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  • Excellent, simple tool that does what it does well and doesn't hold your hand. The vast majority of the negative reviews are from people who either didn't read the instructions or are not technically competent enough to be using a tool like this. This is not a tool designed for newbies. Look on Google or YouTube for instructions on how to use the tool before you go blaming the developers for your lack of knowledge.
  • First, I would like to note that this software does require some knowledge on the part of the user. Most of the poor reviews are only due to the user's ignorance and failure to understand what they are doing. This software is designed to write an image to a drive. A drive being a hard drive, SSD, USB flash drive, SD card, microSD card, etc. It will overwrite the entire destination drive. You cannot write an image to a partition, only the whole drive. All partitions on the destination are erased and over written. The image was made from a drive and is the same size as the original. When it is written the destination drive becomes the same size as the image. This can be fixed through scripts that auto expand the image to the full size of the destination drive or the expansion can be done manually through a partition manager. Many partition mangers have free versions capable of this. A partition manager can also be used to restore your drive to its original blank state. Since your destination drive has actually been overwritten, even data recovery software will not restore your destination drive data if you mistakenly wrote to the wrong drive. BE 100% SURE OF YOUR DESTINATION DRIVE! Then check again. Google this whole process. Watch a YouTube video. Watch many times if necessary. As a final note, there do exist some images that do not work well with this program and some drives that have problems. In some cases, downloaded images are not what they are described as. There are several other programs of this type. Google is your friend ;-)
  • Completely destroyed my 1TB hard drive when I tried to burn an ISO image into a partition. No warning whatsoever. It is now 5GB, and the hard drive is now not accessible. Data in other partitions are all lost and there is no way to recover it. Extremely frustrated. Honestly at this point it is unethical.
  • I have used this to write Raspbian OS images to microSD cards, most recently the image 2023-10-10-raspios-bookworm-arm64-full.img, This is the 64 bit Raspbian Bookworm OS with the recommended software and is 13.4 GB in size. I have never had a problem, always successful writes. The free program SD Formatter can always be used to restore the original format. I have used it both on Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers. "Expand file system" should be done on the Raspberry Pi computer to recover the original microSD card storage capacity.
  • Trash. It turned my 512gb SD card into a 15gb. Took an hour to find a fix. Here is a link to a youtube video for the fix for anyone who has the unpleasentness of using this trashware. youtube.com/watch?v=aPEEpHqq40c
  • Fine tool
  • For those of you having the problem with Win32 re-writing your SD cards as mb instead of gb.. I had this problem too. I found that I could recover them by formatting them in a digital camera. After that, you can format them on your computer and then run them through win32 again.
  • It destroyed 2 SD chips and an SSD before I realized what the problem was. In each case, it wrote them as 100 MB (mega, not giga) and it was impossible to reformat them to something better. Well, maybe I will find some other prog like Linux dd can fix them, but for the moment they are dead media. The UI was all messed up, too. Running on Windows11. I should have heeded the warning signs of something that might be trouble. It was. Find something better.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • The program did not work. I ran the verify on two USB flash drives and it said OK. Neither worked. I got a message no boot sector. Windows said that both devices were unformatted.
  • Nice project. I use it since may years.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Been using this tool for years and never had a problem with it. It is not particularly user friendly, but it works.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • 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
  • It is very useful for embedded development, namely, Arm development projects!
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • Some issues to start
  • keep up the great work
  • Has a lot of different viruses, I had nothing on my drive and it was fine with me. Be aware of these kinds of applications, It's better to use Rufus. Rufus was mentioned on Ubuntu and I tried and it worked well. win32 wasted my time!
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • I used win32 Disk imager in Windows 10 64 bits to write the file HomeStudent2019Retail.img in a USB pendrive. I did it twice, in two different pendrives (4GB Philips, 16GB Kingstone) and what I got was 2 pendrives without format, every time I plugged the pendrives Windows prompt me to format them. This is the first time that happened something like this with win32 Disk Imager, i remember that it worked fine in the paast with other windows versions (XP, 7)
  • it would be great if it could also work with partitions
  • Using Win10-2004, works great and fast! Thanks so much for creating this tool! btw - for folks having issues on Win10, try setting resolution to 1080p. High res DPI screens can mess up older GUIs that use pixel sizing.
  • Works perfect with Windows 10 64 bits 1909
  • I am running windows 10 and it worked fine for me. No so user friendly but figured it out and cloned my R pi SD card OK. note 2G source card only creates 2G part even if card is bigger, like 4Gb but hey 2Gb enough for me anyway.
  • Now the functionality seems to be completely gone with Win10 Update 2004, and the last version is from 2018. don't hope that it will work ever again. Better replacement that is also able to read AND write: "HDD Raw Copy Tool"
  • Software does what it needs to do and is the only thing I could easily find for creating a backup of my Raspberry SD card. However, installer is missing the 'msvc 2015 redistributable', which will cause it's interface to fail. Download the x86 installer from Microsoft, install it and then the interface will work (although on high-res screens you'll need to increase the window size to make it workable).
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Just doesn't work on Win10 !! Running the program comes up with a tiny little window. Expand it a bit and there's just a "Running task" message in the status bar and only the "Exit" button is active. Useless.
  • Just doesn't work on Win10 !! Running the program comes up with a tiny little window. Expand it a bit and there's just a "Running task" message in the status bar and only the "Exit" button is active. Useless.
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