Need a fast and easy USB-bootable Imaging utility

Operating Systems & Open Source
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My SurfacePro3 got a smashed screen a while back. I split the harddrive into two partitions and imaged D:\ to I:\ .

Now the question is, how do I re-image the system from my image partition? The Windows Recovery partition wants me to create a Recovery CD in order to use that runtime to re-image.

1.) This is a Surface, no optical drive.
2.) I really, REALLY don't want to spend all day downloading dozens of GBs of Windows10 crap and then have to make a USB ISO thing.
3.) I was able to get a live USB Mint installation to boot and load, but the Type Cover wasn't working.

It would be great if there was a basic utility I could use to re-image without loading up a full OS... ?

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I have no first-hand experience with what you're dealing with, but if there is such a utility, I can imagine it is shipped with Hiren's Boot CD (don't let the name fool you, you can load it perfectly fine from USB). Have a look here http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

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Clonezila is probably what you want.

Create a bootable usb pen/disk of it and have it save the image to the usb pen/disk.

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Rufus can make bootable usb for both windows and linux

edit: nvm, didnt read full post :D

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