Restore a Windows Partition

Hi
I am running a lab of Intel Minis as a dual boot lab and have been trying to get Norton's Ghost (8) to back-up/restore the PC side of the lab. I have been doing this in other labs with Intel iMacs with no problem at all, but when I try the exact same thing with the Minis it doesn't seem to work. Has anyone else had this problem and, does anyone have a potential solution. I know there are other ways of rebuilding but Ghost is the standard for the PC guys and I would like to try and keep everything the same.
Thanks alot
Mike

Is there any way of restoring the clone without needing the Windows 7 installation disc? I mean is it possible to do this: create a Boot camp partition, then just restore the clone from an external disk onto this partition?
I don't want to install the Windows 7 software because it's a lot of bother for me, activation problems and so on. I have to do it while I am on phone with a MS person.

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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)

Can I restore the Windows side of my partition to factory settings without affecting the Mac side?

I want to restore the Windows 8 side of my partition to factory settings, but I don't want the mac side to be affected. Is there any way to do that?

vois0011 wrote:
I have no idea what to do, I've tried multiple things and I still cant acess my wifi network when im on the windows side of my computer
You provided no information about your computer, your operating system, network, errors, or Windows version. But I'll take some guesses.
What did you try? What happens when you try? Any error messages? Did you download and install the Windows Support Software, or install it from your Snow Leopard Install Disk if you are using Snow Leopard? Did you look in the Windows Help menu to see how to set up wifi in Windows?

I get an error message saying, "An error occurred while restoring the disk to a single partition." when I try to use Boot Camp Assistant to remove my Windows partition. Help?!

I'm trying to remove my Windows partition and delete Boot Camp altogether off my laptop. When I try to remove the partition, I get an error saying "An error occurred while restoring the disk to a single partition."
Can someone please help?

Boot from another hard drive or DVD and repair with Disk Utility.

How to restore OSX after I add another drive in window partition?

I installed Windows 7 using Bootcamp one month ago and it worked fine.
Today, I decided to make another drive in Windows partition.(I din't know I could not make another drive.)
So, I shrank C drive and made E drive using disk manager in Windows.(I could not choose D drive)
After I did that, I saw that OSX partition was gone and G and H drives were made.
I no longer see boot option to select OSX or Windows when I boot.
I can only select Windows. I can not boot to OSX.
How can I restore OSX?
I don't want to lose data in Mac.

Do a backup.
The first thing you need to do is sort out which partition has what on it and how many partitions you want to keep.. Then boot into the Recovery Volume (command - R or hold down option key) and restart. Use Disk Utility to set the number of partitions you want. If everything is really messed up, you might want to erase the entire disk and then reset the partitions. I would run Disk Utility Repair Permissions and Verify before installing. Then reinstall the OS on the partition you want. If you erase the drive then reinstall Boot Camp/Windows.

Does restoring a computer back to a certain date in time remove the Windows partition created by Boot Camp?

If I'm wanting to restore my computer back to a certain date in time using a TM backup, will it remove my Windows partition? For example, say I choose to restore back to a date when I did not have the Windows partition on the computer, does it remove the partition, or does it keep it on the computer since it's a separate partition?

I didn't say TM could use an MS-DOS partition. I just said "You can't really state that "Windows partition is invisible to TM", since a Windows XP partition could be formatted MS-DOS, and thus is not invisible to TM." I am right. You shouldn't make blanket statements that are not true.

I have a MAC laptop, there used to partition windows XP but I want to change it to windows 7. and after my intstal do not want the road and a partition for windows missing. how to restore windows partition?

I have a MAC laptop, there used to partition windows XP but I want to change it to windows 7. and after my intstal do not want the road and a partition for windows missing. how to restore windows partition?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
You have an Early 2008 Mac Pro. You have the specs that your Mac Pro needs for more memory > https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4433#4 As you can read, that computer should have come with 2 GB of memory.
You can buy memory at OWC or Crucial > http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory#800-memory Those sell compatible memory with all Macs. You can use another memory, but you can be sure that the memory that these brands sell are compatible

Can't restore to 1 partition after bootcamp

Ok so I ran into a weird problem, and after searching for a while I can't seem to find a solution.
Can't find anyone else who has had the same problem either.
I'm currently running a 2012 RMBP. I had bootcamp installed running Windows 7.
Today I wanted to remove the Bootcamp partition to free up some space on my HD.
So I went to Bootcamp Utility and selected the option to restore Mac to 1 partition and remove bootcamp
After a while it gives me an error message, something like "cannot remove bootcamp partition or restore mac to single partition"
Ok...
But not the bootcamp partition is gone from the bootcamp utility. It's also gone from Disk utility and the Finder.
But the space that the partition was occupying (about 20+ gigs) did not change.
So it's like it's still there but I cannot erase it or get that space back for some reason.
I've tried everything. I tried rebooting using CMD+R and going to disk utilities from there also. But the bootcamp partition
doesn't show up at all. But the space it was taking is still there.
Also in Disk Utility I cannot "erase free space", it's greyed out. I can't do anything. It's like the bootcamp partition is gone, but
the space is still being taken up. So it was never really removed.
I don't know what else to do. Any ideas? Has this happened to anyone else?

I encountered the same, or very similar problem with my 2012 15" rMBP. Upon trying to uninstall Windows 7 and its associated 60GB Partition via Boot Camp Assistant (BCA), some sort of error (dialog disappeared too quickly to recall specifics) apparently prevented completetion. During my second attempt, the process appeared to stall at about 25-30% completion. After the "progress bar" hadn't moved for 10 minutes, I quit BCA.
My third attempt ended at the second BCA screen, as the initial three options (for installing Windows) were again available. I thought perhaps I had actually erased the Windows Partition, but Disk Utility still displayed an unnamed 60GB Partition. Unfortunately, resizing my boot volume to 768GB triggered a file system verification error, as did Mende1's thoughtful solution.
Finally, after highlighting my SSD (not my boot volume Partition) and selecting "Verify Disk", the "Repair disk in Recovery Mode" error suspended Verification. After rebooting in Recovery Mode (command + R after chime), repairing the drive in Disk Utility did just that, and I was able to simply resize my boot volume Partition, removing the empty partition. I guess BCA had uninstalled Windows 7, but failed to remove the partition.
Sorry for the longwinded post, but since the OP's solution didn't work for me, I thought I would share the process that worked for me.
Michael Henk

How can I get my Windows Partition to be a startup disk?

I have Tiger 10.4.11, I had boot camp, Running Vista, Just fine for months.
I recently had a problem, within vista which caused a problem with the hard drive/master boot record which wouldn't allow Vista to boot anymore and actually reported "missing operating system".
Previously if I did nothing, after powering on my MacBook, it would default to the Windows partition and start it up (Vista).
Of course I could change this from the "startup disk" applet from within Tiger or I could use boot camp from within Vista.
I have since been able to fix my Vista related startup issue, however at present the MacBook is booting into Tiger by default.
I can HOLD the OPTION key and select either OS.
From the "startup disk" applet within Tiger, it no longer shows "Windows" as a startup option which seems to be an indicator of a problem with Tiger of how it sees the hard drive and/or partition.
I ran disk utility, no change.
How can I make Windows appear as an option in the "startup disk" applet within Tiger?
I can use Boot Camp within Vista, to select the "Windows" disk to restart from, and that works, but I would like to restore full functionality to Tiger.
Thank you and please advise,
Joe

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions ...
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Carolyn

What program for backing up my windows-partition?

hey. i recently made a new partition using boot camp assistant.
its formatted as ntfs with windows 7. the problem is, i need more space.
the logical thing to do is to clone the windows-partition from os x, then delete it.
this way i could just make a new one with more space, and restore the image i cloned earlier.
ive seen many giving winclone a chance for this specific job.
i also tried winclone, but i encountered a problem which is (according to many people) due to the fact that
winclone has certain issues/problems with cloning a partition with windows 7.
after around 20 seconds into the cloning process, i get an error message.. probably
because of what i mentioned above.
a quotation "Winclone on Snow Leopard (10.6) has an issue cloning Windows 7 (NTFS) partitions. Disabling compression in Preferences may resolve this."
i would like to check in the preferences of winclone to see if disabling this compression might do the trick,
the only problem is - i cannot locate any preferences.. anywhere. how come?
and, is there a better and just as simple alternative to winclone out there, to pull this job?

Your question is a Windows question really and has nothing to do with a Mac or OS X. You may find some help in the Boot Camp forum though. Click Apple Support Communities they type Boot Camp.
Good luck.
Roger

IPod and Windows Partition

Hello,
I've recently purchased the latest generation MacBook with a 4th generation iPod Nano. A couple of weeks ago I had my iPod connected to the MacBook while it was running Boot Camp (on Windows XP Service Pack 2) and soon after this I noticed that my iPod said that it had no songs. I opened iTunes (on the Mac partition) to find that all the data that was once songs is now listed as "Other". After no luck with getting it to work, I chose to restore the iPod back to factory settings, but the problem still persisted. Whenever I added a song to the iPod, it would show up in iTunes on the iPod as a song, but as soon as I disconnected, the iPod would say that it had no songs, and when I reconnected, iTunes couldn't detect any songs on it.
Since then, I have tried reverting iTunes to an earlier version (as I installed iTunes 8.1 around the same time as this and thought that this may have been the problem), restoring the iPod multiple times, and eventually used Disk Utility to erase the iPod to see if that would help. I've also been looking on many forums where users have had some similar problems and tried their fixes, but none have worked.
I came across this article (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1493) today which suggested changing the Drive Letter on the Windows side, which I did and changed the iPod from 'E' to 'I', and then my flash drive which was listed as the 'G' drive is no longer detected on either the Mac or Windows partition. I also ran a "Hotfix" .exe file from the Microsoft site that the support article was linking to, which didn't appear to help either. As far as I know, there is no other device that has an 'I' Drive letter (sorry I don't know much about Windows as I've been using Mac all my life).
So if someone could help me out or point me to a relevant link, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks very much

...Anyone have any ideas at all?

Boot camp assistant no longer registers my windows partition.

I recently decided to wipe my macbook pro (aluminum) and reinstall OS X on it. Using my leopard install disk, I erased the drive. I had a windows partition running at the time, but I decided no to erase that as well. Unfortunately it seems as thought the disk couldn't install snow leopard from scratch, so I installed tiger (my leopard disk wasn't working) and upgraded from there. This worked, and now I've got snow leopard up and running, the only issue is that boot camp assistant doesn't register my hard drive as being partitioned, so I cant remove or add partitions, though I can still boot into XP.
I want to remove and resize the partition, should I use disk utility to erase it? Or is there an alternate solution?
Thanks
-Will

Well, I just noticed the restore button at the bottom corner of boot camp assistant. Seems to have solved the problem XD.

Why can't I recover disc space after removing Windows partition?

Greetings,
I have an early 2008 iMac 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo with a 500 GB HD that I have steadily updated from Leopard to Mountain Lion. I also had partitioned my HD using Bootcamp 2.0 to run Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit. Everything hummed along nicely until the upgrade to OS 10.8.2. After that I could no longer start up in the Windows partition, ostensibly due to system registry files having become corrupt (or missing). After several vain attempts at recovering Vista, I determined to start over using Bootcamp (now upgraded to 5.0), but 5.0 would install Windows 7, apparently not Vista. I was able to remove the Windows partition using Bootcamp 5.0 (the Windows drive no longer shows up at start up when I hold down the option key Macintosh HD and Recovery 10.8.2 remain). I was hoping to recover the remaining HD space for the Mac. In Disc Utliity, it shows the Mac HD occupies 337 GB of space (about 86 GB is free). The remaining 162 GB is greyed out. If I resize the Mac HD to take up the remaining space and attempt to repartition it says "Partition Failed -- couldn't modify partition map because file system verification failed".
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I have a problem on my early 2011 macbook pro customized with core i5 processor and 500gb hdd regarding BOOTCAMP for Installing Windows 8 on OS 10.9 Mavericks
I tried to install windows 8 with bootcamp on OS X 10.9 Mavericks but while partitioning bootcamp was not responding and then i force quit it. After that i opened disk Utility and it showed no partitions for windows 8.
But then my HDD which had 210GB free later showed as 136.27 Gb free only. IT means that my partition was not successful and it took up 74GB on my HDD.
I dont want to erase my HDD and Reinstall OS X but want a solution to get my 74GB space back on my hdd without troubles of formatting and restoring from backup.
Plz Help Solution Needed Urgently.

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There is no system like Acronis for the Mac platform. You can try using the buiilt in Disk Utility to create an Image of the complete Mac drive but I have found that this does not work very well as on tryiing to restore it gives errors sometimes.
You can use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to create a bootable Clone of your system partition. But that is only for the System partition and not the complete drive.
If you use Boot Camp to install Windows on your Mac neither of those two programs will clone the Windows side.
Neither will Disk utility as Mac's can not create or write to a NTFS partition. So some other program is need for that.

How do I restore a Windows 8.1 system image if I upgraded from Windows 8?

I have a new HP Envy TouchSmart 15 Notebook PC 15-j003cl.
It came with Windows 8 which I upgraded to Windows 8.1.
I created the HP Recovery USB flash drive.
From my reading I understand that the recovery USB flash drive is Windows 8 not 8.1.
My question is:
Can I restore a Windows 8.1 System Image Backup I made on a USB hard drive using the Windows 8 recovery USB flash drive?
Or, to put it another way, what is the recommended procedure to back up an upgraded Windows 8.1 computer so, in the event of hard-drive failure, I don't have to start with Windows 8, upgraded to 8.1, re-install all my apps?
Thanks
Kirk

OK here's where I am now and a few followup questions,
Started with Windows 8.
Upgraded from Windows Store to Windows 8.1
Installed lots of apps and got everything running the way I like.
I created a full system image of my upgraded 8.1 hard drive to an external USB hard drive.
I have successfully created a recovery boot USB flash. (did not copy recovery partition) I can restart the computer from
it and navigate up to the point where it will restore my system image made after I upgraded to 8.1. (I don't want to risk
trying it for fear it will mess up my computer)
Assume my hard drive failed and I have a new blank hard drive:
My question is at this point does it matter that this was originally a windows 8 (not 8.1) computer?
Will I be able to restore the image of 8.1?
Does it matter which version of Windows I created the recovery boot USB flash on? ( I can't tell when it boots from the
recovery USB flash if it is running Windows 8 or Windows 8.1.
I wish there was a way to test this without risking losing all the work I have done to configure the computer??
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Kirk

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