Purchased a 16GB SanDisk CF card as upgrade to a 4GB unit, for main drive in embedded PC (IDE-CF interface). First attempt to partition the card showed first available sector as being number 2048. Further research seemed to indicate that this might be a result of consumer and pro grade SanDisk CFs are shipped in "Removable Disk" mode, and I would need to convert it to "Fixed Disk" mode.
I was able to find a SanDisk conversion utility, but this required connecting the card via an IDE adapter and booting to DOS. While waiting for hardware, I tried just using dd to copy the entire drive image to a file; then using
this guide to resize the root partition with fdisk and parted; then dd'd the new image to the new card.
I was surprised to see that the partition table on the newly-loaded card appeared normal (no 2048 sector offset). And it booted fine.
Life is good.
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