Quite a few usage scenarios are possible because of this. The USB Image Tool can be used to perform backups of data whenever a USB flash drive is connected to the computer system. This can be interesting to backup cell phone data, music, photos and basically anything else that is of importance to the user.

Another option is the creation of multiple images for the same device and to replace these images whenever the need arises. This could be an interesting option to fill mp3 players with different kinds of music or cell phones with applications or games based on travel or business plans.

The portable software program will automatically recognize connected USB flash drives. The drives are displayed in the left sidebar while general information about the selected drive are listed on the right side. Information include the drive’s name, path, storage size and file system.

It is possible to backup or restore data with the click on one of the available buttons at the bottom of the screen. Several options are available that include adding favorite USB images to the interface or creating MD5 checksums during backups.

The USB Image Tool is compatible with most versions of the Microsoft operating system including Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. It can be downloaded from the developer’s website.

USB Image Tool via Ajua Online

The main interface consists of three buttons for the restore, backup and rescan functions. The rescan button is helpful if an USB device is not automatically recognized by the application which is the case when a card is changed in a card reader.

The data of the USB device is stored in a compressed format on the hard disk of the computer from where it can be burned to disk for safekeeping. The software does not only come with an option to backup USB devices to create USB images but also to restore them. It would be possible to backup the data of your iPod and later restore that image again. I’m not sure but it could work to replicate the data on another device of the same kind.

The USB Image Tool requires the Microsoft .net framework 2.0 and a computer running Windows XP or Windows Vista. It ships with a dll called usbit32.dll that has to be in the same folder as the application, which it is by default.