You pick which drive is the source and which is the target so it seemed to me that, if there were 3 drives, nothing said that the source disk HAD to be the one running Acronis. All of the examples I've seen online show folks cloning their system disk onto another drive. What I want to do is use Acronis on my XP system disk (call it disk 1) plug in two more drives (call them disk 2 and 3 so we know which drives I'm talking about) - one of which, the 'source" contains a Linux image - and tell Acronis that is running on disk 1 to use disk 2 (has a bootable Linux image) as the source of the clone and to use disk 3 as the destination/target. I'm not wanting to work within Linux, per se. Plus, then my engineers could clone Linux drives for development programs on their PC's from the comfort of their offices.saving me from constantly being awoken from naps when they barge into the lab all the time! Is this possible with Acronis? I'm thinking that we might install Acronis on a fairly beefy XP rig that I can get IT to build us and do it much faster - and with less grief! lol - if I can find a way to do this from a Windows desktop. And it seems only stable at a DMA2 transfer rate. It doesn't make bad clones but the firmware on the darn thing gets hosed a lot and we're tired of constantly rebooting the thing. It can do a sector by sector "mirror" copy that doesn't care about the format of what's in the sectors. We have an actual disk cloning machine made by Greystone Data Systems here in my lab but it - being pretty darn cutting edge - is VERY flakey in its operation. Here's a question I have regarding a need I have here at work: Can I, while in WinXP Pro, connect two Linux (LILO - occasionally GRUB) drives to unused SATA ports and clone from one that has our master image on it to a second, bare drive with the operation being run by Windows on the main system drive and have that cloned drive be bootable once it is cloned? Or does the file system on the source and target drives need to be in a NTFS/DOS/FAT format, which Linux is not of course. An amazing amount of good info about Acronis - great help for a noob like me.
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