Utilities Windows
ImageUSB
Create USB drive images or write one image to several USB flash drives at once with PassMark's free Windows utility. Writing and zeroing erase target-drive contents.
- Operating system
- Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11
- Architecture
- Publisher labels this release WIN32; no separate architecture packages identified
- Download package
- ZIP archive containing ImageUSB.exe
Extract before launching. Publisher lists 256 MB RAM and 4 MB free disk space, plus storage for image files. No software execution or Windows compatibility testing performed.
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What is ImageUSB?
ImageUSB is a Windows utility for making exact bit-level images of USB flash drives and writing an image to multiple drives concurrently. It is useful when duplicating the same USB setup rather than copying individual files: the publisher says its imaging process preserves unused and slack space as well as the Master Boot Record, including when duplicating bootable USB drives.
The application also offers whole-drive zeroing, clearing MBR or GPT entries, and reformatting to reclaim drive space. These are destructive operations, not file-management shortcuts. Back up anything needed from the target drives and check the selected devices before writing, zeroing or reformatting them.
Capacity and image format matter. PassMark warns that writing a 2 GB image to an 8 GB drive can leave only 2 GB usable until the drive is reformatted. Directly writing a CD ISO byte by byte does not guarantee a usable USB drive in every operating system; version 1.5 also supports extracting ISO contents to a USB drive. Do not assume every ISO becomes a bootable USB simply because it can be written.
The publisher distributes version 1.5.1007 as a ZIP archive: extract it to a directory and launch ImageUSB.exe. Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 are listed as supported. The screenshot is the publisher's older version 1.5 Build 1000 interface, not a test or capture of build 1007.
What it offers
- Create an image of a USB flash drive and write an image to several USB drives concurrently.
- Preserve bit-level image contents, including unused space, slack space and the Master Boot Record.
- Duplicate bootable USB flash-drive images.
- Zero an entire USB drive or clear its MBR and GPT entries; reformat drives to reclaim space.
- Write ISO files byte by byte or use the ISO-content extraction supported since version 1.5.
Good to know
- Writing images, zeroing or reformatting destroys existing target-drive contents. Back up needed data and verify the selected drives first.
- A smaller image written to a larger USB drive can limit usable capacity until reformatting; choose drives with a size similar to the image.
- Direct CD ISO imaging may not produce a USB drive usable in every operating system; writing an ISO is not a universal bootability guarantee.
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