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Debian: creating Windows 10 bootable install USB-drive using terminal (dd)
My goal is so simple, the title says it all, but every way I've tried, I've failed. I've read instructions on various sites (besides here) and they all seem to be missing something... this is what I ...
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How can I recreate an installer iso from a usb (Mac/Windows) using dd?
I have read many "how do I write an iso to USB" questions. I am looking for a way to reverse the process. My question is about taking a USB stick containing a Windows installer or Mac ...
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When I use dd command it does not write data to USB stick
Can anyone please help me to solve this problem?
Sometime when I do a dd command to a USB stick it finishes very quickly without actually writing data to USB. I discovered it is actually writing to /...
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Make Live USB flash drive with dd
The last time I booted from a USB flash drive was back in 2006. Ever since, I keep failing at making live USB bootables.
I tried getting Fedora 17 and 18, Ubuntu, and tons of other distros to boot ...
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Rufus Linux DD mode to Flash drive Normalization
NEED help,
My primary language is not English, so here it goes:
I already destroyed one of my flash drive Transcend Jetflash 790 32GB.
GOT a replacement from the warranty.
I'm trying to dual boot ...
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dd not zero filling flash drive
I have a sd card, wich works fine, and ubuntu 23.04, and dd does not fully mirror a disk image. example:
expected:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
$ strings /dev/sdb
$
actual:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/...
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How come monitoring the status of a write to USB isn't reliable?
I write ISO files to USB thumb drives a lot, and I'm trying to find a way to monitor the status of a write. Googling this, I have found a bunch of solutions, including pv, dcfldd and the USR1 signal ...
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How do I make a USB flash drive writable on Linux? [duplicate]
I want to reformat a SanDisk Cruzer Edge USB flash drive but it appears read-only:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdg
dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sdg’: Read-only file system
I checked the readonly ...
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USB Flash Drive not recognized after unsafe eject while dd was running
Wasn't thinking I'm going to end up here.
What happened?
I wanted to benchmark the speeds of a USB flash drive, which was USB 2.0. My system is Debian bullseye/sid 5.8.7-1. I used the same method ...
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Can't find the file specified
So I inturrupted a dd for windows operation, and now my usb stick won't work. I saw this post but, it's solution doesn't work for me, as i don't have a chromebook. Attempts to format the drive just ...
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Why is my USB device not being registered after zeroing with dd?
I recently got a Sandisk Cruzer USB to install a new operating system on my Kubuntu Linux computer. Fearing that the drive had malware on it, I wrote zeroes to the drive:
dd bs=1G if=/dev/zero of=/...
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dd writing on USB flash drive causes massive reads
I am currently restoring a usb stick with a dd image, I have previously created. However is noticed very poor write speed around ~7 MB/s although the stick is usually much faster.
After looking ...
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How does dd know about correct disk label when burning iso to usb?
I used dd to burn arch linux image to usb stick, but now I need to store additional files on the same usb stick. The usb stick is read-only after dd so I decided to format it manually. The stick was ...
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Read bytes from usb flash drive
I need a hex dump of a usb flash drive from the first few kilobytes. The flashdrive is fresh formatted with fat32 what i did is checking with lsblk where is my usb device and i got:
sdb ...
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How do I create a backup of my hard drive in small sections?
I have an old laptop with a 500Gb non-removable (soldered) hard drive. I am attempting to recover some data from the drive. After some reading, I've discovered that I should create a copy of the drive ...
