robinbobin ([personal profile] robinbobin) wrote2005-12-14 05:41 pm

dd for windows

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm


Make an image of a floppy disk

dd if=\\.\a: of=c:\temp\disk1.img bs=1440k

Make a disk from an image

dd if=c:\temp\disk1.img of=\\.\a: bs=1440k

Rip an .iso from a CD

dd if=\\?\Device\CdRom0 of=c:\temp\disc1.iso bs=1M

Read a USB memory device

dd if=\\.\Volume{c18588c0-02e9-11d8-853f-00902758442b} of=c:\temp\usb1.img bs=1M

You can write to any file or block device which windows will allow you to write to. You can use \\.\ notation for win32 exported devices or \\?\ and the windows native device name.