Boot camp files saved to time machine

I have recently made the change to mac, however alot of programs i need are only available with windows operating system. If I were to use boot camp to run windows and use the programs i need, after saving those windows files will they be saved to my time machine, since i am still running it on my imac?

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
in addition to Niels post, WinClone http://twocanoes.com/winclone/ is an OSX application which can make image files of your BootCamp Windows for backup.
Placing these image files on your OSX partition will get Time Machine to backup this file.
A Windows backup program to have a look at is Casper http://www.fssdev.com/products/casper/ but that needs to have an additional Windows file system (NTFS) partition on your external harddisk as destination for the backup.
Regards
Stefan

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Hi all, if you take the time to read my issue, thanks a lot. I appreciate any help you can offer, and sorry if anything is unclear...
The 1tb drive eventually failed on my 2009 27", quad core i7 imac. I had USB backup using time machine to an external 2 tb disk.
Repair guy took my mac to his shop, and installed a new samsung 1tb SSD.
He had trouble reinstalling from my time machine backup - so he's just installing Yosemite (I was using 10.8.x?) and giving it back to me with a fresh install of Yosemite.
When he tried to use time machine to restore my system to how it was, he started the process, and it said that it would take 13 hours, so he left it overnight.
When he returned, he found a white screen with a frozen mouse pointer. He did a hard reboot, and then could not access the drive at all - the system would not allow him to read the drive and he had to take the drive out, reformat from another mac, and then install Yosemite again.
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Thanks - I didn't know how to do that!
I did that, and it went through the steps for restoring from the time machine backup. I didn't click on "restore" just yet... My concern is that when the guy in the shop tried that, it resulted in the serious failure that required the drive to be removed and formatted from another computer.
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angelicagalera wrote:
hi i want to use boot camp for the first time but i was wondering if when you install windows in your mac there is any risk of virus?
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