Image Copy of Flash Drive

[Will]

We have a flash drive that we want to back up as a disk image and then use
the image to restore to other instances of the same kind of flash. The
drive probably has some unusual geometry, and it may have a proprietary file
system on it (we haven't had a chance to examine it with a reader yet). Is
there a Windows application that could adapt to any physical drive geometry,
make a bit for bit copy of the entire physical drive, and then restore the
image to an empty flash drive of identical geometry? The vendor of the
flash drive supplies a proprietary utility to format it as a DOS FAT16
drive, so I assume standard utilities like diskcopy just won't be enough.

 

[Bob I]

You may consider asking the vendor. The flash drives usually use a
mapping algorithm to equalize memory use to prevent the memory from
"wearing out" one physical area. Your "imaging" software may interface
just fine, but if you want information about the flash memory, ask the
manufacturer.