Windows XP Embedded Cloning - 2 Partitions Display

Question

This is regarding a Windows XP embedded that I need to clone a displays - Compact Flash Card and and use it in another display.

Basically, the Elevators have a display inside them. These displays are programmed. The building has around 6 elevators and has 6 displays in different elevators but three of them got damaged due to a short circuit.

Basically, what I need is the displays which are working fine has a CF - Compact Flash Card in them. I used Power ISO, Win32 disk Imager, USB Image tool. All of these tools to create an image of this CF card. An image was created - these displays run on Windows XP embedded and has other software of the elevator which is running inside this Windows XP Embedded system.

I have cloned the CF card, and it booted well on the another CF card - but I have problem. If you see the picture:

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I opened up the image through Power ISO but on opening I get two - Primary FAT16 and the other is Extended FAT32. How can I copy both of these into a single CF card. On Cloning this image file to the CF card using Power ISO - it does ask me which one do you want to copy is it the Primary FAT16 or Extended FAT32. While using USB image tool it doesn't ask anything but on checking the cloned disk - it doesn't have the Extended FAT32.

While I opened the Extended FAT 32 - it has the important files for installation as shown here:

Since I am beginner, I could use some help in solving this.

Basically the display is programmed in such a way that on inserting the CF card to the display and turning on the power supply - the unit starts the usual booting screen of Windows XP embedded and a software auto starts after the boot which I feel in the Extended Partition and it runs and shows the graphical images to be shown in the display. These graphical images are programmed images which shows the elevator floors, when the elevator reach each floors, which is why I need the program in the Extended Partition also to run while carrying out the cloning.

I don't know what I am doing wrong, because after cloning of the CF card the Windows XP embedded starts up, but the on check "My computer" the extended partition is not available and also the software doesn't auto start at all - in which the display shows a normal windows screen.

Could someone help me in cloning the CF card, so that it boots Windows XP embedded and also the software too. The CF card has two partitions which I do not know how to do too.

Answer 1

Windows dosen't really like SD cards with two partitions.

I hate to say this but its quite certainly the wrong OS for the job. Grab a linux livecd, familiarize yourself with the dd syntax and use dd to make an image of the device (/dev/sdX with no number).

Important obligatory warning, using DD the wrong way would quite happily wipe the contents of your card. While I'm giving you a best effort answer, please doublecheck the syntax. I've written this in a form that is not going to work if you copy paste it for that reason.

Use lsblk to locate the root device of the SD card. An easy way to do this is to run lsblk before and after

if is "input file" of is the output file

dd if=/dev/sda of=~/disk1.img

Reverse to apply that to a CF card.