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skallal

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Aug 24, 2012
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It's been a couple days now since I finally installed Windows 8.1 Pro on Boot Camp. And it's been quite a pleasure to see how Windows performs if it fully owns the Mac. In my case that is with 16 GB RAM, I7 4 cores, and an SSD.

However I miss Time Machine. I have been using Macrium Reflect Free edition to make images of several different drives on different machines. I have yet to try restoring any of these images. So far I've mounted the images as archives, which is useful when reinstalling Windows and rebuilding a machine.

I wish to archive my Boot Camp partition and then restore it as a test. I have already done the archive part. But I now wish to attempt a restore. Since it is restoring a system partition, it will require Windows PE to do a restore. Can anyone on the forum verify this is possible and reliable on Boot Camp under Mavericks?

If this is possible, it will allow me to do some experimentation. One experiment is to get my Boot Camp partition working within Parallels Desktop without having to use separate licenses on each. I've read where that is possible, but sometimes not. In case it doesn't work, then the Macrium restore is essential.
 
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