[Coco] Question about the MicroSD pak

gene heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Fri Mar 18 15:29:37 EDT 2011


On Friday, March 18, 2011 03:27:31 PM Rick Taylor did opine:

> I have access to several Linux machines :-)
> 
> However, dd usually gives me fits -- does anyone have a sample command
> line?
> 
"man dd", paying attention to the options so they fit the filesystems chunk 
size.  For some operations you may have to be root.

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> 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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