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Unable to image the content of a bootable CF card

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I have been trying to image the content of a bootable CF card (64MB) used on HMI to another CF card (512MB). After the whole process, the new CF card cannot boot.

How I did it: I have two card readers, one for the sources CF card (64MB) and the other for the destination CF card (512MB).

I follow the process from other software and do the imaging, but the new CF card could not boot from the HMI.

Is there anything thing that I need to do to get this done?

Can the Acronis True Image 2020 do this.

Thanks

Monday

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Monday, welcome to these public User Forums.

It might be possible for ATI 2020 to make a sector-by-sector backup image of your 64MB CF card and later restore this to your 512MB CF card but I could not guarantee that the end result would be bootable, as ATI is primarily intended for use with Windows drives.

What file system is used on the CF cards?

I would also try a sector-by-sector backup (save the backup to a different location) and then restore it and see how it goes.  I don't believe a clone will work here due to the media type.

Also, it seems like SD cards and Compact Flash cards have other limitations for bootability (at least in Windows, or when using a Windows bootloader) - not sure if they are specific to True Image though as I have not been able to test for myself.

I remember this thread awhile back:  https://forum.acronis.com/comment/463475#comment-463475

Essentially, some compact flash cards are "commercial" (removable disks) and some are "industrial" (fixed disks).  Apparently, you can only make an "industrial" compact flash card bootable so you should check what it registers as in disk management.

https://www.delkin.com/blog/top-differences-industrial-cf-cards-commercial-cf-cards/

https://www.transcend-info.com/Support/FAQ-578

In addition to it, I wonder if the recovery process is modifying the bootloader to some extent.  For instance, we know that a UEFI OS needs to be recovered in UEFI/GPT mode and a legacy OS needs to be recovered in Legacy/MBR mode.  This could be something else to verify if there is a Windows OS involved, but for things like Raspberri Pie's and other *Nix OS'es that use different partition types, might be a road block. 

Steve Smith wrote:

Monday, welcome to these public User Forums.

It might be possible for ATI 2020 to make a sector-by-sector backup image of your 64MB CF card and later restore this to your 512MB CF card but I could not guarantee that the end result would be bootable, as ATI is primarily intended for use with Windows drives.

What file system is used on the CF cards?

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your response, the file in the CF card is a graphic and numerical data file use in monitoring gas engine parameters during operation. 

The problem am having is after successfully imaging all the sector -by-sector backup, still the new CF card cannot boot from the HMI. Is there anything or process to follow to ensure that it boot.

Attached is the CF cards and the HMI picture.  

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530351-179705.jpg 1.42 MB
530351-179707.jpg 1.57 MB

Try using the Win32 Disk Imager tool instead of using ATI as that tool is designed for use with this type of CF card.