USBWriter Reviews

Don't eject disk after selecting it from the dropdown until you're done writing it or it can damage other hard drives. --------- \ After it writes it may make the USB drive invisible to Windows, or impossible to format, this is not a fault with the program. Windows cannot read all USB drives. The fix is easy and takes a few seconds, here is how you wipe it clean back to normal: --------- You can use the utilities that come with Windows to do this without downloading anything else. DISKPART from the command line as Administrative user will do what you need. Windows+R > cmd.exe ------------ diskpart ------------ Once inside of the diskpart utility type in ----------- list disk ----------- Select the USB disk by typing ----------- select disk (x) ---------- and then ----------- clean ------- , this should now wipe the USB stick, and windows disk utility will be able to see it again. Make sure you select the right stick!

I used this to write a linux iso to my usb drive. Did exactly what I expected and was simple to use. Perfect for me!

This program is f***ing toxic, smashed a 8gig flashdrive and a 16gig sd card, and is beyond repair, just by making a bootable arch drive. Whoever made this, F*** you. Don't use this program, it may work but it is definitely not worth the trouble. There are better options! Powergold1 provides solid advice, though it wasn't working for me and neither were gparted :( EDIT: Okay it seemed like the major problem was in the mounted path after creating the different filesystem, I was going for mounting until I noticed the "automount" command. Using this before creating a new partition made it possible for me to clean the disk again :) I have seen lots of people fixing this using cmd+diskpart, but none of them had the same specific problem, but were related to write-protection. I was denied access cause it had no path, responding that the file simply didn't exist. 2 stars, still toxic :p

I used this to write the arch linux iso to my usb drive. It's nice and simple and does what it's supposed to do. Important notice: If you're on windows and you want to use your usb drive for something else after having used the iso for whatever you wanted to do with it, you'll find that there's no space on your usb drive and windows won't let you format it as you're used to. Don't panic, your usb drive still works. This only happens because this software creates a new partition on your usb drive where it writes the image, which Windows doesn't expect. To undo that you do the following: Open a cmd.exe and type: diskpart in diskpart type: list disk to show your drives. Then type: select x where x is the number of your usb drive (it's usually the last one in the list). After that: clean which deletes everything that's on your usb drive, including the iso and its partition. Next step: create partition primary now you have a partition on your usb and you only need to format it. Type: format fs=fat32 quick And lastly you assign a letter to the usb drive by typing: assign After that you can close diskpart and the cmd and your usb drive should be back to normal.

DANGEROUS! My 32GB USB is now 8MB.

Used it and lost my hdd partition table. Examing my partition table found out, that usbwriter wrote the image to the first sectors of my hdd. Looked at source and found out the check for removable device is done upon choosing drive in dialog and not before writing. The check for removable media should be added to MainDlgWrite.c in ThreadRoutine() before opening device. (My scenario: Choosed drive in dialog, removed device, entered again and pressed write....)

Great app, but it ruined my USB drive. The drive won't register on the PC and the volume size has gone from 16 GB to 31 MB.

Very simple, small little application with no extra stuff forcing you to download other crap. Even fixing the USB as FAT32 after using as bootable device is easy with another application. 10/5 Awesome application!

using it since it is the smallest usb writer i've found. (and it was mentioned in the archwiki^^). I don't miss anything

Simple, does exactly the job it is supposed to do ! Thanks for this great app !

Can't run. Missing MSVCR110.dll (Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable). Thus suggesting that the description is wrong.

Tiny and wrote a bootable ISO image to media with no problem. Very simple to use and works for USB attached drives (optical and flash, internal and external). An essential tool nicely coded.