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Back Up Your Boot Camp Partition with Winclone
Posted by Gina Trapani at 6:45 AM on October 27, 2007
Mac OS X only: Afraid of screwing up your Boot Camp partition when you upgrade to Leopard? Free application WinClone images your Windows Boot Camp partition for easy restoration to the same or another partition, just in case. The Leopard upgrade shouldn't disturb your Boot Camp setup, but a backup image is nice insurance, especially if you want to resize the partitions on your Mac's drive. WinClone can image an XP or Vista Boot Camp install. As always, back up your important data before using WinClone, which is a free download for Mac only.
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Pterror
Posted 5:09 PM 26/10/07
I've never been able to get that program to work, I must be doing something wrong. I just made a copy of all my windows bootcamp partition files using PSyncX for security.
But Leopard doesn't touch your Boot Camp partition. You can install Leopard, uninstall it and put Tiger back on, and Boot Camp will still work.
And for those of you unaware, the new BootCamp 2.0 Drivers on Leopard are already on the Leopard DVD, no need to burn a drivers CD like before.
Pterror
2-7offsuit
Posted 5:32 PM 26/10/07
Is it possible to back up my Ubuntu install with this? It was such a PITA getting my triple boot set up to work. I really don't want to have to do that all over after upgrading to Leopard.
2-7offsuit
dbr
Posted 10:54 PM 26/10/07
Assuming you have the Bootcamp drivers burned, you can do away with the Bootcamp utility by using this application. It has a "Create Windows partition" option, which aside from burning the driver CD is all the Bootcamp Assistant really does (Then you just need to put the Windows CD in, reboot and hold the Alt button, and select the CD labeled "Windows")
Useful since Apple expired the version of the Bootcamp Assistant I used, and I didn't want to download the 400MB update on this 256kb/64kb connection... And even more since (if I'm not mistaken) Apple is going to intentionally cripple the Bootcamp beta for Tiger users, so they will upgrade to Leopard (..so they can install a completely unrelated operating system?)
dbr
NineTailedFox
Posted 10:00 PM 26/10/07
As always, back up your important data before backing up your important data...
Sorry, I'll stop being like this once I've had some coffee.
NineTailedFox