The !joys of Windows

Edit to my previous post. Being more than a little naive I posted before checking whether things would work or not. dd for windows actually finished, seemingly successfully, but alas, either I made a mistake regarding the proper command line or it just doesn't work under vista, because when I tried booting from this stick it did not work - and when I tried to check what the disk looked like with cfdisk (yes I rebooted into Arch...) it said there was something seriously wrong with the disk. So I did what I should have done from the start: I ran dd under Linux. And it was good! First it was about a billion times faster and second, it worked ;-). Simple:

dd if= of=/dev/sdb

Your device may be different of course...