This program is designed to write a raw disk image to a removable device or backup a removable device to a raw image file. It is very useful for embedded development, namely Arm development projects (Android, Ubuntu on Arm, etc). Anyone is free to branch and modify this program. Patches are always welcome.
This release is for Windows 7/8.1/10. It will should also work on Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 (although not tested by the developmers). For Windows XP/Vista, please use v0.9 (in the files archive).
Warning: Issues have been reported when using to write to USB Floppy drives (and occasionally other USB devices, although very rare). While this has been fixed in v1.0, it is highly recommended that before an image is written to a device, the user should do a Read to a temporary file first. If this fails, please report the failure along with your system information.
Known issues:
Currently, the program will crash if you are using a Ramdisk. This is being debugged.
Features
- Raw reading and writing to removable media
Project Samples
Follow Win32 Disk Imager
User Reviews
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Nice project. I use it since may years.
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Been using this tool for years and never had a problem with it. It is not particularly user friendly, but it works.
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This software is absolutely horrible! It bricked my USB drive after trying to flash it with a linux iso. I never imagined a simple tool to copy over the files from an iso could destroy a USB drive corrupting it completely. I'm going through the steps to try and revive it, but all my attempts so far have been futile. This software should be taken off of sourceforge. Maybe it worked in the past on older versions of Windows, but now that the majority of Microsoft users are running WIn10 it should be removed. Bug report: bugs.launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+bug/1086520
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It is very useful for embedded development, namely, Arm development projects!
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Some issues to start