Clone Bootable USB Drive to ISO

Devastator0 on 06/03/2024 - 16:50
Last edited 06/03/2024 - 17:37 by 1 other user

Hi OzBargain Brainstrust, I am hoping that someone out there might be able to help me out. I'm after a piece of software that I can use to reliably take a full, bootable ISO image of a bootable flash drive?

For some context, at my workplace, whenever we receive a new model of device, whether it be a Desktop or Laptop, I take an out of the box image of it using the built in Windows "Recovery Drive" application. I do this so if I ever need to properly factory reset a device, I can do this. I'm in a situation where I need to share out these with some of my interstate colleagues, especially for older model devices where they can't just make an out of the box recovery image of an existing, stock device due to all of those models having been imaged with our corporate build.

Hopefully I'm making sense so far.

So basically what I'd want to be doing is making bootable .ISO images of these bootable Windows Recovery USB flash drives I have and host them so my colleagues can grab them as needed.

Many thanks for any responses/suggestions!

Computing

Comments

  • duk242 on 06/03/2024 - 17:02
    +1

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

    Here ya go. Saves it as an IMG file, raw bit for bit copy of a drive. Compress it before sending to your friends cause it'll have a lot of 0's in it.

    • Devastator0 on 06/03/2024 - 17:11

      Hmmm, ok I'll have a look into that one and see if it achieves what I want. Ideally targeting one that will write directly into an ISO.

      • duk242 on 06/03/2024 - 17:14

        You can also try Imgburn - https://www.imgburn.com/
        I believe it does ISO files? Bit for bit copying is best to create an exact image, but for what you're doing ImgBurn might do the job better?

  • liquornoodlescabbage on 06/03/2024 - 21:41

    Macrium Reflect does the job, can take a complete image of a system, and compresses it to their own format, but is super easy to restore again. Doesn't require a license for non-commerical use.

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