Backup restore Boot Camp partitions by Disk Utilities

Hello,
I am new to MAC world and need to know about the backup & restore procedures of Boot Camp Partitions;
I want to make a disk image of my FAT32 Partition like Acronis Ture Image or similars. ( in case of any problem i would able to restore my system without waisting time in reinstalling windows and other software programs etc on both MAC OS & Windows sides.)
please guide me if it is possible by using Mac DISK UTILITIES or by some other programs.
My Curent MAC Config are;
MACBOOK pro 2.1
2.33 Ghz core 2 Duo
O.S. 10.4.9
Boot Camp : Windows XP pro with SP2
Thanks in advance
MAC book Mac OS X (10.4.9) Boot camp with FAT32 using Windows XP Pro

"need to know about the backup & restore procedures of Boot Camp Partitions; "
Then you should post your question in the Boot Camp discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1165

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Backup/Restore Boot Camp Partition

Leopard Disk Utility nor Time Machine image seem to be able to produce a restorable image of the Boot Camp partition. Is this facility available in Leopard? In a computer lab environment we need to be able to readily restore both Mac and Windows partitions.

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
depending on the file system used for Windows two possible solutions:
If using FAT32: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=717201&start=0&tstart=0
If using NTFS: http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/ (currently BETA for Leopard).
Regards
Stefan

I deleted my Boot Camp partition with Disk Utility and now I cannot reclaim the freespace?

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I'm looking for a Windows software to perform daily incremental backups from my Boot Camp partition to an external USB drive. It should also be possible to restore the COMPLETE Boot Camp partition from that backup in case of a hard drive failure. (It's NOT necessary that various versions of files are kept around-the-clock like Time Machine does. It's also not necessary that the backup itself is bootable.)
I've tried Genie TimelIne, but unfortunately it wasn't able to manage a complete restore. The taskbar was missing, no applications were installed (only present), settings were missing after the restore..., so I had to manually install nearly everything.
I've heard "Macrium Reflect" should be better. Is this true or does anyone have another good tip?
BTW I'm not looking for a solution to backup from the Boot Camp partition to the OS X partition and I don't want to create a complete clone every day.
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coxorange wrote:
A bit difficult to test such a software including worst case recovery if you can't dispense with the concerned computer temporarily. And VERY time-consuming!! Hence I asked for personal experiences.
Well, Anyone elses personal experience won't mean much to you unless they have the same setup as you, so asking others for personal experience is as much of a crap shoot for you as doing it yourself. I went through lots of testing several years ago on my first MacBook Pro, but almost none of that testing is valid for my current machine. With the variations in machines, and machine configurations, what works for someone else might not work for you, and what might work for you might not work for someone else. I learned this when I was testing Colnexzilla as a possible backup/cloning tool. It worked fine on my MacBook Pro, but wouldn't work properly for a number of other users.
coxorange wrote:
What do you mean I'm confusing?
I always wrote about the Boot Camp partition.
I agree that what you are asking for seems rather confusing. You talk about backing up your data on your Windows partition, and you talk about performing incremental backups. The WIndows 7 Data backup utility it perfect for tasks like that. It's when you start wanting to perform disk image backups, and then ontop of that perform incremental image backups of your Windows partition that things get challenging and confusing. Since you aren't clear about what scheme you want to use, it is hard to answer with a "clear answer" and not get confused by what you seem to be asking.
coxorange wrote:
As far as I know that's not enough to perform incremental backups including EVERYTHING on the Boot Camp partition.
If you use the Windows 7 data backup and perform incremental backups, you will have a backiup of all your data from the Windows partition. Isn't that want you want? If you want to perform a restore, it will not restore you back to a bootable drive, but it will have all your data and files backed up. If you want to perform a partition backup image, and make those backups incremental nightly, it might be possible. Since you are talking about a Boot Camp partition on a Mac here, you also need to clarify if you want this backup to run when teh system is booted into Windows, or when teh system is runnign MacOS, or ifit is acceptable to boot from yet another media for the backup purposes.
At this time, I'm not sure that any software exists which can make backup image of your Boot Camp/Windows partition when runnign MacOS that will make a backup image that cna restore to a bootable volume and can do incremental backups. There are few, if any backup tools that will run runder native Windows on your Boot Camp partition that will make an image file backup that can do incremental backups, and also allow you to restore to a bootable partition. I beleive that the Paragon software is one of the very few that can do this. I have tried and successfully made backupns and restores from backup disk images using custom boot drives for CloneZilla, and the Paragon Drive Backup tool. I don't believe that CloneZilla will do inremental backups, and I'm not sure about the Paragon software as I stopped using Boot Camp about 1.5 years ago when I upgraded to my current MacBook Pro. Now with this system, I don't run native Windows, I only run it virtualized using Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion. For both of those, I get a full system backup with each MacOS backup I take, since the Windows File System is virtualized and stored entirely in files on my MacOS partition.

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Hey Guys,
I have created an image (compressed) of my older Boot Camp Partition (on my old Mac). Then I set up a new partition on my new MacBook Pro, on which i installed Windows 7 via Boot Camp.
Now I want to restore the image of my old Boot Camp partition (where all my data is on) to the new partition on my new MacBook Pro.
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Hi,
A While back I Partitioned my main hard drive and created a boot camp partition. Now that i'm done using Windows on my mac, i'd like to restore my drive to one partition WITHOUT losing all of my data. Now, Boot Camp Assistant makes it sound as though this is possible and I have heard from others who have done this however i'm a little unsure and would just like to confirm that this will not destroy all of my data on the Mac OS X side of the Hard Drive.
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Cloning is not formatting, installing etc. Though it might require RTF once in awhile.
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Hi. Could we just use Disk Utility to create a backup the Boot Camp Partition running Windows 7 64-bit for example and then just use Disk Utility to restore it if you need to replace your Boot Camp partition?
Why is Winclone the tool use to create an image of Boot Camp partition as well as to restore a Boot Camp partition? Thank you in advance.
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Read the instructions that come with Leopard Boot Camp. The partition is automatically formatted at FAT32. However, it's a) not bootable (Windows has to do that) and b) Vista requires NTFS. That means once you're in the Vista installer you need to REFORMAT the partition. Select the partition, and then click, umm, disk options I think. Then reformat the drive. If you do that you should be able to continue.
100years wrote:
When Boot camp partitions the disk (I chose 25gb) it automatically formatted it as FAT32. However, when installing Vista, it says that it requires the disk to be formatted as NTFS.
The Boot camp instructions says I should be given the option which format to use, but no option came up. I don't want to partition more than 32gb.
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However, when booted into WinXP, Windows will not recognize the external hard drive. I thought I might need to create a FAT32 partion of 32 GB or less on the external drive, but I apparently can't do this in OS X or Windows (since Windows doesn't recognize the drive).
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My goal was to create a bootable clone of my FAT32 Boot Camp partition, while at the same time increasing the size of the partition from 15 GB to 32 GB if possible. This is what I did:
1. As suggested in this thread, I used Disk Utility to create a disk image. I formatted it as MS-DOS (FAT), and made it 32 GB in size.
2. Used the Finder to copy all files from my 15 GB Windows XP partition to the new disk image.
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3. Removed the internal hard drive with my original Win XP partition, and installed a new internal hard drive.
4. Used Boot Camp Assistant to create a 32 GB Boot Camp partition on the new internal drive.
5. Inserted my Win XP installation disk and started the Windows installation. Formatted the new partition as FAT32. (I used the long rather than the quick format method--not sure if this was necessary.)
6. Continued the Windows installation to the point of restarting the computer, at which time I used the Option key to boot back into OS X.
7. Used the Finder to copy all the files from the 32 GB disk image to the new Boot Camp partition. (This overwrote a few Windows files installed by the aborted Win XP installation.)
8. Restarted and used the Option key to select the new 32 GB Boot Camp Partition. Windows booted as usual with all files, programs, etc. from the original 15 GB partition. Windows did complain about "new hardware" and required a restart, but all appears normal.
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Will Time Machine also backup the Boot camp partition or will I need a separate XP backup software for that? I assume that Time Machine will successfully backup a Fusion vmdk file, obviating the need for a separate windows backup if XP is directly installed in Fusion?

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
BCorFusion wrote:
I need to make a decision on whether to install XP Pro on a BootCamp partition or just in Fusion. I am aware of and like the option of being able to use the BootCamp partition directly in Fusion. Are there any features that do not function or function poorly if I only use the BC partition in Fusion instead of a direct installation in Fusion itself?
Not that I am aware, but some report a sort of delay at startup of that 'BootCamp' VM in Fusion.
Will Time Machine also backup the Boot camp partition or will I need a separate XP backup software for that? I assume that Time Machine will successfully backup a Fusion vmdk file, obviating the need for a separate windows backup if XP is directly installed in Fusion?
Time Machine can not backup a BootCamp partition, you need something like WinClone http://twocanoes.com/winclone/
Since the vmdk file is changed so much while running, it is not recommended to use Time Machine for that file, because of the resulting workload for Time Machine.
For a vmdk file it is better to copy it with the Finder to a backup location.
Regards
Stefan

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I've read countless discussions about similar questions to this one, however, I still haven't been able to find any solution.
I have an old 2006 MacBook that has just been fully updated and reformatted. I'm running OSX 10.7.5 and Boot Camp 4.
I went through the Boot Camp installation from an Windows ISO image in my usb drive, where it succesfully downloaded all files needed, and prompted me to make the partition, after which it restarted and was supposed to take me to the installation manager in the Windows partition. I first got the "No bootable driver" error, to which I read I was supposed to restart the computer, hold the alt key, and choose the boot camp partition. However, it does not show up. I only get Mac and Recover drivers.
I went into the Mac's startup disk, and only the Mac driver is showing, no Boot Camp driver, however, when I go into Disk Utilities, I can see that the BootCamp driver there.
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