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Burning an image to a USB pen drive from a Windows PC
CAUTION - FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS VERY CAREFULLY. IF YOU CHOOSE THE WRONG DEVICE TO WRITE, YOU COULD ACCIDENTALLY ERASE YOUR HARD DISK!!!
USE "dd for Windows" AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
Download dd for Windows
- Download dd for Windows from this location: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd
- Unzip the file into a directory on your PC. These instructions assume you put them in C:dd
Get the name of the USB pen drive
- Plug the USB pen drive into the USB port on your PC
- Open a command prompt window
- In the command window, type:
- Then type:
- This will give you a list of all the drives on your PC.
- Your USB drive will show up as "Removeable media". On a sample system, it shows:
cd c:dd
dd --list
\.Volume{519788if-8c49-11db-a58-00c045000001} link to \?DeviceHarddisk1DP(1)0-0+7 removeable media Mounted on \.e:
Dump the image to the USB pen drive
The following command assumes:
- The name of the image file to be burned is q1ultra_install_usb.img and it is in the same directory where you installed dd
- Your USB pen drive is mounted as drive e:
Type the following at the command prompt:
dd if=q1ultra_install_usb.img of=\.e:
Comments (7) 
January 24, 2009 8:16 PM PST
 Bob Spencer |
Thanks for the pointer. I tried it and it worked so I referenced the same information on moblin.org for creating a bootable USB from the latest Moblin images. One question, my output from "dd --list" showed: . . . \\.\Volume{519788if-8c49-11db-a58-00c045000001} link to \\?\DeviceHarddisk1DP(1)0-0+7 removeable media Mounted on \\.\e: . . . which is different from yours (more "\"). Similarly, I had to run: dd if= of=\\.\e: instead of dd if= of=\.e: Bob |
| February 10, 2009 12:24 PM PST
Jason Lester |
Concerning the missing '\' ... I think the CMS that software.intel.com is based on is removing the first '\' char from each instance in the post... for example, you will also find 'C:dd' which as obviously incorrect. additional '\' chars should be used to compensate. |
| February 10, 2009 12:29 PM PST
Jason Lester | and to remove confusion since dd can virtually make drives useless... |
| April 7, 2009 12:07 PM PDT
grx |
Hi, just a hint: For me, using syntax \\.\e: did not work. Using syntax \\?\Device\Harddisk2\Partition0 woked fine. Partition0 means "whole drive". |
| April 19, 2009 10:02 AM PDT
Semion |
Why my output from "dd --list" is "dd --list"? It's just repeat the text i wrote! |
| January 30, 2010 7:49 AM PST
Kome |
It would be much better idea to use Disk Imager https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download It has a GUI, and very easy to use. ALSO important to know some USB drives not bootable. |
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