anonymous Mac Tech
05-25-2009, 07:04 PM
I know this is mainly a tool for Macs, but many of you PC folks may find yourself in a bind someday with a bootcamp partition running on an Intel Mac. The situation is although Mac has a few built in ways for making a disk image or backup or the HD such as creating a disk image with disk utility or Time Machine in 10.5. These things work fine if the computer is running Windows on a virtual machine, but if the client set up a boot camp partition with Windows there is nothing built in to the system you can use backup or make a disk image with. We ran into a situation like this about 6 months ago or so when we were upgrading a good regular clients sons Macbook with a larger HD. He had a specially configured speech recognition software running on the boot camp side which was urgent to him to be left un-tampered with and we had no way to make an image of the boot camp partition.
Thats when we found and for the first time used Winclonehttp://twocanoes.com/winclone/. This tool which is donationware allowed us to clone the bootcamp partition into a disk image and restore the image perfectly. Winclone is also good for a lab or networked environment for deploying bootcamp images on several Intel Macs at once.
Thats when we found and for the first time used Winclonehttp://twocanoes.com/winclone/. This tool which is donationware allowed us to clone the bootcamp partition into a disk image and restore the image perfectly. Winclone is also good for a lab or networked environment for deploying bootcamp images on several Intel Macs at once.