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Re: A problem using "dd" on Cygwin


Greetings, Angelo Graziosi!

> I was playing with "dd" command to "install" an ISO image on an USB key
> (to make it bootable). The USB key has size 8 GiB and I did this (as 
> Administrator):

>    $ dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M

> (image.iso has a size of 1.6 GiB). After this the USB key has a size 
> (partition) of about 2.3 GiB: the remaining space is unallocated.

> How to restore its original status?

diskpart

> How can we proceed on Cygwin?

Nothing to do with Cygwin.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 02.03.2015, <04:36>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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