Have you gotten USB to ISO utility to work?

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I found this utility http://www.isotousb.com/index.html that promises a one-click approach to "burning" any ISO image onto a USB drive, and then being able to boot off that USB drive.

I tried this utility with two different USB drives, one that is 2 GB and one that is 16 GB. I've run Memtest+ 4.20 from both of these USB drives without any problem, so I'm wondering if this utility really works.

Note that this utility erase whatever is on the drive, so I don't think it would be useful to first make the drive bootable.

If this utility doesn't work, can any one recommend another one-click utility for this purpose.
 
melteye said:
For Windows 7/8: http://images2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/w7udt/1.0/en-us/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe

For everything else: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
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Thanks but I'm not clear on some things, after going to the MS home page for USB-DVD-tool and also the home page for unetbootin.

Will the MS tool not work for any ISOs except Win 7 (and now Win 8)?

Is the unetbootin tool only for putting Linux distros on a USB drive?

As an example of what I might want to do, I use Acronis Disk Director Home, which gives you the option of burning Rescue Media. The program creates an ISO for you, that you are supposed to burn. Could I use either of these tools to put that Rescue Media on a USB drive.

As another example, I might download MS Office 2010 from MS, and that comes in the form of an ISO (non-bootable). Can I use either of these tools to put that ISO on a USB drive so I can do the install faster and without wasting a DVD blank media?
 
What version of Acronis Disk Director Home are you using? I thought it had a Rescue Media USB creator built-in to the software.

Unetbootin is used for linux based distros and tools (I use it for creating GParted drives.)

As for copying the contents of an ISO (non-bootable, such as MS Office) just decompress the contents of the ISO to your flash drive... using 7-zip, WinRAR, etc.
 
melteye said:
What version of Acronis Disk Director Home are you using? I thought it had a Rescue Media USB creator built-in to the software.
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Ooops. Sorry that I forgot to mention that I'm using Acronis DDH 11.

Unetbootin is used for linux based distros and tools (I use it for creating GParted drives.)

As for copying the contents of an ISO (non-bootable, such as MS Office) just decompress the contents of the ISO to your flash drive... using 7-zip, WinRAR, etc.
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That's what I do now, but that's an extra step. :)
 
I've used unetbootin with success. It is geared towards linux distros, but in the program you can select any ISO
 
If you want to have your office install media on the flashdrive, you need to throw in virtualclonedrive or http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/ (there's a potable version) onto your drive also.
I've just started using yumi for installing images onto flash, and it's been working great so far for memtest, clonezilla, gparted, slax, but gave me trouble with the windows 7 installer. I didn't reformat my flash drive from ntfs to fat32 though, that might be the reason. It didn't remove my previous data.
 
I use yumi since you can make a multi boot usb with it. Just throw a couple linux distros, win7/8, ophcrack, etc. on it and you're good to go with just one usb.
 
TCM said:
http://rufus.akeo.ie/

The End.
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Never heard of it, been using the Windows DVD Download Tool thing (what a name that app has) and Unetbootin for a long time without issues but, this Rufus thing is simply AWESOME so thanks for the head's up. Amazing that I'd never heard of it before.
 
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