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ImageUSB, developed by PassMark Software, is a free Windows utility designed to create and replicate exact bit-level images of USB Flash Drives (UFDs) on a mass scale; the current release is version 1.5.1007, the first and only edition catalogued to date. Operating within the disk imaging & cloning category, the program enables administrators to write a single image concurrently to multiple USB sticks, preserving every byte of data—including unused sectors, slack space and the Master Boot Record—so that bootable or forensic duplicates remain identical to the source. Beyond straight duplication, ImageUSB can write ISO files byte-by-byte directly to a UFD, extract ISO contents onto removable media, install PassMark’s own OSForensics™ bootable tool OSFClone, zero-fill an entire drive to sanitise it, or wipe only the MBR/GPT entries while leaving the rest of the disk intact. The software also offers a force-reformat option that can resurrect drives previously rendered inaccessible by other tools, recovering capacity that appeared lost. Because the utility performs sector-level copies, users must match image and target sizes carefully: writing a 2 GB image to an 8 GB stick, for example, leaves the excess space inaccessible until a subsequent reformat. The package is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always supplying the latest version and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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