Installation: dd
These instructions describe the steps required to download and install dd on Windows.
dd is a program whose primary purpose is the low-level copying and conversion of raw data. It is used to copy a specified number of bytes or blocks, performing necessary conversions and can also be used to copy regions of raw device files, for example to back up the boot sector of a hard disk or read fixed amounts of data from a file.
At the time of writing this article the current version of dd for Windows was 0.5.
Installed
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dd.exe |
Download
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In a web browser navigate to http://www.chrysocome.net/dd. |
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From the Downloads for dd family section click link dd-0.5.zip for version 0.5 binary. |
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The installation media, in a .zip archive named dd-0.5.zip, will start to download. Note the directory dd-0.5.zip is downloaded to. |
Installation
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Create a directory to run dd from. This is the directory where the executable will permanently reside, for example a suitable directory could be c:\Unix\bin. |
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Move dd-0.5.zip to the directory dd is to be run from. |
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Unzip dd-0.5.zip.
Right-click dd-0.5.zip and select Extract All.... In the extraction wizard, accept all defaults. A folder named dd-0.5 is extracted, containing the following files:
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Update the Path environment variable. Click the Start button.
Right-click My Computer.
Select Properties.
Click the Advanced tab.
Click the Environment Variables button.
In the System variables section select the Path variable and click Edit to edit it.
Add ;[dd]\dd-0.5 to the end of the variable value. For example, if dd was installed in directory c:\Unix\bin, move the cursor to the end of the variable value and type ;c:\Unix\bin\dd-0.5. Click OK to update the variable. |
