You can easily write an ISO to USB or clone USB drives by using the Balena Etcher software utility. This simple and intuitive free tool can also be used to flash OS images to an SD card. Resulting in a bootable USB that can be run from any computer that supports BIOS or UEFI booting from the removable device.
For example, boot from USB Live Linux distributions, antivirus utilities, or system diagnostic tools. Any bootable ISO file that will natively run from CD/DVD media can simply be imaged to a flash drive with this tool. Bootable drives you have already created can also be cloned using the same tool.
Question: USB Lost Storage Space; Why did my storage space disappear?
Answer: After writing an ISO file to USB, or cloning, your flash drive will appear to be the exact size of the ISO image or source you wrote to the device. Though, sometimes it may be possible to create another partition on the device to recover lost or missing USB drive space. So that you can continue to use your flash drive for storage purposes.
Use Etcher to Clone USB or Burn an ISO to USB
Authors Website: Project Page
Extracted File Size: 123 MB
License: Open Source
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 11, 10, 8, 7
Download: Get the Portable version of this USB Cloning and ISO burner software tool.
If you find this tool useful, you might also like the win32 Disk Imager, which works similarly to make a bootable USB drive from an ISO file.
