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Should work. You'd be better off dd'ing each partition separately.
Why’s that?
If you dd a 1TB hard drive, it will create a 1TB image. You'd need to have a >1TB drive to store it. If you dd each partition separately, this won't be the case.
Plus it will be easier to discriminate between different FS and mount them accordingly.