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Winclone & Bootcamp question - please help

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jon08

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I'm about to sell my old MBP and move to my new MBP. Before selling the old one, I'll wipe the old HDD - including the Bootcamp partition.

Now I have a bunch of dictionaries on the Bootcamp partition that won't work on OS X and no longer have the install CDs for them (don't worry - they were installed from original CDs and no longer require the latter once installed). I would obviously NOT like to lose this Bootcamp partition specifically because of these dictionaries.

My question is: is it possible to make a cloned bootable Bootcamp partition on my external HDD with Winclone? (the external HDD I'm using is already formatted to NTFS, by the way)

So my idea is once I wiped my old MBP HDD and cloned the Bootcamp partition onto my external HDD, I could boot into the cloned Bootcamp partition on the external HDD.

Does Winclone offer this option?
 
johnhurley

johnhurley

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jon08 said:
I'm about to sell my old MBP and move to my new MBP. Before selling the old one, I'll wipe the old HDD - including the Bootcamp partition.

Now I have a bunch of dictionaries on the Bootcamp partition that won't work on OS X and no longer have the install CDs for them (don't worry - they were installed from original CDs and no longer require the latter once installed). I would obviously NOT like to lose this Bootcamp partition specifically because of these dictionaries.

My question is: is it possible to make a cloned bootable Bootcamp partition on my external HDD with Winclone? (the external HDD I'm using is already formatted to NTFS, by the way)

So my idea is once I wiped my old MBP HDD and cloned the Bootcamp partition onto my external HDD, I could boot into the cloned Bootcamp partition on the external HDD.

Does Winclone offer this option?
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Sorry no relevant information on winclone.

If I were you I would keep the current drive and put in a replacement hard drive ( reinstall os on the replacement ) and also get an external drive caddy of some kind ( thermaltake etc ).

I would also backup current drive windows partition by something like Norton Ghost and/or windows system imaging utility ( if you are on win 7 ). I think disk utility in mac os x can also make a copy ( disk image ) but think there are some issues with getting that bootable. Acronis also has windows imaging software but no experience on that recent Norton Ghost works pretty well.
 
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