![]() ![]() Install Boot Camp drivers on newly restored Windows operating system Download Boot Camp Drivers in Boot Camp AssistantĦ. Restore Winclone image to new Boot Camp partitionĥ. Create Boot Camp partition on new hardwareĤ. Create Winclone image of Boot Camp partitionģ. USB flash drive - Windows device drivers will be downloaded fom Apple and stored on an external drive (which can also be burned to CD/DVD) and stored on a DOS FAT32-formatted external drive with at least 1GB of available space.Ģ. It also removes license keys for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, so the valid license keys will be required when setting up Windows after the migration. Sysprep removes device drivers (called "generalizing") in order to reuse a Windows operating system on other computers. Sysprep - The migration process uses a utility built into the Windows operating system called Sysprep. This tutorial explains how to migrate the Boot Camp partition to different hardware without crashing or necessitating a full reinstall of Windows. Windows requires device drivers that are appropriate to the host machine, particularly display drivers, or it will crash (blue screen of death) the first time it starts up on on new hardware. But what about moving Boot Camp to different Mac hardware? And what about upgrading the hard drive on the same Mac? That can also be done in a relatively simple process, but there are crucial preparatory steps that must be taken to ensure that Windows will boot properly. You can try to restore Winclone images between different types of Macs (for example, a Mac Pro to a Mac Mini), but be aware that if Windows boots but does not reach the desktop, it is probably not an issue with Winclone, but rather the change in processor type.Using Winclone to create and restore an image of the Boot Camp partition is a relatively simple operation when using the same Mac hardware. If you are migrating between Macs that are the same type (MacBook Air to MacBook Air, for example), you will have the greatest chance of success. ![]() However, if the processor (for example, Core Duo or i7) is a different type, the restored version of Windows may not be supported or be able to run on the new Mac. Winclone allows you to migrate your Bootcamp partition from one Mac to another Mac and make sure Windows will boot. When I would restore a Windows Backup to my HD, it would corrupt my MacOS boot partition, so I would then have to restore the Mac partition as well. It worked to backup and restore my Windows partition, but I noticed a "bad" side effect. I tried the native Windows backup utility. This will ensure that you have an *exact* copy of the parition/disk. However, I would recommend (at least for the first backup) that you boot from the HDM recovery CD to do an offline backup. When you run CCC or SD! in OS X, you're running an online backup. ![]() In an online backup, the backup utility is running against a partition that may be making changes to itself. Paragon HDM 2011 can do either offline or online backups, the difference is that with an offline backup, the entire partition (or disk) is unallocated. I have restored from DU, CCC, SuperDuper and TM, they all worked, TM was slower but not a lot, you can boot from the others, which I prefer. I have also used Casper, Clonezilla and Paragon but less regularly, Casper failed a few times, I stopped using it, Clonezilla worked but took forever (for me) Paragon (which I have only used twice) was the best but my sample is limited. Windows 7 system backup and restore - Apple's goofy HFS read-only interferes with system and file backup. Paragon Hard Drive Suite 2011 because it works great and they have CampTune Some previous forum comments I have collected regarding backup of BootCamp.Īcronis 2011 w/ plus pak, didn't work well previouslyĬasper 6 works for Windows on Boot Camp onlyĬop圜atX is more lengthy and sector copy so takes the longest. ![]()
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