Backing up my Windows BootCamp Partition

I know that OSX has Time Machine, but as far as I can tell, Time Machine doesn't back up your Boot Camp partition as well. Is there a program out there that will create an ENTIRE system image that I can save to an external drive? By ENTIRE system image, I mean all of my settings, program files, user information, drivers, EVERYTHING, not just the my documents folder.
Thanks!
Psych

Each operating system needs unique backup usually unless you have a server.
WinClone is popular for Windows, or DataBackupPC - there is an excellent thread here somewhere on backup software for Windows. Full image.
If you have a FAT partition, you can backup using Disk Utility to create a disk image and backup to that. Separately. Can't be used to restore though the way WinClone will.

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Factory reset of a Windows (Bootcamp) partition

Hi,
I just recently did a system recovery of my Mac OS X partition and imported only the User files because the system files had somehow become corrupted. I would like to do the same thing for my Bootcamp partition, but I am not sure of what program to use to erase the Bootcamp partition that would also allow me to access the Windows 7 recovery file. Do I use disk utility via the Mac partition or do I use the system configuration via the Windows 7 partition? I don't want to do a full backup and restore, but I want to do a partial one where I can get only the files that I really need back on.
Thanks for your help,
Stephen

If you erased and installed the MacintoshHD partition and restored that new and just your files, then you should be able to option/alt key boot into the Windows BootCamp partition like before which then you can backup files out of that to a external drive, then boot back into OS X and use the BootCamp Utiliy to remove the BootCamp Partition and start all over again with a fresh Windows install.
There is System Restore in Windows, type System Restore in the Windows Start Menu to go to it, it allows you to restore your Windows and installed Apps back to a earlier state, but keeps your files intact.
Then you Windows Update and check all your third party software and browser plugins for updates.
Then you update your anti-virus definitions and run a scan on the drive to detect malware on your users files and delete, restore those from backup.
There is the rare malware that really hoses a Windows machine so even System Restore doesn't work, but your supposed to use WinClone 3 in OS x to backup the BootCamp partition so it can be restored from OS X.
So that's your options.

Will reinstalling OS X Tiger remove my windows bootcamp partition?

The header is all I want to know guys, im reinstalling OS X due to some probs with CrossOver and I just wanted to know what will happen to my windows bootcamp partition.
Thanks in advance.
- Jason

When you go to reinstall OS X, it will pull up the HD and ask you where to install it and you get to choose the partition. It will leave the Windows partition alone.
Now, if you choose to do a complete erase and install and instruct Disk Utility to erase the hard drive and remove all partitions - it will do just that.

"System Progressive" virus on Windows/Bootcamp partition

Hi. I got the System Progressive virus (or a similarly named virus) on the Windows/Bootcamp side of my iMac. Can I use my time machine to restore the windows partition to a previous date? If I can, how do I do that safely without screwing up my system? Thank you in advance to anyone who can help answer my questions. These forums are great and I really appreciate all of the smart people who help us dummies out. You guys/gals are the best!

Krittersnort wrote:
Hi. I got the System Progressive virus (or a similarly named virus) on the Windows/Bootcamp side of my iMac. Can I use my time machine to restore the windows partition to a previous date? If I can, how do I do that safely without screwing up my system? Thank you in advance to anyone who can help answer my questions. These forums are great and I really appreciate all of the smart people who help us dummies out. You guys/gals are the best!
TM doesn't back up Windows, did you not use a Windows backup program at all?
Good luck with removing the virus but I would suggest removing and reinstalling Windows

Will upgrading from OSX Snow Lepoard to OSX Yosemite remove my Windows Bootcamp Partition?

Hello guys, so i have a question.
I am currently running OSX Snow Leopard, and i want to upgrade to OSX Yosemite, but i'm scared that upgrading to Yosemite will erase my Bootcamp partition.
so, Will upgrading to Yosemite kill the partition? or will it save it, so that after Yosemite is installed, i can still dual boot into Windows 7?
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!Mister_Meh

Also backup your OS X volume.
Windows has built-in backup software. You could also try WinClone X.

Help me save my Windows Bootcamp partition before restore

I have tried all the suggestions and recommendations out there. MBP only hangs on Boot, grey screen w/spinning wheel. If I hold option, I see both my mac drive and Windows XP bootcamp drive partition. I can boot into Windows perfectly.So my question is how do I clone/copy my windows partition before residing to a complete Mac software restore. I have days of configuration set up on the windows partitioin and really don't want to lose it. Thank

By design, the iphone will sync itunes content with ONE computer at a time. If you attempt to sync such content with a second computer, ALL itunes content will first be erased from your phone & then replaced with the content from the second computer. This is a design feature & cannot be overridden. Because you formatted your computer, the iphone will see your computer as a "new" computer.
1.First, disable auto sync when an ipod/iphone is connected, in preferences, in itunes, which in windows is in the edit menu.
2. Put one contact & one event in whatever programs you use for that purpose on your computer, they can be fake, doesn't matter, the important point is to have one entry in each.
3. Connect your phone, itunes running, DO NOT SYNC.
4. Go up to Store>Authorize this Computer.
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7. Right click the phone, again, & select Backup.
8. Right click the phone, again, & select Restore from Backup. Select the backup you just made.
9. This MUST be followed by a sync to restore your itunes content, which you select as before from the various tabs.
You'll get a popup regarding your contacts & calendars asking to merge or replace, select merge.
This article details what's included in the backup you'll make & restore from:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

Increase Mac partition after shrink Windows bootcamp partition

I have a Mid 2010 Macbook Pro running Mac OS X 10.9.4 with a 500GB HD.
The HD is partitioned with 370 GB to Mac and 128 GB to Windows and I decided to shrink the Windows partition to 65 GB because I needed more space on Mac, and I barely use Windows.
I resized the Windows Partition using Mini Tool Partition Wizard and moved it to the end of the disk, leaving the empty right after Mac partition.
I'm able to boot Windows partition and use it normally. The Windows C: disk now has 65 GB.
When I boot on Mac OS X and try to use disk utility to increase the Mac partition, it says that the Windows partition still has 128 GB.
It is possible to use the empty space I created?
Here's some information about my partitions:
$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
      start       size index contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 723603632      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
724013272    1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
725282816 251490304      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
976773120         15
976773135         32         Sec GPT table
976773167          1         Sec GPT header
$ sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
MBR: hybrid
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/disk0: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): E34EA0BB-B94A-4854-AF05-02E0D06A48E5
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 21 sectors (10.5 KiB)
Number Start (sector)    End (sector) Size       Code Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00 EFI System Partition
   2          409640       724013271   345.0 GiB   AF00 Macbook HD
   3       724013272       725282815   619.9 MiB   AB00 Recovery HD
   4       725282816       976773119   119.9 GiB   0700 BOOTCAMP
$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 723603632] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 724013272 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 725282816 - 251490304] Win95 FAT32L

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Backing up in XP bootcamp partition

Yesterday I did a software update and it had an error when installing. Now whenever I turn on my computer I get the prohibited sign and it boots into my windows partition. See: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1892
It looks like I'm going to have to reinstall osx but I have no way of backing up the whole OS. Is there a way I can copy .app files and other important things into my XP partition then send them over to OSX after its reinstalled?

Why don't you just have OS X on a bootable external drive for repairs?
You can boot from the external; or you can boot from OS X DVD and do backup (RESTORE tab).
Have you tried repairing your hard drive?
Doing a Safe Boot?
Invested in 3rd party disk maintenance like Disk Warrior or TechTool Pro?
XP is usually backed up from OS X using WinClone to copy to another HFS+ hard drive.
You need a drive with room for both, and room for a small emergency boot volume (20GB).

Can you copy the Windows Bootcamp partition over to a new hard drive?

I'm out of space on my hard drive so I'm adding a larger one. I originally just wanted to use my time capsule for a backup, but then I remembered about my Windows partition.
What would be the most efficient way to copy both partitions from my original drive to the new drive for install?
I have a Macbook Pro 13in Late 2011 model and running OSX 10.9.5. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Respectfully,
-Cory

Backup your Windows software using Windows backup software to a Windows formatted disk. Create a new Boot Camp partition on the new drive. Install Windows on it, then restore your backup. You can also buy disk cloning software that can clone the system to another drive and restore the entire clone. I believe Acronis has such software.

Accessing Windows Bootcamp Partition from Leopard

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I've got my Macbook partitioned into 2 partitions, and I want to be able to access the Windows Vista one from my Leopard installation. I know It doesn't work the other way due to file systems etc. but I have stuff I need to get from one to the other and I don't have time to sit there with a USB drive and reboot every time I need to move stuff over.
Thanks in advance.

Toocool4 wrote:
If you change your Window partition to FAT32 you will be able to read and write from Leopard.
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to enable write, try this compiled & packaged version of NTFS-3g
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How to Reinstall Windows on Existing Bootcamp Partition

I've been running Windows 7 under Bootcamp on my 2011 MacBookPro. I've run into a situation where Windows7 will no longer install updates. I worked one day with Microsoft for over an hour but they could not find what was causing the problem. FYI, when looking into this problem, the error code that is produced is Error Code 8007010B. I have found nothing substantial online in regards to this code.
I've used Winclone (a Mac application) in the past without issues to restore a Boot Camp Windows partition. Since purchasing Winclone 3.4 I've made several backups, but now that I am actually trying to restore one of those backups I'm getting a message:
"the image you are attempting to restore does not contain the correct information".
So I am frustrated and have emailed twocanoes.com, the Winclone publisher and waiting for their answer.
Working with Bootcamp
I'm trying to figure out the steps I need to reinstall Windows from scratch in an existing bootcamp partition. Do I need to start from scratch with Bootcamp, or can I reinstall Windows from inside Windows? If I do the latter, how do I prompt Bootcamp to reinstall the Apple drivers?
Other Issues FYI
I'm having trouble locating the Windows 7 instal DVD I originally purchased. I do have the serial number. So I've downloaded a copy of Windows 7 from the MyDigitalLife Windows7 Repository.
I have burned the iso image to a DVD. I've got 2 versions, one is the .iso file burned onto the DVD, the other are the contents of the .iso file burned to DVD. I assume to install Windows, it will want the one with the contents of the Windows installer burned to it? Any other issues I may be unaware of regarding this kind of Windows install?
Is there any advantage of reinstalling Windows from a USB Flash drive as compared to a DVD? Just curious.
Finally, for Activation, because this copy of Windows is going back into the same Bootcamp partition on the same hardware, will I have to reactivate Windows? If so, suggestions appreciated.
Thanks!
-Dave

I appreciate the help. Can you tell me what are the steps to tell Bootcamp to install drivers into a Windows install? Thanks!
Update: I looked at the Bootcamp Assistant instructions and now I understand your answer. Info here:
"Step 4: Install the Windows support software
After installing Windows, install Mac drivers and other support software for Windows. The
support software installs Boot Camp drivers to support your Mac hardware, including AirPort
devices, the built-in camera, the Apple Remote, the trackpad on a portable Mac, and the function
keys on an Apple keyboard. The software also installs the Boot Camp control panel for Windows
and the Apple Boot Camp system tray item.
You can download the support software by selecting the “Download the latest Windows support
software from Apple” option in Boot Camp Assistant. The support software must be copied to a USB flash drive formatted in MS_DOS FAT. If the installer does not start automatically, doubleclick the setup.exe file in the Bootcamp folder."
If you or anyone have any other tips, they would be appreciated. As this appears to happen with Windows quite frequently, and I've had to do it multiple times over the years, I'm not looking forward to it.
Added Update info. Message was edited by: Dave Peck

Winclone back up installed programs/applications in Windows 7 partition?

I am using winclone to back up my windows 7 partition. Does this backup file contain the necessary information to reinstall all programs/software/applications in the event of a total hard drive failure? In other words, would I need to insert each install disc to get my programs back or would the Winclone back up file restore all of my software and settings to what it was prior to a hard drive failure? It seems that Time Machine does this, but the details of Winclone have been hard for me to find.
Thanks for any help.

Hi,
sadly WinClone is no longer developed/improved by the programmer and he also has taken it's website/Forum offline.
Whereas Time Machine is a file-based backup solution WinClone is an Imager solution which can be best described as a snapshot of the full Windows partition.
The file WinClone creates from the WIndows partition contains everything on it at the time you use WinClone.
So, there is no need to install anything after a restore with WinClone.
The restore will be the same Windows as it was at the time of using WinClone to make the image of your Windows partition.
For Time Machine-like backup solutions for your BootCamp Windows have a look at these
http://www.comodo.com/home/data-storage-encryption/data-recovery.php
http://www.genie9.com/freeproducts/freetimeline.aspx
to name only two. There are more...
Regards
Stefan

Need to recover data from Bootcamp partition

Hi, all,
I recently sent my Macbook Pro in for repairs after a crash (Windows partition not recognized, after working well for a year), and they replaced the logic board and HD, the former of which was dead and the latter of which "wasn't running very well". I got the HD back, and have been trying to get data off it; the problem is, most of my data was stored on my Windows bootcamp partition, which I can now see - but not access.
This is the info I got off it, since Disk Utility still recognizes it.
Mount Point : /Volumes/BOOTCAMP
Capacity : 116.7 GB (125,294,346,240 Bytes)
Format : Windows NT File System (NTFS)
Available : 26.6 GB (28,521,467,904 Bytes)
Used : 90.1 GB (96,772,874,240 Bytes)
Number of Files : 138,674
Owners Enabled : No
Number of Folders : 0
I feel as if there should be a way to recover data from the drive, since it obviously still...exists and is recognized. But using "verify" in Disk Utility returns a "verify volume failed: invalid request", and I can't otherwise see any files, since there's apparently 0 folders.
Does anyone have any recommendations for data recovery software that works in Mac? I can't just run Windows from an external drive because the HD with the Bootcamp on it is Mac-formatted.
Many thanks.

Probably the best option for attempting to recover files is attaching the hdd to a> USB Adapter and plug it into a usb port an another machine. If the hdd has not failed it should show up as a drive and can be browsed on the other machine to copy files over.
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Bootcamp partition fully bootable within VMWare, but not showing up in startup with option key - nor does it work when selecting target startup disk

Hey all,
Today I resized my OSX partition with the intention of leaving it blank for my new SSD to use as over provisioning space. This resulted in me having 5 partitions on the drive for a short while (which may have caused the issue?). Hereafter, the Windows 8 partition was stopped showing up when pressing option on startup. I opened my bootcamp partition in VMWare Fusion and could was told the drive was unbootable. I used the Windows 8 cd in through VMWare Fusion to run the Auto Repair from the installation CD (probably MBR records and BCD records etc). Then VMWare was able to fully boot my Windows 8 installation without any problem. However, I am still not able to actually boot into my Windows 8 installation as it doesn't show up at startup, and when chosen as target start disk within OSX the computer just hangs on startup before it reboots.
I am considering the possibility of some mis-sync between the GPT tables OSX is using and the MBR records used by Windows 8... I have run a few commands and gotten the following response:
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0:
Disk: /dev/disk0
geometry: 62260/255/63 [1000215216 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 725443856] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 725853496 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 840058920 - 159894112] Win95 FAT32L
sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=512110190592; sectorsize=512; blocks=1000215216
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Sec GPT at sector 1000215215
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   725443856      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   725853496     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   727123032   112935888
   840058920   159894112      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   999953032      262151
1000215183          32         Sec GPT table
1000215215           1         Sec GPT header
I can confirm that partition 4 is indeed my windows 8 installation.
When I run the validation test within gdisk i get:
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
MBR: hybrid
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
No problems found. 113198045 free sectors (54.0 GiB) available in 3
segments, the largest of which is 112935888 (53.9 GiB) in size.
I am have hit a wall in regards to this issue. Why can I boot from my bootcamp partition using VMWare, but not directly from it like when I restart my computer?

Okay solution found found a solution finally... i followed the steps outlined in this article: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4144252?start=0&tstart=0 . After i did this my windows bootcamp partition showed up again, but my osx and osx recovery disks became unbootable. Luckily I have an extra enternal harddrive with osx installed on, so ran disk utility and repaired the affected disk where osx had become unavailable. Then rebooted and all disks now shows up and work perfectly again.

New user account - cann´t open bootcamp partition through vmware fusion

Hi all!
I installed on my new Imac Bootcamp first, than VMware using the bootcamp partition under my admin account ( all working fine ).
After a few days I opened a new standard user account for my wife.
I hoped that VMware Fusion will work under these new user too. I opened the VMware and the bootcamp partition was displayed. I klicked the execute button for using these partition under VMware but the rotating sun icon rotated and rotated and rotated .... nearly 30 minutes later I stopped the VMware.
When I try it now to open VMware a message is displayed - translated from German - or words to that effect :
" Package "users/nameofwife/Library/ApplicationSupport/VMWareFusion/VirtualMachines/BootC amp/%2Fdev%2Fdisc0/BootCamp partition.vmwarevm" is corrupted and cann´t open "
My question : Is it possible that my wife gets access to VMware too ?
Please help - thx
Gregor

Okay solution found found a solution finally... i followed the steps outlined in this article: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4144252?start=0&tstart=0 . After i did this my windows bootcamp partition showed up again, but my osx and osx recovery disks became unbootable. Luckily I have an extra enternal harddrive with osx installed on, so ran disk utility and repaired the affected disk where osx had become unavailable. Then rebooted and all disks now shows up and work perfectly again.

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