Win32 Disk Imager Reviews

Good software! For those who crying about “it spoils my drive”, etc.: do not let the simple interface blinds you, you are trying to accomplish a serious system job, be educated, be careful with options, watch warnings and other dialogs, do not rush, think twice! And everything will be fine with your hard drives, etc. The apps itself is statically linked, easy to use and doing what it is intended to do perfectly. Nice little buddy and useful tool. Good job and respect to the author. Thanks a lot for your time and effort!

This software just overwrote my external USB hardrive, an 1TB WD MyBook.. First time I started it, it listed only my usbcard readers, second time, it listed only one usbcard reader, and my external drive (which was not listed first time), and selected the external drive first.. So beware of this thing.. And now I'm looking for something to rescue my drive..

Used this Software to write a image file to my 2Gb SHDC chip on a USB 2.0 Micro SD Card Reader on a Dell XPS17 Win7 Ultimate SP1 64Bit OS. At the same time I had attached 2x USB 3.0 WD My Passport 2TB Model WD20NMVW Hard Drives loaded with 2 Year of supper important work. One formatted as Fat32 and the other with the same Data as a Backup on a NTFS File format. After using Win32 Disk Imager Release 0.9 for Windows to write the *.3ds file to the Flash Drive it did perform this task well but at the same time it did also format the other two attached USB 2TB WD Drives. Now 2 days later after using all kind of Partition and File Recovery Software such as EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Pro or Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Pro or Paragon Partition Manager 12 Pro or Hirens 15 Boot DVD, I still haven't been able to recover the Data. I didn't touch or install the Drives since I won't risk to lose more. It took Win32 Disk Imager Release 0.9 less than 10 sec to erase all and I assume it must be some kind of Partition Table or Root Sector such as a Quick format type thing, but the data must me there. So my hint is, if you use this Software disconnect any other US Drive. It also doesn't show the 3ds content before writing it would be a nice feature. Any tips greatly welcome...

Good software -Use it to make Raspberry PI images to sd cards.

The UI is pretty utilitarian, but it gets the job done... so you really can't complain too much.

Works great at an ok speed. Overall amazing program!

0.8 is really an approvement to 0.7 (startup time). But it's still not possible to make a backup if the image file does not exist. And I still like more the behaviour of 0.6: - Window position to default - Initial dir not set But as long as I cannot make new backups, I have to wait for 0.9 anyway. Still using 0.6.

It warns that "writing to a physical device [a Kingston DT101 flash disk d:] may corrupt it" but what else is the purpose of the software? ...and then it goes on to corrupt the flash disk. So, not much use, then.

Version 0.7 is a regress for me. It takes more than 20 seconds to start. And why is my user directory opened? Disk imager is so small, I place it near my images. The file dialog is flagged with "file must exist", unable to create a new file. I love the old version. But, sorry, 0.7 is useless for me.

very useful when I am instaling a lot of servers with diffrent os.

Hi, I've downloaded the image-writer following instructions in my Raspberry Pi book. It refers to a .img file but once I extract the files I don't have an image file - can any one guide me please?

Have used this product for over two months for creating / backup of SD cards for Raspberry PI. It has worked flawlessly and I wouldn't be without it.

"That was easy"

Haven't seen any other comments since the last update but I still get the empty Drive box when dskwipe sees my SD card. WinXP Pro SP3 on Dell XPS M1210 with built-in reader Device Manager sees it as a disk using a driver from 2002, no update available. File Exploder read the volume label. IOW, everything seems normal.

Sorry to say but on my laptop I cannot write image to sd card, as I cannot select SDhost adapter where my SD card resides. Windows Vista see my SD card, and I can use id as disk with no problems. This program shows empty selection box for device. If I put in USB flash disk it shows as location where I can write Image, but SD card is not available.

Every time I try to make an image from a Raspberry Pi SD card I get the error "An error occurred when attempting to lock the volume. Error 5: Access is denied"

nice tool for installing OS on workstations without CD/DVD

Thanks a lot! I finally got a fast way to generate a FreeBSD USB boot

Very good app. =)

Disk Imager is very good

Fast and Easy to use

Nice and Easy to use

Good and useful software