Installation /Partitioning Woes

OK Leopard went on fine - I Ran BootCamp assistant and created a 32gb Partition - I put in My Windows XP Pro (that was supplied with a new PC) Service Pack 2 and Ran it All went fine then up came the first option Window - I selected the BootCamp Partition and The Mac Skipped the next formatting screen and started installing files. It Bypassed the Formatting Page. Windows wouldnt run. I searched the Forums and came up with all sortsof solutions for this - problem is - I'm a mac user - I dont do Big Computer speak so Im not sure what every ones talking about - I just want to know what's wrong and how I can fix it.
One solution is to delete a file in the 1394 folder - I can find this but cant work out how to delete a file from an install DVD (which wont let itself be copied)
I tried forcing the Install process to reformat the partition in the first window - that took me to the second window for the first time but once the system was installed I got the dreaded .HLL message - so its back to the drawing board.
Any one tell me how to solve this?

Yes - It seems that this particualr version of XP Pro SP2 has a file on it that screws up the install.
Cant work out how to get rid of the file!

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I have a 2009 iMac with the primary OS disk being an SSD and the secondary disk as my Home drive. I downloaded Yosemite via the App Store but never installed it. Instead, I created a bootable installation USB stick in order to perform a fresh installation on this iMac. After successful "clean" installation to the primary SSD, I noticed there is an approximate 100GB partition on my secondary Home HD called, "Install OS X Yosemite". How do I remove this partition without affecting all the contents on my HD?
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Please open Disk Utility, select the primary drive entry (out-dented) then click on the Partition tab in the main window. Take a screenshot and post here.
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Reset the PRAM > About NVRAM and PRAM
1. Shut down the computer.
2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
3. Turn on the computer.
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Exclamation mark folder, find a mac, erase, partitioning woes

Hi. Variations on this topic have been posted many times
and I've gone through many many many. I hope not to offend those who see this as duplication.
I have iPod 20gb dock connector. Pre-click wheel.
Have used on Windows XP for 1.5 years, no real trouble.
All of a sudden, the dreaded exclamation point/folder icon.
I tried all of the suggestions. It would not recognize the iPod. One suggestion I found a few times was to use a mac.
I have a new mac mini and planned to migrate iPod to that box anyway, so I tried.
Tried using Disk utility to Erase, per suggestions.
First try failed with input/output error. So I changed security option to write zeros. This seemed to work but then got stuck in creating partitions and never got out of it. I left it overnight.
Tried again with seven times over option. It is currently on pass 4 of 7.
I have all my music backed up, I don't need any info from the iPod, just to be able to use it again.
Any suggestions?
To re-state, Reset/Restore attempts are not successful.
Reset always goes back to disk mode.
Restore unsuccessful because iPod Updater software does not see it.

FOR SUGGESTION: See last paragraph...
MY PROBLEM:
I have a Mac formatted 4th Gen. iPod (B/W, click wheel, no photo). Have had problems with functionalitiy, (will not respond {click wheel}, will not mount, verify or erase in Disk Utility, Image usually will not appear on desktop) and when I charge it (wall socket) sometimes does not show the battery charging. Get both the "frowning iPod" and the ("!" Folder) when I reset... Have tried to restore (iPod updater) and it usually fails, although it inconsistantly says it restores (image appears on desktop), then fails to import and freezes my iTunes, Disk Utility and iPod updater as well as my G4 Quicksilver and my Power Mac G5. I have had this for just over one year (no more warrenty) and my battery is losing charge. I just used my (over the counter) Tiger DVD (as start-up disk) and tried using Disk Utility (twice). I've been working on this for a week now and I am at the point of opening the "**** thing" myself.
But a glimmer of hope has appeared after the last Tiger Disk Utility. It seems that after the last(Tgr.Dsk.Uty. and iPod restore) I have found 2 partitions; an Apple OS Ext Journaled and a Windows FAT 12 (not 32). Yes that is weird! Although the FAT 12 does take up 32 MB of space (just looked at it in D.U. partitions) and it seems to be the culpret of why my D.U. won't complete a First Aid or Verify or anything else for that matter. I want(ed) to have an iPod to use on both Windows and Macs but haven't been able to partition anything that works on both so far and I'm not sure if I should take this opportunity to "run with it (Fat 12)" or just restore again and get my Mac functionality back. Does anybody have a suggestion about 2 partitons (Mac/Windows) or should I just feel lucky and restore one more time?
MY SUGGESTION:
My suggestion here would be to use your Mac and it's DVD start-up/restore disk, (use it as your start-up disk and look at the top under utilities). First run a disk utility, a first aid, a partition and an erase (zero out) your iPod. Then run your iPod Restore a couple of times after restarting (be sure your iPod is fully charged through a wall socket first)... Good luck!
PowerMac G5, Dual 1.8 GHz, Superdrive, 2 GB DDR SDRAM Mac OS X (10.4.5) ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D: 4th Gen. iPod B/W screen

[SOLVED]installation: partition size FAIL, too small /var

Yeah, I managed to make a mess again.
I thought I had given the /var 15 GB and it turned out to be 1.5 GB, now I'm facing this situation:
[tomislav@shakenbake ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 14G 2.5G 11G 19% /
udev 10M 216K 9.8M 3% /dev
shm 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 464M 23M 418M 6% /boot
/dev/sda3 1.4G 1.1G 327M 78% /var
/dev/sda6 274G 1.8G 258G 1% /home
[tomislav@shakenbake ~]$
the 78% filled var is a BIG mistake. What do I do now? Should I use rsync and do a system backup, resize the /home partition using the cfdisk command and an Archlinux live CD, then copy everything back? Do this just for these two partitions (home and var are adjacent)?
Can I use rsync in a way that it stores the partition information, although I will send everything onto a single partition on an external HDD?
Damn it. This is what happens when you hurry: the newbness deamons get you.
Last edited by tomislavski (2010-04-02 14:30:14)

Hi, me again.
Everything works: I've managed to resize the partitions manually using cfdisk and creating the filesystems.
Still, "df -h" doesn't seem to notice the difference. I have written the partition table to disk during the cfdisk session, but something is wrong.
Here's "fdisk -l":
[root@shakenbake tomislav]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7a3cfdca
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 61 489951 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 62 1885 14651280 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1886 3101 9767520 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 3102 38913 287659890 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 3102 3648 4393746 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 3649 38913 283266081 83 Linux
[root@shakenbake tomislav]#
here's "df -h":
[root@shakenbake tomislav]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 14G 2.5G 11G 19% /
udev 10M 200K 9.9M 2% /dev
shm 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 464M 23M 418M 6% /boot
/dev/sda3 1.4G 1.2G 242M 84% /var
/dev/sda6 266G 1.7G 251G 1% /home
[root@shakenbake tomislav]#
and there's no swap in mount, although there is one in /etc/fstab:
[root@shakenbake tomislav]# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/sda3 /var reiserfs defaults,noatime,notail 0 2
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 /home ext3 defaults,noatime 0 2
[root@shakenbake tomislav]#
"mount":
[root@shakenbake tomislav]# mount
/dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=360)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
none on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=360)
/dev/sda3 on /var type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail,commit=360)
/dev/sda6 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=360)
[root@shakenbake tomislav]#
I didn't have to change /etc/fstab because the names of the partitions and the file systems remained the same after resizing.
The only thing that I've missed was the swap being actually between /var and /home but I've just moved everything by deleting/recreating/reformatting.
Why doesn't the kernel read from the written new partition table and still shows the wrong (old) sizes for the partitions?
I have done a system update, just to be sure, and as above in the "df -h" output, I've seen that my /var is now over 80% full, although I have resized it to 10 GB.
Although the swap is not mounted, I have tested it by using "pm-hibernate" and it works perfectly. It gets mounted and the session gets saved. I have some brightness issues there, but that's another problem...
Any advice?

Installation/Partitioning Issues

Hi
Brand new to Bootcamp. I have Parallels installed but disgusted with the USB issues. Would like to install my Vista Home Premium software with Bootcamp. After initiating the "partition" task I get this message: THE DISK CANNOT BE PARTITIONED BECAUSE SOME FILES CANNOT BE MOVED. It then suggests "Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again." Am I having this problem because I have Parallels installed?? Should I delete the Parallels before installing Bootcamp.
Thanks
Don S

Use Disk Utility or SuperDuper to clone your hard drive and have a bootable copy.
Reformat and restore.
Set to go.

Brand new Macbook--Partitioning woes

I purchased my first Macbook this week. Apple Store said to run software update after I got it set up, so I did, a lot of stuff was installed.
Read up on partitioning under Leopard, went about partitioning it into 2 equal size partitions. It went about "Modifying Partition Map"--then just kept going, going, and going. After about an hour and a half I got on my iMac (Tiger) and googled, found the same problem here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=467884
--with no real solution. I didn't want to wait 800 years for it to finish, so I forced quit Disk Utilities, and got a dire warning something to the effect, "Quitting while a process is taking place may render your drive inoperable." Yikes!
I waited another half hour and force quit, anyway. Macbook works fine as far as I can tell, though I haven't used it a great deal. Shows same free space as it did before this.
So, any hints before I try again? And any hints if the same thing happens again?
The main reason I want to partition is because I like having all my media files on one partition, everything else on another. Plus, I use the "erase free space" procedure on a regular basis, and it does this quicker with smaller partitions.
And yes, it was GUID, and MaxOSExtended(Journaled).
Thanks!

I purchased the Macbook on Tuesday. As my details show, it was a white Macbook with Superdrive, therefore it had a 160 GB hard drive. I came home, set it up, ran software update. That's it. Shut it down, went to bed. NOTHING else was on it.
The next day I attempt the partitioning. NOTHING else was on it except what came with it and what was installed with the software updates. Which, just guessing without looking (I'm on my iMac, trying to resolve this without messing too much with the BRAND NEW Macbook), takes less that 16 or so GB, leaving about 140 GB of NEVER-BEFORE-USED free space.
So I appreciate the responses, honest, I just don't see how they are applicable. Certainly a brand new Macbook doesn't come "severely fragmented" out-of-the-box.
Could there have been some type of indexing or such going on in the background (the new updates?) when I attempted the partitioning?
I will boot from the install DVD (which I haven't even touched--everything is pre-installed), run disk repair, then attempt the partition from the install DVD. But if this is necessary to partition in Leopard, why doesn't Apple, David Pogue (Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual) and several hundred websites just say so?
V.K., I don't quite understand what you mean when you say, "the system can not simultaneously access two partitions on the same drive so you'll be taken a performance hit." Is something different with Leopard? It sure worked with Tiger, you have your Quicktime, even iMovie files on one partition (or an external firewire drive, for that matter), click them on and play them, edit them, burn them to a CD, DVD, even though ALL of those APPLICATIONS are on your boot partition. Is that not "simultaneous access" ???? I never ever noticed a "performance hit" on my iMac with Tiger.

Button NEW disable on Installation Partitions - UCS-CSU.

I have a C240 and I used the Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility to create a RAID 1, now I'm trying to create a new partition, but when I choose a free space, the button NEW remains disabled.
I'm beginner in the UCS world, so if someone can help me, I appreciate.
Thanks.

HI Erick,
What kind of raid controller do you have installed on this server. If you have an LSI controller, I recommend that you try configuring the raid volume using the WebBiosUility. Below is a link to a document that can walk you through the configuration steps of this controller via this utility.
http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/MegaRAID%20Common%20Files/51530-00_RevF.pdf

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Hi guys,
I recently installed bootcamp on my computer (Windows 7 Home Premium x64) which glitched out and deleted my install partition and my normal Mac OS Lion partition which means it is no longer usable as an Apple Mac. I was wondering if any genius out there had any idea on how to recover the OS or the install drive. Any advice is much apreciated.
When I got my mac it came with Mac OS Lion installed already if that helps. It was also brand new

If your computer came with Lion, it means that you have Internet Recovery. You should use it in case that you can't access to Recovery HD like in your case or when the hard drive is damaged. Read > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
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1. Hold Command, Option (Alt) and R keys while your computer is starting, and open Disk Utility.
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After Boot Camp partition, iMac no longer boots

Hi, I have a 20" iMac Core Duo (the first Intel Mac off the line) running Snow Leopard 10.6.4. I ran the Boot Camp Assistant to partition my hard drive, and it successfully created the "BOOTCAMP" drive. When it asked for my installation CD, I tried loading a Windows installation partition through a USB hard drive, but the assistant would not recognize it as an install disk. So, I closed out of the assistant early, leaving the Boot Camp partition in place. Eventually, I rebooted my machine in an attempt to boot directly from the USB drive and resume installation.
However, I found the machine will not boot at all. It powers on normally, makes the startup sound, but after a few seconds I'm left with just a flashing folder and question mark icon. Holding down Option-key at startup does nothing. Trying to boot from my Snow Leopard disc by holding down C or D during startup does nothing. Holding down Command-S does nothing. Holding down Shift-key does nothing. Resetting the PRAM does nothing.
What can I do? Is there some way I can access the on-board EFI to make sure the correct startup disk is selected? Why am I unable to boot from my CD drive?
Thanks for your help, everyone.

On OSX go to System Preferences the Startup Volume and reset your Windows 7 partition to be the default.
On the next reboot it should automatically boot into Windows.
A PRAM-reset http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1895 can be the cause of this behavior.
Stefan

Clean install from a Lenovo installa. dvd: UEFI vs Legacy + Thinkpad setup acc. to Lenovo user Guide

Machine: T520 bought Feb. 2012
O.S. W~7 Pro 64-bit
I want to wipe the harddrive, buy a Lenovo W~7 PRO installation DVD, and do a completely clean installation.
Lenovo User Guide (.pdf) Ch. 8, Adv'd Config, Installing Windows 7, p. 295 (212 of 298) says:
Start Thinkpad setup, then choose UEFI versus Legacy, then insert the installation DVD.
This obviously does not apply when the harddrive has already been wiped (necessary to 100% eliminate all traces of irreversible damage caused by a virus, including the re-installation partition (Q-drive).
When an intallation DVD is purchased from Lenovo, is not the first step to insert the DVD ?!! Then presumably there is an installation wizard resulting in a restored O.S. ?!!
If not, please tell me what surprises are in store, and where I can find a reliable written resource to consult !!!
Thank-you.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

You're over-thinking this and making it harder than it needs to be. The manual isn't helping...
The BIOS is stored in non-volatile memory on the motherboard. One would probably call it firmware, not software. It is there regardless of what's on the HDD - or whether there's even an HDD installed.
Turn your machine off. Turn it on again. When you see the logo screen, hit F1 - multiple times if necessary. That gets you into the motherboard's BIOS configuration utility - what the manual is calling "Setup".
Here's a snip below from the T520 BIOS configuration utility (actually from the on-line BIOS simulator). In the StartUp tab you can see where UEFI/Legacy can be selected. You can configure UEFI boot there. Or "both". Or - probably - just select Setup Defaults, save, and exit.
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Two Boot Camps installs on the same Mac Pro?

Is it possible to install two Boot Camps on two different internal drives on a Mac Pro? Can I rename the Boot Camps disks to, say, BOOTCAMPXP and BOOTCAMP7? Will this confuse the startup disk system preference in OS X or the Boot Camp control panel in XP and Windows 7?
I would really appreciate any help here.
Steve

Hi,
first: be sure to have/make a backup of what you have now.
second: have a look at the instructions here http://www.harbar.net/articles/mbptb.aspx
The order you need to do the installation/partition is this:
Mac OSX, Win XP (instead of Vista), W7 (instead of Windows 2008 server) (as used in the linked article).
Good luck
Stefan

GS60 Windows 8.1 installation problem

Hello,
Two days ago I bought a msi GS60 2PE-211XPL without the system. I would like to install Windows 8.1 in UEFI mode but during installation when selecting the drive, I get a message that the installation is not possible, because partitions of both SSD and HDD disks are MBR instead of GPT. Is it possible to change the SSD from MBR into GPT before installation? I also have a question about a strange partitions 1. on both drives (size 1,9GB - image included). If I convert SSD into GPT will the partition be removed? Is there anything important on it?
Thanks in advance for your help:)

Watch that, it has the solution in it to allow you to change the partitions to GPT and allow you to install.
Bear in mind that doing this will erase all data on those partitions (obviously).
I do not know what your partition setup looks like, and unfortunately I cannot read what language your screen capture shows, but I'm guessing that the small 1.7GB is an installation partition and the other is the main windows partition.
Without knowing if you have any data that you wish to be saved from those partitions, it's difficult to say.

Can't boot from Ubuntu partition after upgrading to Yosemite

When i go to Disk Utility the Ubuntu partition appears as it always have, i had installed since Mavericks refind to boot from any partition. Now refind doesn't work and the alt/option key doesn't work either. Does anyone know a way to fix this?

A extensive report already written is in the Ubuntu stacks as
Dual boot Linux and Yosemite
Basically you need to follow http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/yosemite.html
wherein it explains that Yosemite is using a new LVM bootup from within the Recovery Partitions 10.10.
This messes up REFIT/REFIND tools which have previously installed Partition 1.S
See my current Table below , wherein << are my comments
Current GPT partition table:
#      Start LBA      End LBA Type
1             40       409639 EFI System (FAT)    << old preferred site for REFIT/REFIND tools
2         409640    154061023 Mac OS X HFS+ << main Mac partition
3      154061024    155330559 Mac OS X Boot << Recovery 10.10 , installed by Yosemite update, used to start MAC boot. BUT is not shown by Disk Utility, to prevent its naive deletion which would kill the MAC boot.
4      155330560    156598271 Mac OS X HFS+ << old Recovery 10.9, simply retained
5      157869786    228772129 Unknown << My Ubuntu partition
6      228772130    236765969 Linux Swap << which was shortened by 200 MB to make room for 7)
7      236765970    236974814 Mac OS X HFS+ << installation site of REFIND. Though 4) could have been used, there is a possibility that Apple might have future plans for this small 4) partition.
With 7) created (see detail below), my REFIND install command under MAC, within Downloads/refind-bin-0.8.3/ was:
sudo ./install.sh --alldrivers --ownhfs /dev/disk0s7
There was still required the edit if refind.conf.sample specified in Yosemite.html, which I named refind.conf.edit1
This was copied with:
sudo cp refind.conf.edit1 /Volumes/macefi/System/Library/CoreServices/refind.conf
macefi is my name for the MAC /dev/disk0s7 mount point, equivalent to /dev/sda7 under Linux
CAREFULLY do read Yosemite.html, as the instructions here are too terse by themselves!!!!
There are 2 routes to boot Ubuntu, and then creat 7) with GPARTED
a) If you can access the GRUB shell under an old REFIT/REFIND installation, partitions will be shown by:
grub> ls
Presence of a Linux file system can be confirmed by a command like:
grub> ls (hd0,gpt5)/
Output of
grub > ls (hd0,gpt5)/boot/grub/
should include a grub.cfg file. Then you can boot as usual with
grub > configfile (hd0,gpt5)/boot/grub/grub.cfg
After boot up, start GPARTED
b) Alternatively boot with the Ubuntu install disk, and choose the Demo option
Open a text console, and get admin proviledge with:
$ sudo su
# gparted
Using GPARTED, unmount if necessary any terminal SWAP partition, such as my 6) above
Then shrink the SWAP partition end by a trivial 200 MB,
Create a HFS+ partition in like my 7) for a coming REFIND installation
Note, that a file /etc/fstab contains a SWAP partition specification, which should be edited for automated SWAP start.
# sudo blkid /dev/sda7
will report the SWAP space specs LONG uuid code. This can be copied into memory by dragging the mouse over the uuid
Then SHIFT-CONTROL-C will copy it into memory.   Start an edit with:
$ sudo nano /etc/fstab
delete the old swap uuid, and paste in the replacement with
SHIFT-CONTROl-V
and swap should mount upon reboot, or with:
$ sudo swapon -a
Check with:
$ free
which should report none-zero swap space.

Bootcamp Partition Wont Mount, Boot and Is not Readable

thank you in advance to anyone who can be of support.
I have been running parallels desktop 6.0 on my macbook pro with no issues. I was using bootcamp as my virtual machine. I was also using bootcamp independently with absolutely no problems.
After upgrading to Lion, Parallels no longer worked and I used bootcamp exclusively. Finally i got fed up with having software that I paid for not work and tried to re-configure parallels to work. I erased all virtual machines and tried creating a new one from bootcamp. Parallels changed the name of my bootcamp partition to "disk0s4." Setup did not complete and now i have no parallels. Further, my bootcamp no longer works. I cannot even access the partition. It is greyed out on disk manager. I ran the recovery tool and tried repairing the partition and got the error: "disk utility cannot repair the disk.....reformat."
If anyone can tell me how to get this partition working again, it would be a miracle. However, at this point, my sole concern is somehow retrieving ONE folder that was saved on my desktop in windows that has some very very important documents that were not backed up last night. If someone can help me access those files through the mac side, I would be very appreciative.
I am running Parallels 6.0.12094. I have Mac OS X 10.7 on a MacBook Pro. Bootcamp was running 32-bit Windows 7.
I have posted this in the parallels forum as well. I figured someone on this forum would be more likely to adivse me as to whether I can somehow access files stored on the greyed out partition. thanks.
I have attached a screen shot of what disk utility states. Note it says the drive is formatted FAT (ms-dos?)

Will it run? Yes. You are making some assumptions. There is a thread over on Lion forum and cloning OS back and forth is fine.
The recovery partition is optional .
OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery
OS X Lion: "Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk (volume name)" appears during installation
Partition Lion + Windows
Look at coocooforcocoapuffs
Also, Paragon makes bootable clone drives for Windows (you just can't boot from it on a Mac without it being the internal drive). But that clone requires the entire drive, not just a partition. And not sure what you had in mind. Windows Easy Transfer is for data, not apps, not for Windows OS. But be that as it may.
Clone X 4 can do sector of an entire hard drive and all partitions. Or clone an HFS volume.

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