Which windows utility will reliably take an SD card image and restore it back exactly as is?

[Myron]

I want to clone my SBC's SD card onto another card, but I don't have a computer running Linux as the primary OS.  Out of the Windows utilities out there which ones will take a exact image of the SD card and then write that exact same image to another card making it a perfect clone of the source?

[SteeMan]

balenaEtcher is the recommended tool for making SD cards and it also has the capability to clone one.  It is available for all platforms.

[Myron]

What I want to do is grab an image of the source SD card and then from the image write to one (or more) SD cards, but knowing that balenaEtcher is a plus.
balenaEtcher only seems to allow a direct clone of a SD card.

[NicoD]

win32diskimager
It can create .img files from sd-cards and save where ever you want. It can write them to sd-cards.
It is simple, lightweight and does what it needs to do. Just be careful with other USB devices connected. Always make sure you've got the correct drive names. Or else...
I once formatted my USB hard drive from 1.5TB with all movies and music. Wasn't my happiest day. Tought me to use a NAS for it instead.

[Myron]

Thanks for the signposting and ..... Ouch! ☹️

[Werner]

USBimager

 

https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager

[guidol]

I can recommend the USB Image Tool:

Info-Page: https://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/

Download at: https://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/download/