imageUSB results in bad USB on PC

[joegus74]

Hello!

I have a weird problem. ImageUSB seems to work fine. When I test the USB-stick on my Mac everything is fine, but on the PC it is unreadable. Windows asks if I would like to format the stick.

Here's what I've tried:

1. I've created the .iso using several different burn softwares (CDBurnerXP, ImgBurn and finally on the OS X Burn.app)
2. I start imageUSB (right click and 'run as administrator')
3. I select one or more usb-sticks from the list.
4. I select the .iso filer from the desktop
5. I hit Write to UFD
6. I seems to work and I get the big nice 'operation complete' sign.
7. I try to use the USB-stick but Windows asks if I would like to format.

I've tried this on two different PCs with the same result. I have Windows 7 Enterprise, SP1, 64-bit.

What's happening? Am I doing something wrong?

Kind regards
// Joel in Sweden

[Richard (PassMark)]

imageUSB will write the ISO image directly to the USB Flash Drive (byte by byte), but it will not convert the underlying ISO/CD filesystem. This is likely the issue you are seeing.

We may look to implement this in the future, but have no immediate plans for this feature.

[joegus74]

Ok. So... Is there a way to work around this?

[David (PassMark)]

The obvious solution is to only make an ISO if you are making a CD/DVD. As this is what ISO was designed for.

If you are making a USB drive then just treat it like any other hard drive. i.e. Use NTFS, FAT32 or a normal file system.