dd to thumb drive, W7 permission problem

[Roger K. Wells]

On 03/14/2011 11:29 AM, 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.
>
Here's what I had to do to get any usb drive to be accessible on Windows 7
in fstab:

e:/ /mnt/e ntfs noacl, nouser, binary

obviously pick your own mount point(/mnt/e), source(e:/), and filesystem 
type (ntfs).
I put four of these lines in for e:/, f:/, g:/, h:/  to cover all 
(hopefully) eventualities.
May not be the only, best, approved, etc way but it got me going.

HTH,
roger wells

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