How to write an IMG file to a hard drive?

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I have a file with an IMG extention. This file is a copy of a hard drive,
not a CD or DVD. I do not know what application created this file.

Can someone tell me how to write this image file to a new hard drive? Is
there a Windows program capable of this? How about a "Live CD" of one of the
many Linux distro's, like Umbutu?

Thanks!
 
I have a file with an IMG extention. This file is a copy of a hard drive,
not a CD or DVD. I do not know what application created this file.

Can someone tell me how to write this image file to a new hard drive? Is
there a Windows program capable of this? How about a "Live CD" of one of the
many Linux distro's, like Umbutu?

Thanks!
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Couple of choices;

1 - Download ImgBurn (freeware) http://www.imgburn.com/
2 - Change the extension to .iso and burn with Nero
 
*** Evil confusing top-posting fixed - don't do that ***
I actually found a port of "dd" for Windows that will do the trick.
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Just install the DJGPP system, and all those things are easily
available. Beware line wrapping below.

[1] c:\c\maxsum>dd --help
Usage: dd [OPTION]...
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, kD 1000, k 1024, MD 1,000,000, M 1,048,576,
GD 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

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.

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