Every now and then I stumble across a piece of software that is well written, extremely useful and FREE. Today I’m going to talk about Image USB
During the day I am responsible for a staff of help desk technicians that are continuously upgrading and repairing PC’s. They like to have their Windows 10 install media on a bootable USB drive. Lately the industry is shying away for optical disk drives, so bootable USB install media is a must.
Why can’t I just copy the files from one drive to another?
To “BOOT” from USB media the disk needs to have a boot sector. Think of the boot sector as a hidden area on the drive that the gives the computer specific instructions that it can only see at startup. Once the operating system is running you can easily copy your files from one drive to the other, however the hidden boot information is a little more difficult