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Why Clone Bootable SD Card in Windows?

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ImageUSB is a free utility which lets you write an image concurrently to multiple USB Flash Drives. Capable of creating exact bit-level copies of USB Flash Drive (UFDs), ImageUSB is an extremely effective tool for the mass duplication of UFDs.

Win32 Disk Imager is a Windows tool for reading data from an SD card and writing to a image file, also, it can be used to write a image file to a SD card. You may first use it to create a image file from a 'Master' SD card, then write the image back to a different SD card to complete the SD card clone. Dec 31, 2020 Recoverit Free Data Recovery is a reliable SD card recovery tool that gives you a full chance of getting your deleted/lost data back. It supports to restore the files which were damaged by virus, power failure, accidental delectation as well as format.

SD cards are widely used on tablet, digital camera, smart phone, music player, and playstation and so on. SD cards made by Samsung, Raspberry PI, SanDisk, etc., earn great popularity among users all over the world. A bootable SD card could minimize the downtime ofthe operating system by swapping to another function and work environment.

Generally speaking, a user would like to clone a bootable SD card for these two mainreasons:

• For backup. Duplicating a bootable SD card to another place is a good way to protectthis bootable operating system. When the original SD card get lost or damaged, one canget the same environment as soon as possible.

• For device upgrading. As a removable storage device, SD card is vulnerable to anydamages it receive, virus infection, human error, violent striking, device failure, andso on. Cloning SD card to largerSD card or newer one dramatically improves the performance and security.

You may have other reasons for copying a bootable SD card, but more important thing is tofigure out how to clone the device. After all, Windows misses the cloning feature.

Best Free SD Card Copier

AOMEI Backupper Standard is free SD card copier thatwill help you clone bootable SD card to another SD card, external storage, or computer. Withits powerful features, you are allowed to clone from larger bootable SD card to smaller SDcard and vice versa. You can also make an exact copy of the bootable SD card, i.e. withoutchanging partition's size and layout, by cloning the SD card sector-by-sector.

The 'Disk Clone' feature will clone SD card with multiple partitions, if it has. The 'DiskCopy' feature will also help you backup the bootable SD card into an image file, better tosave, if you like. The 'Create Bootable Media' utility in this software will help you createa bootable device of a mini operating system (WinPE) with AOMEI Backupper Standardinstalled, realizing SD card copier portable.

The cloning software is user-friendly and easy-to-use, so it is suitable for all groups ofusers. Free download (safe and clean) and have a try.

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How to Clone Bootable SD Card Step by Step?

1. Connect the bootable SD card to a running Windows OS based computer and make sure it canbe detected. You may need a SD card reader if there is no card slot. Connect the destinationdevice as well if you want to clone bootable SD card to another.

2. Install and run AOMEI Backupper Standard. Click 'Clone' and then 'DiskClone'.

3. Select the source disk, i.e. the bootable SD card.

4. Select the destination disk. You can clone the bootable device to SD card, flash drive,portable drive, internal disk, external disk, etc.

5. On the summary page, preview the operation and specify customization settings in thelower-left pane. Click 'Start Clone' after your confirmation.

Tips:

• Edit partitions on the destination disk: you can add unused space to all partitionshere.

• Sector by sector clone: by checking this option, the software will copy every sectoron the bootable SD card. Do not check this option if you clone from large SD card tosmaller.

• You may need to set the cloned drive as Active in Disk Management if you cannot bootit successfully.

• To clone disk with commandprompt, please upgrade to its Professional edition.

Bootable SD Card vs. USB Drive

Some users also wondering the differences between bootable SD card and USB drive whilesearching for the way to clone a bootable SD card. Here will give a brief comparison tothem.

Secure Digital (SD) card and USB flash drive are both great removable storage in transferringand storing small amount of data. They use non-volatile memory to store files. When it comesto the question 'which is better for bootable device, SD card or USB drive', following twoaspects should be taken into consideration.

• Transfer rate. In general, a USB 3.0 flash drive is much faster than Classic 10 SDcard in reading and writing speed. However, a Classic 10 SD card is possibly has sameperformance than a USB 2.0 flash drive.

• Device capacity. You'll get greater capacity on SD card device than a USB flash drivewhen you spend the same money.

One of the biggest differences between USB and SD card should be USB has the universalcompatibility, which allows it to connect to any device with a USB port. While using a SDcard, you may need a SD card reader when the device misses a SD card slot.

In a nutshell, SD card is fairly enough for common use. If you're a speed and performancepurchaser, USB flash drive is a good choice.

Conclusion

To clone bootable SD card to another SD card or USB flash drive, AOMEI Backupper Standardwould definitely help you out within four steps only. Other than cloning bootable SD card,you could also clone hard drive to SSD or clone SSD to HDD in Windows10 for better performance.

Meanwhile, it is a reliable backup and restore software which provides robust backup solution protecting your computer andoperating system.

Overview

ImageUSB is a free utility which lets you write an image concurrently to multiple USB Flash Drives. Capable of creating exact bit-level copies of USB Flash Drive (UFDs), ImageUSB is an extremely effective tool for the mass duplication of UFDs. ImageUSB also supports writing of an ISO file byte by byte directly to an USB drive (*). ImageUSB can also be used to install OSFClone to a USB Drive for use with PassMark OSForensics™.

Unlike other USB duplication tools, ImageUSB can preserve all unused and slack space during the cloning process, including the Master Boot Record (MBR). ImageUSB can perform flawless mass duplications of all UFD images, including bootable UFDs.

imageUSB includes functionality to Zero a USB Flash Drive. This will replace the contents of the entire drive with 0s. Or alternatively to just Zero the MBR and/or GPT entries that exists on the drive. In addition, imageUSB has the ability to reformat even hard to format drives and reclaim any disk space that may be lost previously.

(*) CD ISO images use a different file systems compared to USB drives. So the direct imaging of ISO9660, Joliet or UDF file system, from a CD, to a USB drive, might not allow the USB drive to function in all operating systems. A reformat can recover the drive however. As of V1.5, imageUSB now supports extraction of ISO contents onto USB Drive.

Warning: Due to the forensic nature of image duplication by ImageUSB, please ensure that you select UFDs with a storage size similar to the image you wish to duplicate. For example, if a 2GB image is copied to an 8GB USB Flash Drive, the drive will only be able to use two out of the eight gigabytes of storage space. In this scenario, users will need to reformat the UFD in order to access the rest of the storage space.

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The current version of ImageUSB is v1.5.1003(*) (2449 KB).

Previous versions

Installation Instructions

Download ImageUSB.zip from the link above and extract the contents of the archive to a directory of your choosing.
To start using ImageUSB, double click on the ImageUSB.exe application.

Price & License

ImageUSB is a free utility. You can use it & distribute it in an unmodified form as long as credit is given. You can't sell it and we don't offer any warranty. Use at your own risk. PassMark Software is not responsible for any lost or destroyed data.

System Requirements

Release history

Release 1.5.1003

WIN32 release 25 Sep 2020

-Fixed bug where user is unable to select a read-only file for writing to UFD.

Release 1.5.1002

WIN32 release 24 Aug 2020

-Detected bootable ISOs will have their primary partition marked active.

-Fixed bug where the progress bar would rollover and show incorrect progress on writing ISOs over 4GB.

-When writing ISOs, user can now select either FAT32 or NTFS. If file within ISO is greater than 4GB, NTFS will be used irregardless of selection.

Release 1.5.1001

WIN32 release 20 Nov 2019

-Fixed a bug where images created with V1.5.1000 had incorrect imageUSB header and was not being subsequently recognized by imageUSB. If using other imaging tools, specify an offset of 512 bytes to skip the header

Release 1.5.1000

WIN32 release 25 Oct 2019

-Support for extraction the contents of the ISO image.

EXPERIMENTAL - Software will try to detect if ISO image is bootable and if so write appropriate bootloader. As of release only booting through UEFI seems to be working. Tested with Windows 10 ISO, Linux (Porteus-5.0rc, Ubuntu-19.04 and Mint 19.2 ISO images). NOT ALL ISO IMAGES WILL WORK. This functionality is experimental and may be removed from software at any time.

Log moved into it's own Window to allow for larger visible USB Drive List.

Release 1.4.1003

WIN32 release 16 Apr 2019

-Fixed bug where formmatting as NTFS may cause imageUSB to crash.

-Fixed bug where formattting as FAT32 for smaller drive would fail.

-Added imaging precheck for desintation freespace and allowed max file size for destination filesystem when creating image.

Release 1.4.1002

WIN32 release 21 Feb 2019

-Fixed bug where the software was incorrectly reporting/trying to clear the BitLocker status of the drive when detection failed.

Release 1.4.1001

WIN32 release 11 Feb 2019

-Fixed issue with failure with overwriting BitLocked drives. imageUSB will now use VDS to force format the BitLocked volume before proceeding with writing the image.

-Fixed several possible crashes related to writing to log file.

Release 1.4.1000

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-Extend Partition will add a new partition to fill remaining space when writing image smaller than drive if extending is not an option. New Partition will be formatted using NTFS. If more than one drive is selected in the write imaging processing. Due to likely disk signature collusion, drives may be placed offline by Windows. As such Extend or Add Partition may only work on first drive selected.

-Fixed bug where the Cancel Button on the Yes/No/Cancel Dialog Prompt before Imaging doesn't do anything. Should Now correctly cancel operation.

-Up total drive limit to 50 drives. All drives connected to computer (irregardless if they are USB drives) are counted toward this total. Note: We have never tested this many drives at once.

-Dropped support for Windows XP, minimum OS supported is now Windows Vista.

Release 1.3.1006

WIN32 release 13 Mar 2018

-Fixed word wrapping issue in log after resizing window.

-Should now run on WindowsXP SP3 again. Support for Windows XP may be dropped in the future.

Release 1.3.1005

WIN32 release 12 Mar 2018

-Main Window is resizable vertically.

-Fixed possible write failure bug when trying to reimage a drive that may have not have a mount point assigned (i.e. drive letter) to its volumes. imageUSB would fail to properly lock/unmount volume. As seen in MemTest86 on some Windows 10 machines.

Release 1.3.1004

WIN32 release 19 Oct 2017

-Added FAT32 as a format option.

-Fixed a bug with partition extension not operating correctly on NTFS partitions after imaging.

Release 1.3.1002

WIN32 release 16 Sep 2016

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-Fixed a bug causing imageUSB to incorrectly fail a verification by reading more bytes than available on the destination image/drive.

-Fixed a bug on Windows XP where the GUI log would display an unknown character at the end of each line.

Release 1.3.1001

WIN32 release 26 Apr 2016

-Fixed a bug causing imageUSB to incorrectly write the header block back to the disk when image is not of even 1 MB chunks.

Release 1.3.1000

WIN32 release 19 Apr 2016

- ImageUSB now supports Physical Disks instead of only volumes assigned drive letters by Windows.

This should allow disks previous not selectable to be imagable. (unformatted drives, Linux drives, etc.)

- Various GUI changes:

ListView changed to TreeView control. This changed is to allow showing of partition information for each drive.

New flashing complete dialog to indicate imaging completion and success or failure.

Running count of number of drives selected for imaging is now displayed.

Release 1.2.1006

WIN32 release 7 Oct 2015

- Addressed issue where extending partition on some NTFS drive would fail if the USB drive (preimaged) was already partitioned as max sized.

Release 1.2.1005

WIN32 release 9 Sep 2015

- Addressed issue where some drives have the same volume GUID and would cause imageUSB unable to determine disk number for the UFD.

Release 1.2.1004

WIN32 release 29 Jul 2015

- Addressed issue during image creation where imageUSB will error out before finishing the image for certain drive.

Release 1.2.1003

WIN32 release 30 Mar 2015

-Format will add an MBR at sector 0 and partition entry table will point to the partition that was formatted.

-Updated Format progress bar to stop and reset when completed.

Release 1.2.1002

WIN32 release 24 Mar 2015

-Updated and added various Text/Strings to be more relevant to the action being performed.

-Added speed in status. Speed is typically govern by the slowest IO (e.g. write). Speed displayed is the

average for the entire process.

-Increased visible GUI log size

Release 1.2.1001

WIN32 release 23 Mar 2015

-Fixed crash when creating Image with Post Image Verification enabled.

Release 1.2.1000

WIN32 release 20 Mar 2015

-Fixed issue when Zeroing GPT formatted drives. Will not correctly zero MBR and Primary GPT and Secondary GPT.

-New Zero behavior. Zeroing will wipe entire drive (write 0x00 to the whole drive).

-Added option to extend partition when writing image. Only supported for single partition images with NTFS filesystem.

-Reformat option will Zero the drive (boot sector only) and reclaim any disk space and format the volume with NTFS filesystem. Requires Vista or later.

Release 1.1.1015

WIN32 release 26 Jun 2014

-Fixed issue when Zeroing GPT formatted drives. Will not correctly zero MBR and Primary GPT and Secondary GPT.

Release 1.1.1014

WIN32 release 16 Dec 2013

-Option to Zero the Master Boot Record. This will allow Windows to see the full size of the drive after reinserting. Windows should

automatically prompt to format unrecognized drive.

-New warning message if you try to write an image located on any of the drives selected as destination drives.

Release 1.1.1013

WIN32 release 16 Oct 2013

-Verify Bug Fix

-In DebugMode, when verifying option is checked and when image is a valid imageUSB .bin file, the checksum will be calculated on

the actual image as well. Drive checksum comparison will still be against checksum stored in header.

Release 1.1.1012

WIN32 release 16 Oct 2013

- Write verification is now supported for images not created with imageUSB. A checksum will be calculated for the image and then compared to the image written on the UFD.

- Enabled UFD list while imageUSB is writing/creating images. Should allow you to scroll the list to see progress of all UFD when more than 4 drives are used.

- Source code clean up

Release 1.1.1011

WIN32 release 18 March 2013

- Added ability to select '.img' files.

Release 1.1.1010

WIN32 release 22 October 2012

-Fixed a program crash when reading fake USB drives. It seems that some USB flash drives are tricking the Windows API to incorrectly recognizing the end of the drive.

Release 1.1.1009

WIN32 release 9 July 2012

-Allows writing images larger than destination drives. End of the image will be truncated and not be written to the drive.

Release 1.1.1008

WIN32 release 19 January 2012

-Added a delay on retry for failed write attempts. Will wait 1 sec before retry.

-Address an issue where writing image would sometimes fail with Error 5: Access is Denied.

Release 1.1.1007

WIN32 release 16 November 2011

-Fixed some erroneous debug logging messages.

-Tweaked verification settings, should report which offset verification failed at.

-For Writing to flash drive, upon write failure, imageUSB will retry up to 3 times to rewrite to the failed location.

Release 1.1.1006

WIN32 release 6 October 2011

-Improved debug logging.

Release 1.1.1005

WIN32 release 6 July 2011

- Added the ability to write .ISO to USB drives. The drive must be bigger than the iso and the drive size will

be truncated to the size of the iso. To recover lost storage, use Window's Disk Management tool.

Release 1.1.1004

WIN32 release 25 January 2011

- Fixed an issue that would occur if more than one drives are being processed at once (happened sporadically).

- Added '-d' command line option that will log additional debug info

- Fixed typos

Release 1.1.1003

WIN32 release 22 December 2010

- Notification/prompt when imaging finishes.

- Option for post image verification for both creating from and writing from usb drives.

Previously, writing to drives always was verified. Verification may double the imaging

time.

- Each image created with imageUSB will have an accompanying log file written with checksum

values calculated during the creation process.

- MD5 & SHA1 checksum calculation implemented

- Now with more warning prompts! To prevent accidently destroying data.

- Simultaneous image creation is now supported. See the help documentation for naming

convention used.

- Running imageUSB with -l command line will save a log (The same one as seen at the bottom of the GUI).

Release 1.1.1002

WIN32 release 15 December 2010

- Fixed issue with overall progress bar not updating for subsequent writes after aborting.

- Cosmetic / UI changes/fixes

- Signed Executable

Release 1.1.1001

WIN32 release 8 December 2010

- Concurrent image writing to UFD.

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- Asthetics Changes.

Release 1.1.1000

WIN32 release 1 December 2010

- GUI version.

Release 1.0.1001

WIN32 release 23 July 2010

- The USB Flash Drive data is now verified.

Release 1.0.1000

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WIN32 release 17 June 2010

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- First version.