Using GNU port of DD in Windows.

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Using GNU port of DD in Windows.

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In Linux, you'd write an image file to a floppy using the following syntax:

dd if=floppyimage of=/dev/fd0

With the GNU port of Linux under Windows, the first thing I tried was:

dd if=floppyimage of=a:

That didn't work.

So, how do you refer to the floppy drive in Windows? It took me a bit to figure it out, and I actually ended up making use of the syntax that a VMware guest OS will use to access a shared folder from its host OS. In other words, you do this:

dd if=floppyimage of=\\.\a:
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