USB Image Tool to make Full Backup of Ipod and USB Flash Drive

July 7th, 2008 ~ No Comments

Here is a free tool which you can use to create images of USB memory sticks and MP3 players.
USB Image Tool can create images of USB memory sticks and MP3 players, that are mounted as USB drives. It allows you switch between images with different music styles on your MP3 Player or to make an exact backup image of your USB Stick.

It took about 3 minutes to create a non-compressed full backup .img file for a 2 GB USB Flash Drive. As for a compressed image file, it took longer because of the time taken to compress the .img file to .imz. USB Image Tool uses XZip 1.3 compression routines based on Info-ZIP. XZip 1.3 by Lucian Wischik, Hans Dietrich. If you have a 2GB USB flash drive and you’ve only used up to 900MB of the space, the uncompressed backup image file size will still be around nearly 2GB. Reason is it copies everything on your USB flash drive including the empty space.

USB Image Tool requires the .NET Framework 2.0 and runs on Windows XP/Vista. Please take note that Windows 2000 is not supported. The usbit32.dll included in the archive must be in the same directory as the EXE file.