Cloning a Thumb Drive

I recently wanted to make a backup of a bootable Thumb drive. I did some research on cloning thumbs, and most programs (like dd) simply copy the data, not the hidden boot sector files. I tried using Ghost, as some posts said Ghost 14 would clone thumbs. But I downloaded Ghost 15, because Ghost 14 isn't available anymore, and I could not find thumb cloning anywhere in the 15 menu. I tried Acronis, but their trial version doesn't include thumb cloning. I tried Clonezilla, but after an hour of trying to fix partition errors and such problems, I gave up on that--it's just too difficult to use (or doesn't work, I couldn't figure out which).

My solution was Disk Copy 2.3. by EaseUS. This worked like a champ, and even worked with dissimilar size thumbs (small to larger). Below is a screenshot of this easy-to-use, nice, and free program. You just boot to the iso image of Disk Copy, select your source and destination thumbs, and it does the rest. Easy as pie.

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