Can I use Etcher to CREATE an image like Win32DiskImager does?

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Welcome @iJustWantToEtch to the balena Forums, sorry, no it does currently only write images to a drive or directly clones drives to other ones.
Best regards

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No, Etcher is designed only for flashing images to drives, not for creating images. Use Win32DiskImager or similar tools for creating disk images.

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I couldn’t resist to be the first to ask in 2025! :crazy_face:

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You will NEVER believe what I came here to ask!

And I actually came to ask because I’m trying to write a raspberry pi backup .bin to a mircosd with imageusb but it keeps failing. Was gonna use etcher but wouldn’t you know it, it doesn’t support it!