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    Disk Cloning Question - Mac OS X + BootCamp (Windows 7)

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by kent1146, Oct 21, 2011.

  1. kent1146

    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

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    Is there a single disk cloning / imaging tool that will let me transfer a Mac OS X + BootCamp (Windows 7) installation to a new drive, in a single step?

    All of the info I have seen online requires you (at best) to clone the two partitions separately; and (at worst) tells you to reinstall Mac OS X, run Time Machine, re-run BootCamp, re-install Windows 7, then restore the Windows 7 from there.
     
    kent1146, Oct 21, 2011
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    paradigm Notebook Deity

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    shouldn't acronis do that,

    maybe do a complete image of the entire drive....technically that should work...but then again, i am a noob in the MAcOSX enviro
     
    paradigm, Oct 21, 2011
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  3. kent1146

    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

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    If Acronis does this, then it is news to me.

    It seemed like the disk cloning tools based off of an underlying Windows OS (Acronis, Norton Ghost) will choke when dealing with the HFS+ partition used by Mac OS X.

    And for whatever reason, the Mac-centric disk cloning tools (like Carbon Copy) does not play well with Bootcamp partitions formatted to NTFS.

    If there is a tool (or a method in Acronis that I am not doing correctly) that can clone a Mac OS X + Bootcamp (NTFS) drive in a single step, then I'd love to use it. Because as it stands right now, cloning a Bootcamped Mac is a pain in the butt.
     
    kent1146, Oct 23, 2011
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  4. dmk2

    dmk2 Notebook Evangelist

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    I know CloneZilla can clone HFS+, NTFS, FAT, and most Linux partitions.
     
    dmk2, Oct 24, 2011
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