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Re: Problem with dd to raw disks


On Mar  1 14:07, Morche Matthias wrote:
> Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation problem"...

What about reading the user's guide instead?

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806

Corinna

> > -----Original Message-----
> > dd if/dev/zero of="\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" count=50000
> > seek =3 fails with the error 
> > 
> > dd: opening `\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument
> ...
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