Tuesday the 11 January 2011 15.55.50 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 11 15:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 10 10:40, to...@datasupporten.se wrote: > > > Hello. > > > I'm trying to write a disk image to a compact flash card with dd, but I > > > get the error: > > > "dd: writing to /dev/sdj: Permission denied" > > > > > > Apart from the CF-card, I also tried a USB-stick with the same results. > > > I'm logged in as administrator. > > > > Please have a look into http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942448 first. > > > > [...listening "De-Loused In The Comatorium" while waiting...] > > > > Finished reading? Ok. > > > > That's quite a serious restriction starting with Vista. If I destroy the > > filesystem on one of my sd cards under Linux, I can then overwrite it > > with dd under Cygwin. However, if that dd call created a valid > > filesystem on the sd card, the next write fails again. For some reason > > it does not help to unmount the filesystem on the drive via the "Disk > > Management" MMC snap-in, despite the claim in the aforementioned > > article. > > > > The solution I just checked in to Cygwin is rather complicated, but > > I really tested this a couple of hours now, and I didn't find any > > other solution. > > I forgot the disclaimer: > > Please test the next developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
Thanks for the info. If I get the time I'll try the snapshot. For now I've got a workaround (using Linux). Tomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
