Whereas with USB sticks, i've heard dd does not need to e.g. i've heard a few people speak of using dd of a live OS image, to another USB stick and it not mattering if the USB stick you're writing to ...

Here is a free and open-source tool to write a raw disk image file to a removable device (say USB or flash drive). The tool is named Win32 Disk Imager. It can come in handy when you want to create a ...