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dd to thumb drive, W7 permission problem
- From: Charles Russell <worwor at bellsouth dot net>
- To: cygwin cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:29:43 -0500
- Subject: dd to thumb drive, W7 permission problem
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.
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