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Can I clone a clone?

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I have a clone of my brothers PC on a hard drive. His PC is 100 miles away from me now. He has a different model dell computer than me.
I tried to clone his to a larger hard drive at my location, but Acronis failed to accept the new drive as a target on my machine.
Both source and target drives we attached by USB to IDE or USB to SATA converters.
Is there anyway to accomplish this clone on my computer?
Thanks

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Is it a cloned drive? Or, is it a .tib backup image? They are not the same thing.

Theoretically, it's possible. Should you 'clone' to begin with? No. Make full backup, then restore to new drive.