new to linux - dd command

[tootypegs]

Hi, basically my question involves the dd command. My aim is to copy the entire contents of my usb thumb drive (e to a folder located in (c:myfolder). I have seen a tutorial on this site for dd, which is helpful but no matter what i have tried i dnt seem to be able to get it to work successfully. Im using a windows machine and i downloaded 'cygwin'. Could anyone help me out here?


Thanks

[kai12]

how about if you post the command lines that you tried and why they didn't work, e.g. error messages if you got any? maybe someone can help you once you give a little more information. (-:

[RobinVossen]

If you need help about one command you can run:
man <command> to get the manual pages.

eg.
man dd then you'll get:

DD

This document was created by man2html using the manual pages.
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 2002
Index Return to NetAdminTools  
NAME
dd - convert and copy a file  
SYNOPSIS
dd [OPTION]...  
DESCRIPTION

Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the options.

bs=BYTES
    force ibs=BYTES and obs=BYTES 
cbs=BYTES
    convert BYTES bytes at a time 
conv=KEYWORDS
    convert the file as per the comma separated keyword list 
count=BLOCKS
    copy only BLOCKS input blocks 
ibs=BYTES
    read BYTES bytes at a time 
if=FILE
    read from FILE instead of stdin 
obs=BYTES
    write BYTES bytes at a time 
of=FILE
    write to FILE instead of stdout 
seek=BLOCKS
    skip BLOCKS obs-sized blocks at start of output 
skip=BLOCKS
    skip BLOCKS ibs-sized blocks at start of input 
--help
    display this help and exit 
--version
    output version information and exit 

BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: xM M, c 1, w 2, b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1,000,000, M 1,048,576, GB 1,000,000,000, G 1,073,741,824, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y. Each KEYWORD may be:

ascii
    from EBCDIC to ASCII 
ebcdic
    from ASCII to EBCDIC 
ibm
    from ASCII to alternated EBCDIC 
block
    pad newline-terminated records with spaces to cbs-size 
unblock
    replace trailing spaces in cbs-size records with newline 
lcase
    change upper case to lower case 
notrunc
    do not truncate the output file 
ucase
    change lower case to upper case 
swab
    swap every pair of input bytes 
noerror
    continue after read errors 
sync
    pad every input block with NULs to ibs-size; when used 
    with block or unblock, pad with spaces rather than NULs 

 
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp.  
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>.  
COPYRIGHT
Copyright &#169; 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for dd is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dd programs are properly installed at your site, the command

    info dd 

should give you access to the complete manual.

Also its usefull to remember what the tab-button does.
its really a great tool if you have problems with remembering commands.
Cygwin is cool. But not really good.
Well, I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Robin


edit:
if you try in Cygin to target C:\ you should look abit further since you have to target /cygdrive/c