Does it backup BootCamp partition as well ?

Unfortunatly, I would like to install Windows Xp with BootCamp to play some Games (LOTR, Half Life, C&C3) but i wonder if Time Machine will back up the partition as well and if i need to restore Leopard if he will restore Boot Camp with it ?

You can tell it what disks/partitions you want to back up, or exclude. I don't believe it will back up Windows, though, and if you use NTFS it couldn't restore to it anyway. You might want to look on the Boot Camp discussions, especially the betas, as there were discussions there about how to back up or "clone" Windows partitions. Different approaches are needed for FAT32 versus NTFS.
Doug

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Does Time Machine backup Boot Camp partitions as well?

If I have a Boot Camp partition (I do), will it be backed up by Time Machine as well?
How can I check? I.e. how can I open that partition from Mac OS / Time Machine?

You can backup Bootcamp Windows partition with the free WinClone to another drive (not TimeMachine)
Runs in OS X, don't think it will get updated for Lion, so watch that new cat before jumping, it's going to brick things.
http://download.cnet.com/Winclone/3000-2242_4-11089354.html
Also look at the free Carbon Copy Cloner, a clone of your boot drive is hold option bootable
TimeMachine isn't. A clone is great to have if your hard drive takes a nose dive one morning.
http://www.bombich.com/

Backup my bootcamp partition with time machine ?

I have read a few discussion about this subject here in Apple Support Communities but none of them was really new.
I read that it is not possible to backup my bootcamp partition by using time machine. Does anyone has any up to date ideas on how to make this work in the best possible way ? I am on os x 10.8.4 and I use bootcamp with windows 7. I want to abe able to backup all my osx data, all my bootcamp data + an external hard drive data that I use for my windows files.
Alltogether in one hd.
Thanks in advance.

Look at CopyCatX to do a whole drive backup. If you want to include an external hdd then get a large external drive and make two partitions, one for the Mac including Boot Camp backup and one for the external hdd backup.
http://subrosasoft.com/software/copycatx

Backup for Bootcamp partition

Is there a way to backup my bootcamp partition to TM? The TM application doesn't give alot of options other than to exclude things, but not to add.
If I look in TM backups of my computer, the "C" drive is not shown. When I look in TM to see if the C drive is being excluded, it is grey'd out, not offering the option to exclude OR include it. In documents/virtual machine, there is NOTHING. I read somewhere that the entire virtual machine is stored here which would make for easy backup, but it appears to be more of a 'document' storage folder (unless I am missing something hidden, but that doesn't appear to be the case).
I run my business AutoCAD through Fusion and would like to backup the system at least once a week, just for the mere fact of settings, etc. All other project and business data is stored on my iMac partition, which DOES back up through TM. Any suggestions??

I read somewhere that the entire virtual machine is stored here which would make for easy backup, but it appears to be more of a 'document' storage folder (unless I am missing something hidden, but that doesn't appear to be the case).
Since you decided to use Fusion to work with a Bootcamp partition, you don't have Windows in a real Virtual Machine file. Parallels and Fusion can build their own virtual hard drives (really just files on the mac), with the OS, applications, and files on the Mac hard drive.
Apparently, you haven't used that option, but rather are using Fusion to work with a real MS-Dos partition that was created by Bootcamp. Time Machine can't work with a partition like this. I guess you decided to use Bootcamp for performance reasons, but it also means you will probably want to use a program like WinClone to back it up. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/25932
In addition, if you do decide to use a Virtual Machine file to run windows instead of a Bootcamp partition, you will still probably want to exclude the VM file from the Time Machine backup because Time Machine will want to create a whole new copy of the entire VM file every time you use windows. I just manually copy the VM file to an external drive on occasion.

Can I resize my existing Bootcamp partition (leaving XP Pro behind) while doing a clean Win 7 install?

I currently have a Bootcamp partition (30 Gb or so) running XP pro. I want to switch to Win 7, which I understand requires a clean install since there is no upgrade path from XP directly to Win7. While doing so I want to increase the size of my BC partition. (I'm offloading iTunes and iPhoto to external drives and freeing up 60+ Gb so I can make a bigger partition)
Do I just run Bootcamp Assistant and do the deed as if I were starting from scratch, but specify a larger partition?
The full scenario is that I have an HP laptop running Win7, and XP pro in Bootcamp. I want to swap them. Any advice on the process? Activate/Deactivate/Reactivate dance. I realize this is a Windows question, but someone may have done this before.
Thanks for any help.

contrary to kappy, you can buy and use CampTune to resize.
you can't use a HP install on Mac.
you need a retail Win7 to activate on a different motherboard.
Start from scratch. Anything else is likely to have problems.

Restoring a windows ISO backup on Bootcamp Partition

My Details:
Model Name:    MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:    MacBookPro11,3
Processor Name:    Intel Core i7
Processor Speed:    2.3 GHz
Number of Processors:    1
Total Number of Cores:    4
L2 Cache (per Core):    256 KB
L3 Cache:    6 MB
Memory:    16 GB
Boot ROM Version:    MBP112.0138.B11
SMC Version (system):    2.19f12
OS: 10.10.1
Bootcamp Partition: Winblows 8.1 Pro
The History: hard crash... restore everything
Unable to restore from time machine.
Installed OSX Maverricks via Internet Recovery
Installed Windows 8.1 Pro via Boot Camp
Transfered Data from Thunderbolt External HD via Migration Assistant (Crashed twice, worked on third try)
I was able to get my stuff back in working order including Bootcamp To run windows... The trick was to install windows before importing data with migration assistant. Loading Windows would fail if I imported migration assistant data before hand.
The Problem: I have a windows backup 30gb ISO from before the crash that I want to load up. Has anyone performed this? is there a way to get my windows data re-installed into this machine?
Is it possible to load the System Restore into a USB and simply just re-installing the earlier date ISO?
any expertise in restoring my Windows Partition would be greatly appreciated.

Windows Backup Restore goes through all the prompts.
When it's at the step to start writing to the partition I get an error along the lines of it can't over write to that partition. I wish I had a screenshot of the error message.
My BootCamp Partition is 120GB so the 30GB ISO should extract no problem.
Either way, I think I am SOL
I dowloaded winclone 4.4 and that too was a catastrophic fail with a test partition.
There should be an easier way to back up and restore your BootCamp Partition. In todays day and age Software like TM should be able to image your entire system. All it's partitions, and give you the ability to restore everything to a certain point in time.
This has been a huge ordeal, I'm shocked that Yosemite, wouldn't even restore from Time machine. Looking through this forum, TM has a lot of issues in Yosemite. Thankful Migration Assistant at least gave me my data back (after two very worrisome crashes)

How to backup a bootcamp partition?

Will Winclone (or any other program) work under Lion to backup a bootcamp Windows partition? I currently use Winclone 2.2 under Mac OS 10.6.8. Also, is there anything else I need to know about my bootcamp partition before updateing to Lion? Thanks!

I would think you could use Winclone to migrate the previous Boot Camp partition to a newly created BC partition on your new drive. You would go through the Boot camp procedure to the point of installing windows then quit Boot Camp installation. You should have a partition ready for the old installation.
Not having done this myself, you need to get in touch with Two Canoes software for expert sdvice.
http://twocanoes.com/winclone/support
Paragon Software has been used successfully for backing up Winclone and they may be able to advise you as to their products capability to do this kind of migration.
http://www.paragon-software.com/products/home/
You of course will need to have a way to connect the old hard disk with either an adapter or an enclosure.
http://eshop.macsales.com/search/universal+drive+adapter

I installed win 8.1 on my iMac on the bootcamp partition and can't access OSX anymore. What am I doing wrong?

Ever since I installed Windows I don't have an option to switch to Mac.I installed it on the bootcamp partition with the lastest OSX and Windows versions. I did this a few years ago with an older Mac and Vista and remembered a prompt to choose OS during boot. I get nothing but Windows now. Any ideas?

if you restsrt and hold down alt, what boot options do you see
try restarting holding down command+R, choose disk utility and tell me what you see on the upper left hand side under the name of your physical drive

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.

What does upgrading to Mavericks due to my BootCamp partition?

I'm still running my OSX 10.6 that was upgraded to 10.8, but i haven't downloaded and installed 10.9 yet. If I install Mavericks, will that make any changes to BootCamp or should that still function the same after the upgrade? Right now my laptop boots to the Windows partition by default. Do i have to upgrade bootcamp after?

From what has happened to me and it seems quite a few people is that your windows/bootcamp drive will either just not allow you to boot to it. Or at worst you wont even be able to see it as an option when you hold down "alt" at startup.
In other words, Maverick really screws with the bootcamp partition.

Does Time Machine backup BootCamp

I have an Imac & a MBP with Bootcamp partitions. I back-up to a Time Capsule using Time Machine. Do I need to do anything special to include the Bootcamp patition in that auto back-up process?

No. TM will not back up a Windows installation via Boot Camp. TM only works with OS X.

How can I restore Windows 7 to Bootcamp partition - not reformat the entire hard drive?

Hello Apple (Mac) Community,
I originally posted this question over on answers.microsoft, but no help was forthcoming. Hope someone can help me with a problem that's (almost) making me nuts! I teach graphics to college students. In brief: I run Windows 7 Pro 64 on a Mac Pro tower, along with Snow Leopard (OSX). Windows is loaded on one partition of a 1TB drive. The other partition is a Mac backup. The Mac OS is on a different drive. Everything was going swimmingly with both OS, until recently. Unfortunately, the drive with Windows showed problems and I determined that the HD was either toast or needed a total reformat. My Mac data was all backed-up. Now I wanted to backup Windows so I can easily get back to the relatively happy point of my Windows 7 experience (drivers loaded, dual monitors all working, etc.). I did some online searching and the recommendation was to create a "system image" of the existing Windows 7 install by attaching an external drive, formatting that to NTFS and selecting "backup to image" in Windows. I did that and also took the opportunity to "create a backup disc" on a DVD. (Windows recommended). Next I rebooted back to Mac OS and completely reformatted the problem 1TB disc to a single partition, zero all data, just to see if it would actually reformat. It all worked! So far, so good. Next I used Bootcamp to create two partitions, one for Windows. I then restarted using the Win7 Pro (64) install disc, reformatted the Bootcamp disk to NTFS (as required) and installed Windows 7. After all that is completed and all working, I next try to use the restore from image function while booted in Windows. I'm instructed to restart from the Win install disc, which I do. Here's where things get difficult. When I try to choose restore from image, at that point the installer asks which drives to I want to exclude... but does not show partitions, only full HDs. I do not want to reformat the entire 1TB drive. I only want Windows on the 120gb Bootcamp partition (which is already formatted for Windows BTW). I spent a lot of time online reading through articles with users having the same frustration.
So here (at long last) is my question: How can I either restore Windows just to a Bootcamp partition... using "Windows System Image" or if that can't be done... can I somehow import all of the settings, etc. from the "image" (image is on external HD) into a fresh Win 7 install? So far the "backup disc" also seems useless. I can't even boot to Windows from it. BTW Apple folks: the only response on the MS side was that some "expert" simply posted links on how to install Windows and restore... not helpful with my particular problem of restoring to a partition.
Any help would be appreciated! Hopefully some help that even a Mac user / new Windows user could understand would be better! Thanks!
-melt

WinClone 3 is OS X and saves Windows image it makes for restore - that should work but you will have to try and you would need to make a new image unless it also works with a native Windows system restore image. It is now supported and has come a long way.
http://www.twocanoes.com/
Paragon Clone OS works and does disk-to-disk clone just like CCC you end up with two bootable drives. But does not work with your setup. It would let you clone and move your Windows install to an SSD or another disk drive though and be bootable.
During its clone process it checks for errors which is very helpful and lets you know - something CCC and others should adopt more of.
http://www.paragon-software.com/downloads/demo.html
I wish for our/my sake you had re-read and rewritten the long 'story' and broken it into a brief list of facts we needed.
OS X
Windows
Backup (though external is much safer) and you want bootable OS X clones as well as TimeMachine
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
There are a number of things to do like chkdsk and others as well as Windows DVD to do automatic system repairs and find out why.
AppleHFS - the abilty to mount and read HFS volumes can be notorious.
I would rearrange and redo your storage setup and how you use the 4-5 internal hard drive bays.

Windows_7 Bootcamp Partition Back Up?

If i use traditional windows back up software for a bootcamp partition can i restore from same? I'm reluctant to upgrade to Lion without knowing my bootcamp windows 7 partition is safe and that it could be restored if necessary. I use Time Machine but was told that the bootcamp partition is not backed up by it.
Any thoughts?

Ralph below are reproduced a bunch of Bootcamp cloning comments previously posted on this forum.
I collected these so I would have a ready reference to the topic if needed. I give credit to and thank all the individuals who made these comments even though I do not have specific names recorded.
If Acronis 2011 w/ Plus Pak would work; Casper 6 does seem to work; Windows 7 has its own built in system image + backup + Windows Easy Transfer - but doesn't work with AppleHFS/MNT (that HFS read-only which confuses Windows 7 backup).
WinClone was handy for XP users but doesn't for instance check for errors during the backup only during restore (was how I found I had two bad sectors though).
Known? as I said it has been around and results using are mixed (everyone is different).
"Some" Windows clones? multi license etc? there are better tools for deploying Windows.
Acronis 2011 w/ plus pak, didn't work well previously, and they had complaints and issues with Windows 7 - on PC hardware. Check their forum
Casper 6 - known to work
Paragaon - they looked like their "Boot Camp Support" might, and they have CampTune; NTFS for OS X; and other products but backup/restore?
Ghost 15 - probably not, and they didn't like my comment so lost my userid there.
Windows 7 system backup and restore - Apple's goofy HFS read-only interferes with system and file backup so have to rename AppleHFS and AppleMNT to use. Also, MacDRive8 probably better if you need read and/or write ability to HFS.
People have used Linux CD (which is what Acronis and others use) on Mac and to update firmware etc on drives and graphic cards.
Obviously you want to test and have good backups.
If you are willing to reinstall, then all you need is Windows Easy Transfer (hidden folders like AppData need to be Custom/Advanced included) before and after; and all your updates etc. Then reinstall programs.
Ah, I don't see how backup of Windows that can't be restored is of any value or use! the whole purpose for backups is to restore files, OS, partitions, etc.
Yes, Windows 7 SP1 may be more sensitive but people clone Windows all the time.
I Use and recommend Paragon Hard Drive Suite 2011 because it works great on Mac Pro doing Windows to clone to/from SSD or any other drive. They have separate programs for Boot Camp too
I have restored from DU, CCC, SuperDuper and TM, they all worked, TM was slower but not a lot, you can boot from the others, which I prefer.
I have also used Casper, Clonezilla and Paragon but less regularly, Casper failed a few times, I stopped using it, Clonezilla worked but took forever (for me) Paragon (which I have only used twice) was the best but my sample is limited.

Is the Yosemite installation affecting the BootTable/Bootcamp partition as Mavericks did?s

HI community,
before I'll install OS X Yosemite I want to make sure it does not have the same problems as the Mavericks installation had. When I installed Mavericks as a clean install on my OS X partition it razed the boot table of my MacBook Pro. That way I was not able to access my Bootcamp partition, which I require for work. Lost all data on the Bootcamp partition last time.
Do you you have experienced any similar issues with installing Yosemite next to a Bootcamp partitin?
thank you in advance

Ok, it's been some time, but I haven't had the time to get to repair my Windows earlier.
Thanks GeekBoy for pointing me to that article. After I did a proper backup I tried creating a new MRB via gdisk, but it did not solve the issue.
In the end I just did a clean format of the partition and reinstalled windows. After everything is up and running now, I've made a backup of it using Winclone Pro, just in case.
I'm not quite sure I understand your comments towards Fusion Drive (I didn't create one) and on these older MacBooks you also can't use a USB installer, because it can't boot windows from USB when it originally came with a SuperDrive.
So how did I install it in the end?
Well I made a new thread for that:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24708887#24708887

Keep Bootcamp partition after am OS downgrade?

After a bit of a battle I now have W7 sitting on my 10.6.2 Bootcamp partition. I now wish to 'downgrade' to 10.5.8 because it is impossible to run Palm and iSync on SL.
Will my W7 partition survive the reinstall of Leopard? Will it be accessible from Leopard and how will I ensure that it is? I would prefer to do a full install than a restore from Time Machine as the earlier install was getting a bit flakey - a bit like Windows (do others find this happens?)

I'm afraid you are concerned over nothing. Windows boots on its own as does OS X. Installing a lesser version of OS X will have no impact on your Windows installation as I said at first. The dual boot option will still be there. If you want a means of recovery just in case, then download WinClone - VersionTracker or MacUpdate - and use it to make a backup archive of your Windows partition. Since WinClone is an OS X application you can create and restore the archive directly from OS X.
Your loss of dual booting in other systems has more to do with the nature of the bootloader, how it's installed, and that Windows can blow it. That's not the case with the Mac. Boot Camp Assistant sets up an independent partition fully compatible with Windows but allowing each operating system to exist independently of the other.
There's nothing wrong with GRUB. Some Linux users rely on GRUB to provide dual boot capability between Linux and OS X. That's because the Apple hardware and software are not delivered with Linux in mind - only Windows. For two reasons: 1. A large number of potential Mac customers need or want to use Windows; 2. OS X is a variant of Unix. There's very little need for Linux on the Mac. However, as far as I know the Mac's boot loader may very well be a modified GRUB - one that works with the EFI. After all Unix and Linux aren't that different - beyond the spelling.

Does it backup BootCamp partition as well ?

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