raw write

[Mixolydian]

I seem to remember several notable utilities in the past that let you write raw data to a device in windows (such as making a boot disk from a disk image) but can't seem to find them. I remember rawwrite, but it appears to be very outdated. Anyone know of any good utilities that do this? Basically I'm looking for a GUI app for windows that's equivilent to "dd" on UNIX systems.

 

[lxskllr]

Not gui, but you could install Cygwin to get Unix commands on Windows.

 

[Nothinman]

I seem to remember several notable utilities in the past that let you write raw data to a device in windows (such as making a boot disk from a disk image) but can't seem to find them. I remember rawwrite, but it appears to be very outdated. Anyone know of any good utilities that do this? Basically I'm looking for a GUI app for windows that's equivilent to "dd" on UNIX systems.

I don't think you'll find a gui app for it, but as lxskllr says you can get dd for Windows and use the \\?\Volume names to reference the device directly.

 

[Mixolydian]

Installed Cygwin, seems to be able to do what I need. Thanks guys!

 

[Jodell88]

dd and ddrescue

 

[Mixolydian]

Then again I could always run a virtual machine with some kind of Linux on it... :hmm: