Thus even Linux officially without special program does not write on NTFS partition every Linux can cloned XP and Vista and systems foreign to itself like BSD and Solaris. Its cloning speed is also hard to matched by the commercial software because it only reads "1" and "0" from one hard disk/partition and write the same on the other. dd is so flexible that you can control the hard disk DMA to slow down the speed to read a dying disk.
Personally my view is people spending money for Acronis and Ghost because they don't know about Linux. I certainly have never had a need to go back to Norton Ghost after I entened Linux and I do back up disks over 400Gb and with the maximum 63 partitions all filled with different operating systems inside. I known such operation may come into conflict if the boot sector is occupied by a Linux boot loader.Įven if I don't use Acronis I expect functionally whatever Acronis can do Linux can do 99% if not more by the "dd" command in Linux. Norton Ghost needs to exit from the host system Windows, reboots automatically back as DrDos to carry out the cloning operation. There could be another technical problem though that if Acronis 7.1 works as Norton Ghost, which is its major competitor, may need to access the boot sector to store its code during the cloning operation.
Theoretically a boot loader in MBR can boot Grub residing elsewhere in the hard disk but since I can't afford AcronisI 7.1 and wouldn't know how to advise how to use its boot loader. If this is the case then you have to make an executive decision which boot loader you wish to command the MBR. It is possible Acronis has its own boot loader which wants to take over the boot sector currently occupied by Grub. You make it sound like an operating system that Grub does not boot for you.
I don't know what Acronis 7.1 is except it is just a Windows-based back-up software for cloning partition and disk. Thus there is no necessity to relate Grub to your problem because it only confuses others. I feel your question may be a mixture of several things.įirst if Mepis boots then Grub's duty is accomplished. I am answering this post so that you don't feel lonely, not that I have a solution.
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