Can you even do dd in Windows?In retrospect, my reluctance to use that command was an irrational fear and life is going to be so much easier now that I've confronted and conquered it.
"if for input, of for output" isn't harder to remember than "lefty loosey, righty tighty" but you don't see us "average joe/josephine" users running away in horror at the thought of using a screwdriver, do you?
The mind is a funny thing.
