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RE: Problem with dd to raw disks
- From: "Morche Matthias" <Matthias dot Morche at szm dot de>
- To: "Cygwin Mailinglist \(E-Mail\)" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:07:54 +0100
- Subject: RE: Problem with dd to raw disks
Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation problem"...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Anees Mannesseri
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:29 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Problem with dd to raw disks
>
...
> dd if/dev/zero of="\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" count=50000
> seek =3 fails with the error
>
> dd: opening `\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument
...
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