How to unpack dd file on Windows?

Question

Is it possible to unpack files created with linux dd tool on Windows? I have tried that tool http://www.chrysocome.net/dd, but it crashes under Windows 7. Any ideas?

Solution

dd isn't a compression format, its a image creation application that saves to an uncompressed image format. One does not unpack it You can write it to a drive with dd, or mount it - on linux I'd use kpartx and on windows, something like osfmount or lmdisk .

If you can mount it, you can probably simply image it over to a blank disk, or work on it directly

Comments

[tvdo]

dd isn't even a format. it's a tool to create an exact bit for bit copy of something, and that could be anything, it's raw data

[Thalys]

fixed it somewhat.

[Thalys]

Thats mentioned as one option in my answer.