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    Did you get that error for dd? Or is there some other step(s) involved you're not telling us about? Commented Apr 30, 2017 at 8:15
  • I getet the error from fdisk -l will update it right now sorry Commented Apr 30, 2017 at 8:16
  • So: After copying the image back with dd, you reboot, see that the BIOS doesn't like the disk, boot back into your live system and run fdisk which gives that error? I would have thought that worked. Are you sure you didn't just copy /dev/sda1 to your imge? Does the rest of fdisk's output (when I've seen similar error, it has always provided more output) look sane? Commented Apr 30, 2017 at 8:22
  • It looks sane when I mount it and I can retrieve all the data by hand. All partitions are listed and fdisk also say it looks fine. Commented Apr 30, 2017 at 8:23
  • That dd must have taken ages to run. Next time use cat. Did dd complete successfully or with an error? If it was successful, the image isn't too large and you need to address the next issue (partition alignment) Commented Apr 30, 2017 at 8:29