![]() I figured the worst that would happen is that it wouldn’t work or the restored Windows environment would be buggy/unstable and I’d just start from scratch anyway. So I had nothing to lose and everything to gain by giving it a shot. When I knew that my New MacBook Pro was on the way, I fired up Winclone on my old Mac and cloned my Windows XP Boot Camp partition to an external Firewire drive. I used the Compressed option, which took my 60GB partition down to about 23GB (keeping in mind that there was only about 30-35GB’s used on the Windows partition). It creates a single Image file of your Windows drive. You can even mount the image as long as you don’t use the Compressed option.Īccording to the Winclone webpage one of the bullet items said: “Create a Bootcamp partition from within Winclone.” So I took that to mean that all I would have to do is fire up Winclone on my new Mac and it would not only do the restore, but also create the new Boot Camp partition. ![]() I looked everywhere in the app for the option to create a Boot Camp partition and it’s just not there. Since I was in no hurry to do this, I decided to send the guy an email asking about this and his response (very timely I might add) was that it was easiest to just use the Boot Camp Assistant (that comes with the Mac) to create the Windows partition and then quit the Boot Camp Assistant app and run the Winclone restore. It seemed simple enough and it worked perfectly. I fired up the Boot Camp Assistant and followed the prompts to create a new Boot Camp Partition. After about 5-10 minutes it was done and I just quit the app. So now I had an empty Windows partition ready to go. Next I plugged in my external Firewire drive containing my Winclone backup image and then I fired up Winclone on my new Mac. I ran the restore of the Windows XP image and figured it would take a while so I went out and ran an errand. When I returned the restore was complete (I was gone for less than an hour, but I didn’t time the restore from start to finish). ![]() Fingers crossed, I rebooted my MacBook Pro, holding down the Option Key and there it was. Windows had to do some drive checking/repairing and I just let it do its thing. Once that was done, I saw my familiar Windows XP desktop. I was also being prompted to reactivate Windows (more on that in a minute). ![]() Clone the Old Windows OS to the newly created BOOTCAMP Windows partition.Į. Fix the new copy of the Windows Partition so that it boots properly. Winclone Support Document: Move Boot Camp to a replacement drive Winclone Support Document: Migrating a Bootcamp Partition with Winclone Use WinClone which is an Apple and Bootcamp aware disk cloning utility PAID SOLUTIONS (If you know of others please comment with a link):ġ. This will cost you at least $20 USD and will not really make the process much easier. NOTE: If you do go the paid software route there are still concepts and hardware procedural assistance available in this article so please read on.Īn alternative approach to achieving a similar outcome to BootCamp but without all the later issues of BootCamp's dual-disk partition configuration method can be found here: Which I have now had the pleasure of using and it is SO EASY and RECOMMENDED! It just helps with the Process D as listed above.Ī) I found a new reasonably priced tool (~$20USD) from Paragon called CampTune that allows only for the resizing of the MacOS and Bootcamp Windows partitions. Unfortunately, this option is a complex alternative approach and only really available to experienced technically capable IT people. Please only choose to take that alternative path at your own peril. PLEASE NOTE: This documentation has been created with images from several episodes of this process and therefore inconsistencies in images exist that may potentially confuse readers. I do apologise for these inconsistencies however, this process is complex and stateful i.e.
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