How to Clone or Copy a Bootable Pen Drive
1. Download ImageUSB application from here. It
is available in ZIP format so you can use any good Compression tool to extract
ZIP files like WinZip or WinRAR.
2. Now insert your working bootable pen drive which is fully
functional and the one you want to clone onto the other slot available and start ImageUSB application
from extracted ZIP file folder.
3. ImageUSB will detect automatically both your pen drives. If
for any reason your pen drive shows as not available then click on refresh
button to detect the pen drive.
4. Now select your pen drive from the list and then click on Create from UFD option
(You can see it asStep 2 on
application). First we want to make a complete image of your pen drive and save
them on the system. So we have to select Create from
UFD option.
5. Now browse location where you want to save image of you
bootable pen drive and it will save it as .bin file on the system. Finally
click on Create image button and application will
start image creation process and save it on the computer. It will take a few
minutes depending on the system speed and pen drive size.
6. Now we have the full image of your multi bootable
pen drive and now need to burn it to another pen drive to make it multi
bootable identical to your cloned pen drive.
7. Insert your new pen drive and click on Refresh Drives to
detect your inserted pen drive (please remove your old one). Now you can see
your pen drive in the list, select your pen drive from list and then select
option Write to UFD (on application you can see it
as Step 2).
Note: Please backup your pen drive data because image burning
process will remove all data from the pen drive and write image file. So be
careful before starting this process.
8. Finally browse image (bin file) which you had created using step 5 on
this post and click on Write to UFD button to start image file burn
process into new pen drive. Again it will take few minutes and then your new
pen drive will become a clone of you old working multi-boot pen drive.
Now you have full image backup of your bootable USB
pen drive and using this image you can make many bootable clone pen drives.
Once you create image from Bootable pen drive you will never use any other
application to create a bootable pen drive.
Note: On application you can see one more option Post Image Verification, you can use this
application without selecting it. Just use it only for verification and
sometimes for application shows verification failed but pen drive works well.
So I think there is nothing to worry if application shows verification failed,
you pen drive will 100% work in such cases as well.
