[PLUG] Imaging CF card...

[alan at clueserver.org]

> The server uses a CF card in place of a hard disk. The server oddly enough
> is Windows 98 SE based. I have a CentOS 7 box with a USB CF card reader.
> I am trying to image the CF card and write the image to a second CF card.
> Kind of a, make a backup to experiment with scenario and use the backup.
>
> This my CentOS 7 box doesn't work:
>
> $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=win98seQSP2predrivers.img bs=1M count=1000
> status=progress
>
> The file created cannot be mounted. If you write it to another CF card,
> you get garbage.

If you look at /dev/sdb in fdisk, what does the partition table look like?

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