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    Backup of bootcamp....

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by pjshots, Dec 21, 2009.

  1. pjshots

    pjshots Notebook Consultant

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    What would you suggest? I've tried disk utility to create an image of it; it won't boot after this and once the bootcamp wizard has been run, still doesn't recognise that an os is on the partition. Also tried Winclone; of which has to have exactly the same partition size as previous otherwise it doesn't work properly.

    Can anyone suggest something like symantec ghost or osx equiv? Same for backing up osx partition; want something that I can just restore if needed. Used CCC but for some reason cannot get it to not keep all my previous files, so when restoring it also restores all deleted files too.

    Thanks.
     
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  2. Vogelbung

    Vogelbung I R Judgemental

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    I use various flavours of Acronis for the majority of my Windows machines where they aren't backed up by server-based methods: There's a home version which also works really well.

    http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

    I've always sworn by (and very rarely at) Superduper on the OS X side.
     
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  3. Khris

    Khris Yes I am better than you!

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    I've never had a problem using WinClone to make my Boot Camp drive bigger. You can restore the image you made and then go into Windows to resize the volume.
     
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  4. RogueMonk

    RogueMonk Notebook Deity

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    I have used Driveimage XML a couple of times with success. Nice thing, its free.
     
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