What's new in Portable WinToFlash Lite 1.13.0000
Nov 7, 2017
- Dramatically improved compatibility with Windows ISO images in the Multiboot mode. Now WinToFlash creates multiboot bootable USB from any Windows Setup ISO from Vista to 10 with any number of bootable WIM images in it
- Improved compatibility with modified Windows Setups in the Multiboot mode
- Fixed autoreboot problem in Windows Vista Setup on the multiboot bootable USB
- Added support for combined x86+x64 Windows 10 images from MediaCreationTool in the Singleboot and Wizard mode
- Tested under newest Windows core 10.0.16299
- Logging improved for better troubleshooting
New in Portable WinToFlash Lite 1.12.0000 (Oct 10, 2017)
- Fixed problem with incorrect FAT2 table initialization for FAT16/32 CHS and LBA volumes
- Improved logging of drive lock/unlock, write/read/wipe requests for better troubleshooting
- Improved drive lock/unlock and force dismount mechanism
- Fixed BSOD STOP IO1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED 0x69 for Windows XP/2003 singleboot bootable USB
- Fixed problems with XP Recovery Console boot from a bootable USB with GRUB4DOS bootloader
- Fixed problem with reading from network shares like \MySRV1ISOetc
- Interface improvements
New in Portable WinToFlash Lite 1.11.0000 (Jun 21, 2017)
- Improved partitioning and formatting algorithms, error reporting
- Added GRUB4DOS bootloader support for fully functional copy of Windows on a USB drive aka Windows To Go
New in Portable WinToFlash Lite 1.10.0000 (Jun 6, 2017)
- Added an option to install fully functional copy of Windows from any WIM file to a USB drive aka Windows To Go
- Spelling fixes in the interface
New in Portable WinToFlash Lite 1.9.0001 (May 23, 2017)
- Added More Options dialog into the Bootable USB Wizard
- grub4dos binary and boot MBR and PBR code updated to the latest version 0.4.6a 2017-05-15
New in Portable WinToFlash Lite 1.9.0000 (May 17, 2017)
- Added exFAT file system support
- Added an option to set user's background for Multiboot USB menu
- Added an option to customize screen mode from text upto 1280x1024 for Multiboot USB menu
- Fixed problem with wrong bootloader installation on NTFS file system and usb-zip partitioning
- Added features to fix automatically some damaged/edited license files
- Added Ready screen into Bootable USB Creation Wizard
- Updated multiboot items database with bunch of new records (see full List of supported multiboot items in 1.9.0000)
- grub4dos binary and boot MBR and PBR code updated to the latest version 0.4.6a 2017-05-12
New in Portable WinToFlash Lite 1.8.0000 (May 2, 2017)
- Added automatic cache for downloaded ISO files for multiboot USB creation. No need to re-download an ISO every time you need one, WinToFlash will copy it from the cache instantly
- Added an option to start Windows Recovery for Windows Setup items on a multiboot USB
- Added protection from second WinToFlash start from the same folder and following data corruption
- Updated multiboot items database with bunch of new records (see full List of supported multiboot items in 1.8.0000)
- grub4dos binary and boot MBR and PBR code updated to the latest version 0.4.6a 2017-05-21
- Bootable USB Test updated to version 1.3.0000. See Bootable USB Test Change Log for more info
- Tested with Windows 10 build 15063
- Some internal code optimizations for better stability and speed
New in Portable WinToFlash Lite 1.7.0000 (Apr 18, 2017)
- First Start Wizard unexpected crash fixed if application can't find gif file for license installation animation
- New user friendly "Multiboot item add" dialog added
- Updated multiboot items database with bunch of new records
- Spelling fixes in the interface
- grub4dos binary and bootup MBR/PBR code updated to the latest version
- Wizard and Advanced transfer dialogs are now sticky to the main app window
New in Portable WinToFlash Lite 1.6.0001 (Apr 4, 2017)
- Added support for Win7 Taskbar Effects
- WinToFlash [The Bootable USB Creator] updated:
- Added support for Win7 Taskbar Effects
- Small other interface fixes
New in Portable WinToFlash Lite 1.6.0000 (Mar 28, 2017)
- Added big button for multiboot menu on the main application screen
- Added full support of extra long file paths up to ~32K characters (WinNT API native file \? mode instead of 260 legacy chars limit) for file operations and application itself
- Singleboot options and drive service options separated to 2 different tabs, "advanced mode" tab removed
- Improved stability of the application and drive lock algorithm
- Added "Process Steps" tab to the multiboot menu
- Improved USB drive Wipe option - it shows a progress bar correctly
- Improved image restore option - it can start checkdisk automatically at the end of the process
- Improved logging - WinToFlash will now log Started from binary, Start folder, Current directory from the environment, Current roaming writedir and Current local writedir at startup
- Improved logging - WinToFlash will now log full source file path on the file system and ISO/RAR/ZIP/DMG/etc. image
- WContig support app updated to the latest version
New in Portable WinToFlash Lite 1.5.0000 (Mar 15, 2017)
- Added support for text license files
- Added converter application for license files (both convert binary to text and text to binary license file)
- Improved multiboot item add dialog
- Improved checkdisk option
- Fixed some problems with NTFS formatting
- Added option to create full binary image of a USB drive
- Added option to restore full binary image of a USB drive
- Added full support of latest Windows 10 release
- Other small changes to fix bugs
New in Portable WinToFlash Lite 1.4.0000 (Oct 8, 2015)
- Added setup programs to install WinToFlash [The Bootable USB Creator] as regular Windows program automatically
- Added button to download ISO file from WinToFlash directly in Multiboot Item Add dialog
- Removed AntiSMS executable and changed AntiSMS profile to work with ISO bootable files from AntiSMS project directly (both WinXP and Win8 edition)
- Other small changes to fix bugs