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Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:02:36 -0500
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From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: accessing a raw partition
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At 05:52 PM 2/6/2004, Greg Freemyer you wrote:

>I have used cygwin and dd to access a raw  physical drive before.
>
>$ mount -f -b //./physicaldrive2 /dev/tmp_name
>
>$ dd if=/dev/tmp_name ....
>
>
>
>Is there a way to access a raw partition?


You don't need to do any mounting.  See the User's Guide:

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN812>



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