Release Notes

Important notes
● After configuring the USB drives for pull/push operation, it is recommended to remove the USB drives by selecting Eject
USB from the System Tray.
● Cloning is supported with the symmetrical USB drives. For example, you can clone a fixed type USB drive to another fixed
type USB drive, and removable type USB drive to another removable type USB drive. If you want to clone a fixed type USB
drive to a removable type USB drive, or vice versa, then the cloning operation might not work.
● Images registered or added using earlier versions of USB Imaging Tool such as 1.x or 2.x are not recognized by USB Imaging
Tool v3.3.0. To work around this issue:
1. Back up the images from the USB drive.
2. Update the Merlin version and reregister the images from the backed-up location to the USB drive using the USB Imaging
Tool 3.3.0.
● It is recommended that you to set up the backup folder with read and write permission for USB Imaging Tool. If the backup
folder is read only, then the Format and Update option in the USB Imaging Tool fails to configure the USB drives.
● In a single session, you cannot configure a local image and a network image path simultaneously.
● You cannot add the same network operating system image path with different file transfer protocols, such as, FTP, HTTP,
HTTPS, or CIFS.
● You cannot add the same operating system image, either local or network, with .rsp and .xml files.
Topics:
• Supported types of USB drives
• Tested USB drives
Supported types of USB drives
USB Imaging tool configures the following types of USB drives:
● USB drive less than 32 GB of disk space—Removable Type
● USB drive greater than 32 GB of disk space—Removable Type
● USB drive greater than 32 GB of disk space—Fixed Type
● USB drives of 1 TB of disk space or less—Fixed Type
NOTE:
Two partitions are created for USB drives greater than 32 GB of disk space and marked as Removable type. One
is 350 MB usable space, which is partitioned for creation of configuration files and the remaining disk space is allocated
for operating system images.
● Support for 64-bit operating system platforms.
● USB Imaging Tool supports both FAT32 and NTFS file systems.
● USB Imaging Tool supports fixed USB drives up to 1 TB of disk space.
Tested USB drives
The following USB drives are tested with USB Imaging Tool version 3.4.0:
Table 2. Tested USB drives
Model Manufacturer USB Version Size Type
USB Pen Drive SanDisk USB 3.0 32/64 GB Removable Type
USB Pen Drive SanDisk USB 2.0 64 GB Fixed Type
USB Pen drive Ultra
Dual Drive C-type
SanDisk USB C-Type 32/64/128 GB Removable Type
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