Re: dd to thumb drive, W7 permission problem

[carolus <worwor at bellsouth dot net>]

On 3/14/2011 10:58 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 14 10:29, Charles Russell wrote:
> > The following works on Windows XP, but fails on Windows 7,
> > apparently because of some permission setting (even in Administrator
> > mode).
> >
> > # dd if=binary.img of=/dev/sdb
> > dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': Permission denied
> > 3+0 records in
> > 2+0 records out
> > 1024 bytes (1.0 kB) copied, 0.081 s, 12.6 kB/s
> >
> > I would be grateful for suggestions of what to change and where to find it.
>
> Since you missed to send your cygcheck output I hazard a guess.
> You didn't update to Cygwin 1.7.8 yet.
>
>
> Corinna

Good guess.


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