I am about to loan a less-used machine, temporarily, for a project to "prove
something in Linux". That project is none of my business but I have created
an Acronis image on optical media so I can restore the original WinXP Pro
OS, after I receive the machine back this weekend.

Can anybody tell me if I might to format the system drive first before doing
the image restore? Or can I let my Acronis boot-disc do its job straight
away? I do not even know if Acronis can even *see* a drive formatted with a
Linux file system to restore to. I use Acronis Version 8.

I am asking this out of academic curiosity. I can always hook the system
drive to my USB2 cable (long) and plug it into my own machine and create a
new NTFS volume plus format. I suddenly realized that I know zilch about
non-Windows file systems!

Regards and thanks a lot in anticipation.

JP

JP wrote:

> Can anybody tell me if I might to format the system drive first before doing
> the image restore? Or can I let my Acronis boot-disc do its job straight
> away? I do not even know if Acronis can even *see* a drive formatted with a
> Linux file system to restore to. I use Acronis Version 8.

The Acronis Boot CD uses Linux as its OS... at least in the newest
version.

You should be OK.

"Uncle Grumpy" <unclegrumpy@ameritech.net> wrote in message
news:1136413842.476709.211820@g49g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> JP wrote:
>
>> Can anybody tell me if I might to format the system drive first before
>> doing
>> the image restore? Or can I let my Acronis boot-disc do its job straight
>> away? I do not even know if Acronis can even *see* a drive formatted with
>> a
>> Linux file system to restore to. I use Acronis Version 8.
>
> The Acronis Boot CD uses Linux as its OS... at least in the newest
> version.
>
> You should be OK.
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Thanks for the quick and encouraging response.

I have used my Acronis boot-CD several times and never even paid attention
to the fact that it uses a minimal Linux shell/kernel to load itself! One
certainly does learn something new every day, even in seemingly mundane
regular tasks!

Regards and thanks again.

JP