creating images of anything storage stuff, please read to understand.

[thinkpadcollection]

I tried imageusb from passmark and has a problem, cannot handle different usb sizes automatically. Say, image a 4GB image from usb memeory stick as backup file on a computer, then image this onto another 16GB usb stick, I end up with working 4GB usb stick that behaves exactly like old backed up 4GB stick but second partition is inaccessible. Which I had to brutalize my way through using disk part commands to get full capacity back of that stick. Computer management, disk management will not touch that one, disk part will.

What I need is good open source usb imager program that handles *.img not just *.bin images and handle different sized usb sticks and leave one partition, not two parititions?

Cheers, thinkpadcollection

[Utwig]

Clonezilla?

Linux with dd and gzip commands.

[thinkpadcollection]

The special issue is I think if I assume right imaging from bootable usb drive is special process and have to be done just right to function?

Cheers, thinkpadcollection

[Utwig]

Unless your utility supports it, generally you have to resize partition anyway.

I haven't had the need to image usb drive yet but for HDDs Acronis used to be good, have you looked into it?

Otherwise for weird stuff like Apple I use Gparted live CD. I use dd in CTRL+ALT+F2 to clone drives and then gparted to resize partitions. IMO just use gparted if diskpart is too hard for you to resize after ending with smaller partition after reimaging.