HT201250 Restoring Mac with Time Machine

I have a partitioned hard drive (Bootcamp) with Windows 7. Does Time Machine also capture that data, and will it restore it to the same or different Mac?

Great! Thanks for the response!
Pondini wrote:
All internal disks/partitions that are formatted for a Mac (any flavor of Mac OS Extended) will be backed-up by default (if desired, you can omit them via Time Machine Preferences > Options).  All external disks/partitions are excluded by default (you can include any that are formatted for a Mac, via the same option). 
All backed-up partitions can be restored, too, but one at a time.  No partitions are deleted (or created) by the restore process -- if necessary, that can be done via Disk Utility.  See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #32 for details and considerations.

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