The Bootcamp windows partition

Does time machine back up the windows HD partition as well as the leopard partition? Any experience out there? Thanks
Richard
apologies if asked/answered---went through lots of pages---did not see

Here's what's bizzare. On my machine, I can select the windows partition for backup, and TM makes like its going to, but then doesn't. This should get spelled out more clearly, or I shouldn't be able to select it (preferably with some kind of error message). Just lost my windows side yesterday, and guess what? - no back up.

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    Well, here is what happened...
    Somehow in making a Windows partition then removing the partition so many times I created an error where it only showed 1/2 of my hard drive...like it was starting to create the second half for the windows side and ran into an error.
    So this turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because what I had to do was go to "Command + R" when I was starting up and format the entire drive, all 500 gb.  This formatted the whole drive and must've erased whatever was causing the trouble.
    Of course, then I had to reinstall OS X, and reinstall my Time Machine backup, but then I opened bootcamp and created the Windows partition again.  This time, when I ran the EFI installer you were referring to on the far right (which I had tried before), it allowed me to click next and continue once I selected the Windows partition.  Thank God!  It must've fixed whatever file system error was hanging it up there every time....because it's installing now.
    What I would suggest if all else fails, just format the whole dang thing.  Then try from square one and see if you can install

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    i just installed yosemite on my mcb pro mid 2012 with a clean install. so i only had the new os x yosemite running on my mac. everything went perfect. than i installed win8.1 with the bootcamp assistant and also everything went perfect.
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    greez c

    "Before i installed yosemite and win8.1, i was running mavericks and win7 on my macbook pro and i haven't had this Problem. i was able to see and read my mac Partition also on Windows 8.1???"
    Sorry there's a mistake in the sentence!
    i mean:
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  • New Hard Drive, Mac partition cloned and boots fine, but I can't seem to get my BOOTCAMP (windows) partition to boot!  Any ideas?

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    I got it. It CAN be done. At least on 10.6
    How I made it happen (for free) on Snow Leopard:
    1) partition, dupe etc all that jazz that you know. Make the mac side work, which it seems we've all been able to do no issues. I used SuperDuper! It worked just fine. (Had it on a disk. I assume you could use any other free way of doing this.)
    2) New hard drive running, I used bootcamp assistant to partition the new drive for a new Bootcamp. I don't know if it's necessary to make the new partition this way for some reason, but it's what the process ultimately included, so maybe try without, but it worked with.
    3) Natively running original drive on the windows side. Used DirveImage XML to clone windows partition onto new drive connected externally.
    4) Back on new hard drive running natively. (Sorry for all the switching.) You'll note that the new Bootcamp partition is NOT bootable at this point. It won't come up in the usual 'alt on startup' boot menu.
    Download rEFInd and install on mac side. Technically this is freeware or w/e, but for the love of god, throw money at this man. He totally deserves it.
    5) Restarting the computer, rEFInd's boot manager finally recognizes windows. But you'll find windows is a little messed up and still won't quite boot. Get out your Windows CD and pop it in. Do the 'alt boot' thing. Your boot menu options are now "EFI Manager," "Bootcamp," and "Windows Disk." Or some such. Holy Crap! It recognizes Windows!
    6) Boot to the CD and tell it to repair the windows volume. It will. My computer also had to do a disk check next time I booted to Windows, which took for-stupid-ever, but eventually worked. (I went to bed in between.)
    7) Everything is running smoothly. Plus, you get the rEFInd boot manager, which is also great.
    Deets: I have a late 2010 MBP 13". Snow leopard/Windows 7 32-bit (long story) Moved from original 320GB seagate momentus to new 750GB Seagate Momentus XT.
    Feel free to share/copy&paste this solution as you see useful. Cheers!

  • Disk utility resize mac partition resulted in 'no bootable disk' while starting from bootcamp windows partition

    my macbook air had two partitions for Mac OS and Windows XP. Because XP partition is too small, I used disk utitility in Mac OS to shrink the Mac partition, and make a new FAT32 partition, which I expected to use it in windows. Till now, I can find three partitions in disk utitily, MacOS/FAT32(which is totally free)/Bootcamp(windows). And in system preference->boot disk, I can see both Mac OS X and Bootcamp Windows.
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    Hi Stefan!
    I have a rather similar problem having a BootCamp Windows 8 Partition. I actually have 2 NTFS partitions for windows and 1 for Mac OS. The situation is:
    0 - for Mac OS
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    2 - Windows (NTFS) - 100GB
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      In Windows:
    0 - Mac OS
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    WHY didn't I get a warning that the Boot Table will get altered?!
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  • Mac dies on boot, every time - but bootcamp Windows partition still runs

    Hi there,
    I hope someone can give a bit of advice.
    I have a 17" Intel iMac, Core 2 Duo, the old white style, running OSX 10.4 Tiger.
    When I got it I set up a smallish partition (80GB, the hard drive is 500GB) using the Bootcamp beta and installed Vista Home Premium on the partition. I went along for a while happily switching between the two. However, I am now completely incapable of booting into OSX.
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    I've tried launching in single user mode, but the same thing happens.
    I've tried running Disk Warrior, but can't.
    I've tried Cmd/Opt/Shift/Del to force it to run from the CD, but it just turns off.
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    Is there anything else I can do to make this thing run Disk Utility? I don't want to pay repair costs if I can somehow avoid it.
    Thank you very much.

    But there can't be much wrong with the HD if the Windows partition runs fine.
    Sort of, sort of not, depending how you look at things... one bit going astray in the wrong place can cause anything to happen.
    Does it boot into Open Firmware with CMDOption+of ?
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42642
    reset-nvram (press Enter)
    set-defaults (press Enter)
    reset-all (press Enter)
    Have you done a PRAM reset...
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
    Intel-based iMac, Intel-based Mac mini: How to reset the System Management Controller ...
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1543
    Startup key combinations for Intel-based Macs...
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1533

  • Is there a way to save the complete windows partition before upgrading the hard disk?

    Hello all,
    I am planning on installing a new hard drive in my MacBookPro, 2.4 ghz, model 3,1, Intel c2d, but before I do, I am concerned about how to save the contents of my Windows partition as I can not afford to lose the data I have on that part of the computer.  I regularily back up my Mac's contents to a Western Digital MyBook 2.0 500GB drive, but as far as I can tell, this only backs up the Mac content on my computer and doesn't touch the windows partition.   I also do not have the discs that came with my MacBookPro any longer thanks to a storage unit thief, so I am unsure of how to restore my Mac data onto the new drive from time machine without the discs.  Any help with either of these issues is greatly appreciated!
    Thanks!

    Who says you'll only use it once? Hard drives do fail and they fail at any time. Even SSDs fail.
    You can buy Parallels or VMware Fusion and make a Virtual Machine of your current boot camp Windows install then not worry about that Windows partition.
    The reason I don't have a Windows partition is many years ago I dual booted Windows versions and Linux and hated it. Always needing to go back to one of the other OSs then back to the other. With VM software that is a thing of the past.
    If you use Windows for 40-70% of your computing I suggest you invest in a Windows PC and Use the Mac for what it was made for, OS X programs.
    If your Windows computing is limited to office and the like programs then a VM may work just fine for you. It doesn't for me as I run heavy CAD programs and Photoshop on my PCs. But the VM on my Mac works for what I may need Windows for on a Mac.

  • How Do I Remove Bootcamp and The Entire Windows Partition?

    I have Windows running on my iMac with a partition. I want to remove it in its entirety to take the machine back to a 100% mac platform. Any thoughts?

    brit66 wrote:
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    Easily done!
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  • Bootcamp Windows partition disk space

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  • Using CampTune application to Resize the Bootcamp partition

    Hello,
    I neet to increase the size of my Windows partion on the HDD created with Bootcamp. Asked in a previous Question.
    Some respondents have advised that this can only be done by doing a complete Windows uninstall and then recreating an new Bootcamp partion of the desired size. They have advised that to do anything else invites damage to the HDD.
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    Hi,
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  • Can't install windows it says the boot camp partition is not formatted as a NTFS file structure

    Using boot camp assistant it gets to the point of installing windows 7 and it won't because the boot camp partition is not a NTFS file structure. It also seems strange to me that there are 5 partitions would have expect ether 2 or 3. Please help this is very frustrating.
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  • Upgrading MacBook Pro Hard Drive - cannot get Windows partition to work

    Hello,
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    Hmm, that's a good question!
    I headed over to the twocanoes website (the folks that make Winclone) and their guide mentions something about running Sysprep before you create the Windows image. If you skipped that step, that may be why you're having issues
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    Step 24 in that guide also mentions copying a Boot file - were you able to/did you do that?
    You may have better luck over in the Bootcamp forum, which is here.
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