Hi, Thanx for the references. I tried the forward slash, but that didnt help. After going thru the user's guide, i tried /dev/sde instead of //./PHYSICALDRIVE4 and it worked. From what i could undertand, the problem is with opening the file for write. Any clue on how to get thru this ?
Thanx Anees >On Mar 1 14:07, Morche Matthias wrote: > Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation problem"... >What about reading the user's guide instead? >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using->specialnames.html#AEN806 >Corinna > > -----Original Message----- > > dd if/dev/zero of="\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" count=50000 > > seek =3 fails with the error > > > > dd: opening `\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument > ... > > -- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
