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shttngdcknps

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Mar 29, 2010
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My harddrive is failing and im currently backing up my OSX partition on to an external drive using time machine, but i know that time machine wont copy my WIN7 partition. So how do i copy my windows to my external drive, not to seem like a jerk but time is of the essence, and i dont know how much time i have left so please if ou know how tell me!!!
thank you
 

alust2013

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Feb 6, 2010
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Download a program called winclone. Use that to make an image of your bootcamp partition, then back up with time machine. When you put stuff on your new HDD, go through boot camp assistant again and partition it, but don't install windows again. Just go back into winclone, click restore tab, and restore the image you made to your boot camp partition.
 
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