Backup/clone of harddisk, but not the disk where Acronis lives
Hi all, I had a 2012 version of True Image Home laying around and decided this would be a good time to use it. Here's my dilemma.........
I have a PC at work (let's call it machine 1) that is working fine, but running some custom software. I would like to make a backup/clone of that harddisk, but the version of XP running on it will not allow Acronis to be installed. Long story short, I don't want to modify this disk in any way for fear of losing everything (whole machine is beyond legacy).
So, I've installed Acronis on another desktop (call it machine 2) and would like to pull the disk from machine 1 and make it a slave on machine 2. Can I then backup the machine 1 disk using Acronis with no apparent issues? If I then hooked a 3rd disk to machine 2, could I clone the disk from machine 1 to the 3rd disk? Advantages/disadvantages?
To throw a wrinkle into this, the disk from machine 1 is 12GB (old). If the 3rd disk (receiving the cloned image) is much larger, what special cautions/settings must I be aware of if any?
Thanks!

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