This is off topic. My question is: can I use a Mac to make a bootable clone
of a PC drive that's plugged into the Mac's USB port if I have the desired
destination drive plugged into another Mac USB.
Heretofore I have had SATA drives and would remove the PC's SATA drive, pop
it into an external drive duplicator along with a matching destination
drive, and make a sector by sector copy with no connection to any computer.
That worked wondrously well. But my new Lenovo has one of those M.2 NVMe
SSD's (looks like a RAM board) and that, of course, won't go in my SATA
drive duplicator.
I've tried Acronis but due to some vagary of my Lenovo, I can't boot from
Acronis' Rescue disk. And EaseUs is set up for Pidgin English. So I would
like to continue physically removing the computer's SSD and cloning it
externally.
It is harder than one would think to get an M.2 NVMe to SATA adapter, but I
was able to get an M.2 NVMe to USB adapter. So I wonder if it would be
possible to put the source M.2 on one USB adapter, the destination on
another, plug both into the Mac and use either some Linux diskcopy command
or SuperDuper! to make a bootable clone.
Help appreciated.
--Harry