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: The destination drive (e.g., /dev/sdb ). Caution: Using the wrong drive name will irreversibly destroy data.

zcat image.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress 3. Creating a Compressed Image Creating a Forensic Image with dd dd.zip

The dd command is a powerful low-level utility used for bit-by-bit copying of files or entire drives. While dd natively handles raw image files (like .img or .iso ), it cannot directly process compressed archives like .zip without a helper command to extract the data on the fly. 1. Writing a Zipped Image to a Disk : The destination drive (e