select a compressed file format if you want to save a little bit of space, but it takes longer to create a compressed image.
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Fyrewerx said 5:33PM on 7-04-2008
It seems this would be great for backing up, and "creating" boot from USB devices, like portable Linux or UltimateBootCD.
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ewok5 said 7:29AM on 7-05-2008
ewok5:
I have a terrific bootable USB key with a LINUX distro on it, and was hoping this product would enable me to backup to an image, and then restore it to another USB Key.
No luck!
USB Image Tool creates an image, and even allows me to "Restore" it to another USB Key. So far - so good, EXCEPT that the restored image will not boot.
Jash Sayani said 7:33AM on 7-05-2008
I love this !!! Mac alternative..?
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archpope said 7:11AM on 7-06-2008
This will definitely help those of us who don't ever seem to have enough flash drives.
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archpope said 7:11AM on 7-06-2008
Well, it would have, but there is no love for us x64 early adopters today.
Ian said 4:09PM on 7-06-2008
Early adopters? x64 OS's have been out for 4 years.
Kim said 3:22PM on 7-17-2008
looks gtreat
Does it work with PE as well ?
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