RESTORE WINCLONE WITH NO MBR HOW TO
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When trying to do this that is when I get the partition table error. I would never have had to reinstall windows on a new partition using bootcamp if win clone had worked and let me put the clone back onto a new partition.

I Never had this problem the first time I used bootcamp I'm sure.

RESTORE WINCLONE WITH NO MBR INSTALL

It has run setup but has got stuck as it will not install windows onto the bootcamp partition and comes up with an error message saying that the partition must be formatted ntfs.

RESTORE WINCLONE WITH NO MBR UPDATE

The latest update in my situation is that I have used bootcamp assistant to create a bootable USB drive of windows. I am trying to do what you suggested- put the win clone image onto a new partition, but it won't let me and after installing (and subsequently uninstalling) the paragon driver, when I hold down option key on boot it only displays the osx drive and not the bootcamp partition drive so I have no option to boot in another drive or install an operating system on it. I wasn't trying to use win clone to resize anything. I then rebooted to an unchanged W7 running at incredible speeds on the SSD.Rschiel I'm not sure you understand my problem. When I did a conversion from my system disk on a hard drive to one on an SSD, it took about 15 minutes to create the backup image on another drive and less than 10 minutes to load it on the SSD. ShadowProtect will precisely reproduce the Bootcamp drive, but with the partition boot information tailored to your new OS by Windows. I guess this is the reason it's so hard to repartition a Bootcamp disk, since the partition map has to be understood both by OS-X and by Windows.Ĥ) Now use ShadowProtect to restore the system drive image using the default parameters which don't touch the MBR, hidden tracks or disk signatures unless you have special requirements-in which case you should research these on the StorageCraft site.

This destroys the empty FAT32 shell created by OS-X and leaves a partition map and MBR that can be used by Windows.

RESTORE WINCLONE WITH NO MBR HOW TO

Since I couldn't find anything on the internet laying out the details of doing a bare metal restore with ShadowProtect in the Bootcamp environment, I thought it would be useful to document how to accomplish such a restore.ġ) Within Windows do a backup using ShadowProtect to create an image file.Ģ) When the time comes to do a 'bare metal restore', from within OS-X use bootcamp assistant to format for windows and exit reboot from the ShadowProtect W7 boot disk.ģ) Use Windows disk manager to reformat the windows partition-not the drive-into NTFS, and set the partition active. While rather expensive (~$100/yr), this utility is the best Windows backup program I have seen-Microsoft Gold & integrated with VM ware. Within the Windows environment, there is one 'enterprise' level utility that meets all the need of those using multiple operating systems, including virtual machines, and that utility is called ShadowProtect, produced by StorageCraft ( )-I don't have any connection to this company, by the way, I just researched like crazy to find a backup utility for my Bootcamp machine. This post may not be relevant for those primarily working in a Mac environment for which Windows requires only an occasional visit but for those, such as myself, who only bought a MacPro for hardware and almost exclusively use Windows, a 'primitive' backup and bare metal restore utility such as Winclone doesn't measure up. Maybe too long, but it solves your problem

Restore winclone with no mbr