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Dextrosoft's USB Maker 1.0

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PCQ Bureau
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In, our December issue we did a review of Dextrosoft's DataUndeleter USB,

capable of recovering your deleted files from partitions, documents,

spreadsheets, videos, emails etc. Now, Dextrosoft introduces the USB Maker

1.0.0, capable of burning Live CD/DVD into your USBs. Windows 7, Windows Vista,

your platform could be any of these and this product will let you burn the OS

into your USB. Dextrosoft's USB Bootmaker, a software tool burns the live CD/DVD

into your USB and allows you to boot from it. This utility also allows you to

burn the image file (ISO or IMG). This could be very useful for creating

installation media for netbooks and small footprint PCs which don't have optical

media. At the same time it reduces installation faster as USB data rate is much

faster than CDs. A drawback with USB Maker is that it is not capable of burning

XP and few other Linux distros. Dextrosoft's USB Maker allows you to create a

generic bootable USB; which means it can burn a generic image of Windows PE,

Linux or FreeDOS into USB. This utility also allows you to play your favorite

movies and small Windows or Linux based games through USB. You can simply create

a backup USB from a movie CD/DVD and play it.

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Price: Rs 4,500



Key Specs: Easy to use interface, can create


bootable USB drives.


Pros: Can create bootable movies and apps


containing USBs


Cons: None


Contact: Dextrosoft, Kolkata Tel: 65220271


email:
sudiptam@dextrosoft.com




SMS Buy 130112 to 56677





Tests and results



We begin testing USBMaker on Windows 7 platform; the interface was similar

to that of Dextrosoft's DataUndeleter. With just a few clicks, user can burn the

ISO to the USB and start using it. We were successfully able to burn the Window

7 into a USB drive in around 20 minutes on a standard Core 2 Duo machine.

We also installed Win Vista (x86) on the same platform and the time taken was

around the same. But when we tried creating a bootable USB of Fedora 12, and

OpenSuSE 11.2, the installation didn't work. We were able to burn the ISO to the

USB though, but later found that it doesn't support these OSes. We even tried

burning a movie onto the USB; it took us approximately 13 minutes for a 3.57 GB

DVD and we tested and played it on a bare bones machine without any Operating

System. Another drawback with this software is that you have to delete the data

from the



USB completely using their proprietary format applications before reusing, else
the USB will be unusable. The user can do it by selecting the Delete USB date

completely option under the Action tab in its interface.

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Select the first option to

create a bootable USB, and follow it by selecting the source of the ISO.
After completion of burning and

installation processes, delete the USB data to reuse it.

Bottomline:- If you are not a geek and don't know how to make bootable

Windows USB or need to create custom bootable USBs with specific apps, then this

is a useful solution.

Madhur Chawla

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