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want to restore to H drive, but only the C drive shows up as the destination

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I was unable to clone a 4gb flash drive using that clone tool under ATI 2010 and vista64, so I decided to make a sector by sector image of it and then "recover" the image. This seems impossible on 2010 home but I have done this before way back on version 5. What I did: I mounted it as the H drive and used ATI 2010 home to back it up sector by sector. I pulled out the 4gb flash and put in a identical blank one that I had done a quick format on. It showed up as G, not H. I went thru all the steps of the recovery wizard but when I get to the last step, drive 4 (the G drive) is grayed out and all I can select is my 250gb "C" drive.

The is what I was attempting to recover and I checked [x] all 3 items before I went to the destination selection

So is there any way to manually make a copy of a clash drive using acronis (and not that wizard)?

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Joseph:

Have you tried this without using "sector by sector" mode? It could be that the destination flash drive is ever so slightly smaller than the source flash drive. If even one sector smaller, TI will determine that the image will not fit and will not allow selection of the device as a destination. With the normal imaging mode you should be able to resize partitions upon restoration.

A simpler way to copy an entire flash drive is by using Linux, even from a Live Linux CD. Plug both flash drives into the PC simultaneously. Verify that your Linux distro recognizes both drives and determine the device designator for each. Let's assume that the source flash drive is mounted as /dev/sdb and the destination flash drive is mounted as /dev/sdc for the purposes of this example. Then use dd to copy the source to the destination in blocks of 512 bytes (one sector):

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=512

The command will take a while to complete and will stop when it runs out of sectors on the source disk. Be careful to use the intended device (flash drive) as the destination because the command will write over everything on the device.

Thanks Mark! I had forgotten about using dd and I recall using it back on a solaris system years ago to do the same thing.
I was trying to clone several flash drives that contained Dotsch_UX which is a handy OS for BOINC farming and this worked, as it cloned the MBR also. I posted your suggestion here
http://dotsch.phpbb8.de/dotsch-f16/mbr-boot-record-needs-written-before…
where I was having trouble duplicating flash drives.