Talk:Bootable USB flash drive utilities

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The Deadly dd Command

Copy a drive to another 

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

Create an ISO image from DVD 

dd if=/dev/dvd of=dvd.iso

Wipe the partition (like wipedisk) 

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

Copy drive to compressed archive (make sure destination is not the same) 

dd if=/dev/hda | gzip > hda.img.gz

Backup image of MBR and partition table 

dd if=/dev/sda of=/home/sam/MBR.image bs=512 count=1
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