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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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.
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