Drag the partition slider to the size you'd like for a Windows partition and click Partition.Select "I already have a Macintosh Drivers CD" and click Continue. When the process completes, click the Restart button and reboot your Macintosh. If you have an existing Boot Camp partition, run the Boot Camp Assistant and select the option to restore your disk to a single Mac OS X volume.Phase I: Correctly create the Boot Camp partition and master boot record (2 minutes) Note that when this procedure is complete, the Windows partition will be completely defragmented with a single contiguous area of free space. Instead of booting to Mac OS X, you use the image utility's bootable CD-ROM, and rather than restoring the image, you select the "restore files" option to copy the individual files from the image rather than restoring the sectors to the partition (which ruins the boot records that the Boot Camp Assistant sets up to correctly chain load Windows on a Macintosh).
This technique also works with Windows-based imaging that can recover individual files from an image such as Norton Ghost 10, Symantec Live State Recovery, or Acronis true image. Making this type of backup is as simple as creating a destination folder and copying all the files from a mounted Boot Camp partition into the folder from within Mac OS X (this will not work from within Windows, as numerous system files are locked during use and can't be copied). Use this technique when you're backing up to a FAT32 formatted removable media device such as an external USB or Firewire hard drive. You can find details of how to create an image from a partition in the Disk Utility program help file.Ī file-based backup is the copying of all files in the Boot Camp partition to a folder on your Mac OS X hard disk.
Use this technique for backups when you're storing the image to a volume formatted with the Mac file system, because it's fastest. You can use this method to resize a Boot Camp partition, to change the format from NTFS to FAT32, or to move a Boot Camp partition from one computer to another.Īn image-based backup is a backup created with the Disk Utility program. Using this method, you can restore any type of existing complete backup of a Windows Boot Camp partition.
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