![]() ![]() Time Machine Snapshots With Boot Camp Installation When you install Windows on a Mac that includes a Fusion Drive, the Windows partition is created on the mechanical hard drive part of the Fusion Drive, and not the SSD. Boot Camp will take your startup disk and create a partition that's compatible with Windows. The software itself is part of macOS, so installing Windows on Macs using the legacy HFS+ file system is smoother than those using the Apple File System and Time Machine or FileVault. In other words, Boot Camp allows you to run Windows without the compromise of using just one processor or only a limited amount of RAM, the sorts of restrictions that would be imposed by virtual machines as they balance the various resources to optimize the running of two operating systems side by side. What sets the Windows experience apart from any virtualization software is that users can take full advantage of their hardware in every possible way, the Retina display included, so long as you agree to allocate at least 40GB of space on the startup disk for this operating system. Apple's multi-boot utility – which has been included with the Mac operating system since OS X 10.5 Leopard – guides users through installing Windows on Intel-based Macs, and it's actually pretty easy to get started if all the necessary components are in place. There is another way to take the Windows experience to the next level: run it on a Mac using Boot Camp. Requires at least 40GB of allocated space.My Mac partition is safely backed up and I only use Windows occasionally for a Windows-only app, so it's just a matter of re-installing Windows from scratch and that app. I won't be using the external drive for anything else than a backup to restore from. Well, I don't mind as long as I can clone the drive (both partitions) back to the Mac as it was before, and I can carry on booting into OSX or Bootcamp as I like. You mentioned that it won't be possible to boot Windows software from an external drive. Doynton: is this what you meant when talking about free solutions such as DD or Macrium repair disk? In hindsight I should probably have partitioned the backup drive so that I'd have both a Mac and a Windows (Bootcamp) partition which I'm guessing should have made cloning the Bootcamp partition easier as well. I'm sure I'll find out when I get the computer back. ![]() I assume to restore it I need to first have an empty Windows partition available on the Mac hard drive. Anyway I cloned the Mac drive first using Chronosync (which I use for all my backup needs), then ran the above which I understand creates a disk image file of the Windows partition. I was also hoping for a free solution (my Mac is due for repairs and I'd like to make it easy to reinstall everything as it was when I get it back), so I ended up download Paragon Boot Camp Backup which macupdate said was free (turns out "free" meant a 10 day trial version). I was hoping I'd find something which would just clone the entire drive (both partitions) in one go. So the Bootcamp cloning process involve creating a separate NTFS partition on the backup drive first, then running the cloning software (which, unlike most regular Mac software can read/write the NTFS format)? Or if your Mac will boot from USB then this is by far the easiest way You could have a look at these to explain dd and Macrium. There is no point paying for software to do such a trivial (OS agnostic) task. I don't know why MacOS people like recommending WinClone, CCC and Paragon. None are that fast mind you but they are free and you end up with an exact copy of your disk that is bootable in both OS. I therefore use either OSX or Linux normally. Older ones (like my 2006 MBP) will not boot Windows software from external USB without a boot loader. Your only consideration is what external device your Mac will boot from. ![]() I've used both methods and both work fine on all my Macs (and PCs). Just make sure your destination disk is as big or bigger as your internal one. None care about the data on the drive be it Windows or OSX or Linux and copy your partitions and partition table just fine. Or boot from Macrium repair disk (free Windows software) and clone it. There are dozens of applications you can run to do this or you can even buy hardware to do it.īoot from external drive and run one. You want to clone your disk not image it. ![]()
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