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May 28, 2007
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Jersey, C.I.
hey would making a disk image with disk utility of the bootcamp drive work as a back up? could i then just restore the partition when needed? also would this work if the bootcamp partition is formatted as ntfs?
 
Not hard to backup, any window backup program will do it - Mac backup programs won't.

Used Bootcamp and VMWare Fusion on old computer.
Tried the firewire transfer offered during OS X setup from old to new MB -
Bootcamp drive was a NO GO.

Problem is restoring it.:mad: - Apple Tech - said you will have to reinstall bootcamp & windows - before even thinking of using an image, or backup restore software.

Much easier with VMWare Fusion:D
Used SuperDuper! to backup old MB to external backup drive. Then, from external drive to MBP also with SuperDuper!. At first didn't work. but after fixing permission with OS X Disk Utility, everything worked perfectly.
I have stopped using Bootcamp.
 
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