Here's another thing to try that might work out better.
Always do a reset and back to EDL between things that didn't work out well.
Code:
edl /l<alpha or patched>
edl /u /r /pmisc /c1 small.img
edl /u /w /pmisc /c1 /v small.img
I don't need to see all the GPT verbose stuff, just the write section.