[Coco] Question about the MicroSD pak

Frank Pittel fwp at deepthought.com
Fri Mar 18 19:25:38 EDT 2011


It occurs to me that cygwing under windows has the dd command available. I'm not sure
use it to make an image of an sd card though and won't have access to a windows machine
until Sunday. It would take a bit of time and experimentation to figure out the command options
to do it.

Frank



On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:40:19PM -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> If you have access to a *nix machine, 'dd' does a fine job of backing
> up and restoring images to the SD card.  Not sure if Norton Ghost is
> equivalent or if there is some other simple option for doing the same
> thing on Windows machines, maybe someone else has done this on those.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Rick Taylor <coder32768 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How would you go about making a copy of the SD card for safekeeping?
> > Can you just do things like plug it into a PC and run Norton Ghost to
> > copy the card?
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