Have you ever felt the need of backing-up your flash drive entirely? I mean keeping a backup of the stuff you’ve got on your USB Disk maybe as easy as just copying it all off to a folder on your hard drive - but how about a nicely compressed single-file image… something similar to the partition backup images created by Norton Ghost, Acronis TrueImage and the likes?
Here’s this tiny (97KB compressed) freeware utility named USB Image Tool that lets you do just that - minus the bulk and complexities of the above mentioned programs. The tool helps you create exact images of your USB memory sticks or MP3 Players (which are mounted as USB drives). Talking of MP3 Players - think of the ability to alternate between pre-defined sets (images) of music with the help of this tool.
Here’s a quick run-down of the features…
- Create image files of USB drives
- Restore images of USB drives
- Compressed image file format (using XZip 1.3 routines)
- Display USB Device information
- Maintain a list of your favourtie images
- Single click backups and restores through an extremely simple interface
The tool requires .NET Framework 2.0 to operate - so make you sure have it installed.
Incidentally, if you are still in the habit of using those frail little floppy disks, you can very well take the help of DiskXS - a similar tool by the same author, to create backup images of your disks before they decide to give up on you.
Get USB Image Tool here.
