Thanks man, I really appreciate your constant patience with the <---- n00b

I'll throw at least 4GHash at you for 30 minutes every day. The problem is that dd (live cd and running system) freezes with kernel error at some point and I can't clone the usb flash drives.
fdisk -l shows some like: "physical and logical beginnings differ (not linux?)"
Which could be the problem with flashdrive, because of the controller reassinging the cells all the time. Do you also use a usb flash drive? I didn't have the problem when I cloned my HDD from rig 1 ---> 2.