Restoring from backup & bootcamp

I have a new hard drive (replacement as a result of a sudden failure) and now preparing to restore from backup. My backup is a bootable clone in an external drive, from which I'm now running. Yeah I'm on the spare tire, so hopefully no accidents before I get to my destination.
Originally I had OS 10.7.5 with a boot camp volume for Windows XP Pro. The Win partition had only apps and not data, so losing it was no real loss. I can reinstall Win XP along with all the Win apps.
So I'm now in Disk Utility trying to figure out how to partition the new drive, but I remember boot camp did that for me. Or does it? My fully functional OS 10.7.5 cloned volume is Mac only. It did not include the Windows volume.
How should I proceed to restore from backup and create a Windows partition?
For example, I'm looking at the partition schemes in the DU options, and they read:
GUID Partition Table
Apple Partition Map
Master Boot Record
Yet I remember boot camp did it for me so that I can get Apple software updates directly from within Windows.

A note previously posted by The hatter .
Windows 7 system backup and restore - Apple's goofy HFS read-only interferes with system and file backup.
For future reference here are some comments on Boot Camp backup that I have collected from this forum.
WinClone was handy for XP users but doesn't for instance check for errors during the backup only during restore. It was discontinued at 2.2, all 2.3 versions are hacks (removal of the OS check seems to be the main thing)
Acronis 2011 w/ plus pak, didn't work well previously
Ghost 15 - probably not
Casper 6 works for Windows on Boot Camp only but some report it failed.
CopyCatX is more lengthy and sector copy so takes the longest.
Paragon Hard Drive Suite 2011 because it works great and they have CampTune

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Why am getting a "error occurred while restoring from backup" message when restoring using Time Machine?

Hello
I recently made a Bootcamp partition with Windows 7 (which incidentally went absolutely fine). In that partition I wanted to split it for some certain files, but on doing so I appear to have completely tanked my hard drive - I've pretty much wiped the entire thing. I read afterwards that creating new partitions within Windows is a big no no Bootcamp wise, and this wasn't something I knew about before. Lesson learnt!
Either way, I had a backup and though it would be simple enough to restore from that backup, but about 2% in it it pops up "an error has occurred while restoring from backup, please restart and try again". After a few tries, this didn't work, so now I'm worried that my backup is corrupt.
I'm not sure why the backup would be corrupt as this was made with no problems as normal.
I've already tried the standard restore with no success (obviously), and I've also tried re-installing the OS up to the first boot, then trying to restore (thinking that the error was a result of a missing Recovery HD, which the re-install would create) and this was with no success also.
My final idea was to just erase the drive and re-install the OSX, and then when it prompts me, restore the files from the Time Capsule.
Am I onto the right idea, or is there another way around this? I'm just very worried that my backup has become corrupted for some reason and I've lost everything on there.
Specs are:
MacBook Pro Mid 2012 OS X 10.8.5;
Bootcamp 5 (Windows 7);

I'd agree. As long as you've gone this far, I'd probably start from scratch with your MBP, back up any critical files on it, wipe the whole thing, and do a nice clean reinstall.
I'd try to repair the backup drive with disk utilty and then see if you can restore the minimum of essential documents from it to the MBP. If Disk Utility can't fix it there is a small chance that a third party utility like diskwarrior or techtool could repair it. DiskWarrior 4 - The Disk Utility for Mac Disk Repair, Mac Directory Repair, Mac Disk Recovery, Mac Data Recovery or Techtool Pro 7
If you can get your essential documents off the backup drive, then I'd wipe it and put a new time machine backup on it. If that doesn't work, then I'd replace the drive.

Factory reset or restore from backup?

I tried removing a Windows partition the wrong way and I am unable to restore to a single partition. So I have the Macintosh HD and BOOTCAMP disks. The data on the BOOTCAMP disk was erased using Disk Utility. How do I restore to a single partition? Factory reset or restore from backup? My back up was from before I added the Windows partition but I have a gut feeling that's telling me this might not work.

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
It looks lke you erased the Boot Camp partition. To delete it, try opening Boot Camp Assistant. If it can't delete this partition:
1. Open Disk Utility and select the hard disk at the top of the sidebar.
2. Go to Partition tab, choose BOOTCAMP on the bar and press - button to remove the partition.
3. Press Macintosh HD at the bottom right corner, so you will be able to drag it to the bottom of the bar, and press Apply.
4. The Mac OS X partition will be using all the space of your hard drive and the Boot Camp volume will have been deleted

I just got a new iPhone 6 but when I did the restore from backup of my old iPhone 4; none of my pictures were there and almost all of my calendar was missing. Can anyone help?

Hi, I just bought an iPhone 6, 64GB and had everything ready to do the "restore from backup" from my old iPhone 4 8GB. It kept stopping and I'd have to start over from the beginning. When I finally got it to do something with the help of my provider(who had walked me thru from the beginning anyway); I figured I was all set. Then I went to see my pics to use one for my lock screen and there were NO PICTURES AT ALL and only part of my calendar came over. I'm missing a lot of future appointments that I know are set up. I made sure not to wipe out my old one yet; as I will have to since I did the trade in plan; so I still have my old iPhone 4 and it has everything in it, in addition to having the backup on two computers in the house.
I also tried syncing it after the restore since things were missing, but that didn't work either.
I would appreciate any help so I can use my phone and get going with it.
Thanks!

Did you choose the wrong back up? There should be a drop box when you go to "Restore from Back up" in iTunes and your iPhone is plugged in, on the Summary page. Choose the correct back up. If you can't find one, and you still have your device, back up your iPhone 4 again and then choose that back up. Or check for an old iCloud back up if you have one.

Hello. I have updated my iphone 4 to ios7 after doing a backup to itunes. I am caught in a loop of being asked to 'restore from backup' as part of setup and that restore failing because the phone already has it's content I believe. Please help if you can.

Hi. I have an iphone 4 that I have just installed ios7 onto. I had backed up the phone prior.
After the software install the phone rebooted and showed the 'Hello' setup. I am stuck because as part of the setup it asks me to 'restore from backup via itunes". I dont understand why i need to do this as I thought the ios7 install procedure would restore the phone with it's content.
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I am caught in a loop. My phone has it's content, but the startup procedure on the phone will not let me progress until I have restored from backup via itunes. But it cant because the phone has no space!!
The only other option it gives is 'Set up as new phone".
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You should be syncing your contacts with an app on your computer or cloud service (iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, etc), and not relying on a backup. If you haven't been doing this, start now and then restore your old backup. You will then be able to sync the new contacts back into the phone. However, you will lose all messages, etc newer thant the backup.

How can I restore my iPhone 4's iOS5 backup without restoring iOS if the option to "Restore from Backup" doesn't appear when I right click it in the device list?

(Lengthy question, I know Let me explain.)
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Here's an interesting bit: iTunes will let me restore my iPod touch from backup: it's still running iOS 4.3.3. I figured as much... there's backups showing in the Preferences -> Devices list for both devices (and even my old, long gone iPod touch 2G), but my iPhone (on iOS5) isn't giving me any such option. I remember I had to downgrade before to get the backup restored (something went haywire in the setup assistant, and I couldn't restore a backup from iTunes there)... If it was possible to go to iOS 5.0 rather than 5.0.1 I would just do the same thing again, but iOS 5.0.1 isn't an option. I attached a screenshot. Hopefully Apple can get this nonsense sorted out; I think iOS 5 might be the root of this, somehow.

My iPhone's "Other" capacity has suddenly jumped to 56G out of 64G. Yes, you read that right. Every time I try to sync to recalculate, it gets worse! Please help! Can't even restore from backup now, since my backup is all "other"!

I have fully up-to-date everything on my iPhone and computer and iTunes. I have an iPhone5 and MacBook Pro. I synced my iPhone this morning and it has 12 or so gigs of free space (even with my music and some photos on it). Then I deleted some voice memos in iTunes, and wanted to sync again to reclaim the space. When I tried, it said I had 29G of "other" data and that my phone was way over capacity and can't sync. I tried a few online solutions to force it to recalculate, but now it says it is about 90% "other"!! Only 8G of 64G free, and "other" is the ONLY thing in the summary bar.
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I cannot restore from backup now, since the backup includes the giant "other". I don't want to delete my info on my phone knowing a corrupted backup is my only alternative.
Help!

Thanks so much Meg. Unfortunately, iTunes is the program I use to perform syncing. I don't really have other outside options. It is also the location of the backup I would use to restore my phone, and my only way to reclaim important data. I am concerned that, since the last backup occurred when the "other" bar was only moderately huge (around 29G I think), that a backup would replicate the problem back onto my phone.
My contacts, etc. are all in address book and the calendar app on my Mac. As far as I know, iTunes is the way to get them back, but iTunes is where the problem is.
Any thoughts on this?

Hi i have a question, I'm trying to back up my iPhone to iTunes but it says restore from backup or setup up as new device. if i setup as new device will everything be deleted? if yes then how would i back it up without anything being deleted

Hi i have a question, I'm trying to back up my iPhone to iTunes but it says restore from backup or setup up as new device. if i setup as new device will everything be deleted? if yes then how would i back it up without anything being deleted

Following is a link to instructions on how to backup (either via iTunes and via iCloud) http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

Itune forces to setup as new ipad or restore from backup?!

I have 3 ipads and 2 iphones in my house sharing the same apple ID, but when I tried to connect one of the ipads to itune on my PC, it only gives option to set up as new phone or restore from backup, either option would wipe out the data I already have on the ipad. All other devices can connect to itune without problems. Found another thread with the same problem, but the solution of logging on windows with different user does not solve my problem. Can anyone help? Itune has to be the worst and dumbest product from apple!

I too have this very frustrating issue. It worked fine 2 weeks ago.
I have two devices setup, and they have the same name, but that has never been a problem as one is a 5G 80GB iPod, and the other is an iPhone 3GS.
Now, everytime I plug my iPhone into my PC, iTunes comes up and asks me to restore.
Grrr... I have restored 3 times. I have also performed a complete iPhone reset and a restore... same thing, and I have no idea why.
Please help.
Thanks,
S.

Restore from backup or setup as new?

If I am having software problems should I restore and setup as new?
I really wanna save my camera roll etc, can I just restore from backup?

You can.
Software problem -factory restore- 100% fix
Software problem -restore from back up 30% fix
you can also save your camera roll before restore, that is what I would do.

Hi, I upgraded my girlfriend's iPad 2 using my iMac, however, her iPad was sync with her PC. Although I've made backup earlier, when I restore from backup the apps doesn't sync back, neither her documents on pages. How can I put then back to her iPad?

Hi, I upgraded my girlfriend's iPad 2 using my iMac, however, her iPad was sync with her PC. Although I've made backup earlier, when I restore from backup the apps doesn't sync back, neither her documents on pages. How can I put then back to her iPad?

The backup saves many settings, but it copies photos and other files from the computer back to the iPad after IOS5 wipes the disk. Plugging it into her computer will re-sync it.

I updated the software of my iPhone 4s, but now iTunes says my computer is synced with another device, even after I click "restore from backup."

I've selected the "restore from backup" button numerous times, but iTunes continues to give me the message, "This computer has previously been synced with another device." It then gives me the option to set up as a new phone or restore from backup. I want to put my music and apps back onto my phone! How can I get my computer to recognize my phone again?

I found this article some time ago when I was trying to help someone else in this same situation. This is a copy and paste from the website. The website is provided below for you to read before you try this.
Plug your phone into iTunes
Click setup as a new device
Immediately unplug your phone from the computer
Give it about 30 seconds and iTunes will give a message (I don’t remember the specific, but regarding you unplugging the device and it not completing)
Plug your phone back in
Viola! no restore occurred and you can access everything again
This computer has previously synced with an iPhone or another iOS device.

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Settings/Reset/Erase all content and settings...
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Ipod Touch does not want to turn on after I Restored from Backup to recover notes

I was trying to restore a note in the notes app and followed these instructions
If you synced your notes from iPhone while these notes were still on it and you haven't synced again since they were deleted, you may be able to recover them by restoring your phone to your last backup (the backup includes notes). This will revert your settings and data to those contained in the backup (not just notes) so be sure to save any more recent data prior to restoring). To do this:
1. Without connecting your phone, open iTunes on your computer and go to Preferences, on the Devices tab check "Prevent...from syncing automatically".
2. Connect your phone to your computer, right-click on the name of your phone when it appears in iTunes on the left sidebar and select Restore from Backup, choose your most recent backup to restore from.
3. When this finishes you can go back to iTunes>Prerferences>Devi ces and re-enable automatic syncing.
That you may recover the notes.
When I try to turn on my ipod after that it wont turn on and turns itself back off. I did try connecting it so it can recharge then turning it on but it wont turn on. I dont wnat to restore and I want to find another solution or way to resolve this problem. When i plug it into the recharger iit wont connect to itunes or turn on. Please help? Thank you.

I finally clicked and held the power and home button and connected to itunes and now am in iPod recovery mode. Thank you.

I cannot see my iPhone backup when I click on "restore from backup"

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Can anyone help with this? Is there a way to tell iTunes that the backup exists and to point it there? (sorry, I'm a Windows user only)
Also, another issue while I'm here and may be related (not sure). I'm unable to synch my phone with iTunes as it says it's already synched with another computer (which it was but it died a horrible death and has since left this world). So currently the only way I can update music, ringtones etc is through a 3rd party free app called Copy TransManager. Anyone know a way out of that problem?
This Kiwi would appreciated any wisdom, assistance, help you can offer on these two points. In order of priority ... I can manage with the non-sync weirdness as I've found a work around .... getting my backup to work so I can get my texts is of upmost importance to me. Thank you.

Hello, JG257.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If you are unable to import photos from your device, try the troubleshooting steps in the article below.
iOS: Unable to import photos to computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3195
Cheers,
Jason H.

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