dd to thumb drive, W7 permission problem

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 14 10:29, Charles Russell wrote:
> 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.

Since you missed to send your cygcheck output I hazard a guess.
You didn't update to Cygwin 1.7.8 yet.


Corinna

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