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Disk Image through Windows?
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Is there a way to use, say, Acronis through Boot Camp for making an image of the entire disk in my iMac? Or, since there are restrictions on accessibility of the Mac partitions, will it only backup Boot Camp? And if that's so, is there a good, possibly free, alternative through OS X that will image the entire machine?
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Are you talking about Mac disk images or Windows disk images? On the Mac you've got Disk Utility (free) or Toast (not as free) to choose from - those are the major options. On Windows you've got whatever built-in backup app M$ provides or third party ISO utilities.
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I'd say use either Time Machine or SuperDuper to backup your Mac partition and use Winclone (a Mac program) to backup your Boot Camp partition.
Winclone is free.
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So essentially, if my HDD fails, then I'd have to reinstall OS X on a new drive, load a disk image, re-partition and install Windows via Boot Camp, re-install the imaging software, and then reload the Windows image to get my machine where it was... I know of this option. But I know Acronis allows you to back up an entire volume regardless of how many partitions are on it and also regardless of whether or not they're all the same type or not. Except of course for the way Mac writes their partitions... Basically, I want to:
1: Install new HDD
2: Install OS X
3: Load volume image. Not just OS X, but the Boot Camp bit of the volume too
4: Imbibe
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No, you wouldn't have to reinstall Windows. After you get OS X up, create a Boot Camp partition of the same size that yours was, and choose not to install Windows. After the BC Assistant finishes, you can restore from Winclone.
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Hmmm... That's pretty good, only one step more than what I know is technically possible. Sucks I have to re-partition, but that's the shortest step of the whole process anyway. Thanks
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Originally Posted by BreadRecipe 
Hmmm... That's pretty good, only one step more than what I know is technically possible. Sucks I have to re-partition, but that's the shortest step of the whole process anyway. Thanks
I use a combination of WinClone for BootCamp and SuperDuper for Mac. My BC partition is backed up every Sunday to my main Mac HDD, then that is cloned to an external firewire HDD. If I needed to restore, I clone the external back onto the internal and I'm back in business in less than 2 hours and with no heartache.
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I think I know what you're trying to do. I've never used Acronis, but a friend has preached it's wonders to me, and I know a little about it. Acronis makes it's own backup with a sector by sector copy as a .tib file. I'm pretty sure you will need their bootable utility, burn that to a disc, boot from it (holding "C"), then do your stuff. Thing is, the disc might not support the mac architecture and won't boot or will run into other problems. Worth a try I guess.
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