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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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DD copy prematurely reports "no space left on device". Beyond hardware failure, what could have caused that?
I have an embedded device booting from SD card with 8GB internal flash (enumerating at /dev/mmcblk1). I used to be able to manipulate the flash just fine (as in, I know that it is actually 8GB and ...
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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 ...
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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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What does the dd command do?
If I make a copy with the "dd" command from a block device say 8 GB to a 16 GB block device, the content of the first device is copied to the second device until it is full? (that is, until ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How to make bootable flash from ISO with DD?
I have downloaded ALT Linux rescue ISO and wrote it to my flash stick with
sudo dd if=regular-rescue-latest-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sda1
Unfortunately, it doesn't boot on my old computer. I tried USB-HDD,...
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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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Why won't bootable DVD image files burned on USB stock boot?
Suppose I have DVD iso file.
As far as I understand, these non-hybrid iso files don't contain GPT or MBR ar the beginning, instead they have their own speciffic file system and some partition table. ...
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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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How do I test a USB drive using `dd`?
I've bought a 32GB USB stick, but I have doubts if it's not faulty... formatted as NTFS, writing speed easily falls to ~40 kbps, which means copying even relatively small (a few hundred MB) data can ...
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