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Hard Drive Upgrade (ntfs?)
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l008com
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Oct 9, 2009, 11:14 PM
 
I'm putting a new hard drive in my MacBook Pro tonight. Migrating the Mac side is a piece of cake. I can just restore from my time machine backup. Or I can connect it with a firewire cable and use Disk Utility to restore. Or there are a few other ways to do it to, but the point is, it's easy. But what about the windows partition? Can I image it with Disk Utility too? Once I restore, will it just boot right up just like it would before? I have practically no windows experience so I have no idea how to do this.
     
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Oct 9, 2009, 11:21 PM
 
Very easy. Use winclone. Winclone
     
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Oct 9, 2009, 11:23 PM
 
Nice!
     
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Oct 11, 2009, 12:04 AM
 
Oh by the way, this app doesn't work and I just lost my windows partition.
     
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Oct 11, 2009, 01:37 AM
 
Originally Posted by l008com View Post
Oh by the way, this app doesn't work and I just lost my windows partition.
Worked for me.
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Oct 11, 2009, 01:52 AM
 
Correction. It gave me errors as if it was going to fail. Then quietly proceeded to run anyway. But now I have another issue. So it was an NTFS volume. I backed it up. But disk utility could only make a FAT volume for me to restore on to. How do I make an NTFS volume to restore on to?
     
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Oct 11, 2009, 03:25 AM
 
With Windows or the Windows installer.

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