Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation 
problem"...

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> Subject: Problem with dd to raw disks
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> dd if/dev/zero of="\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" count=50000
> seek =3 fails with the error 
> 
> dd: opening `\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument
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