Good Afternoon!
I am having a problem. I have a 2008 imac that was partitioned for Lion and Windows 7. My hard drive started to fail (read/write errors, slow access times, etc.) and is out of warranty so I replaced it with a new one. That went well but my problem is this:
I originally started with Windows XP and upgraded to Windows 7 via the Anytime upgrade. Now that Lion is installed, it will not allow me to install XP on my new bootcamp partition, and I cannot do a fresh install of WIndows 7 since it is an anytime upgrade disk. My question is this:
If I take my old hard drive (I assume the bootcamp partition is still good as all my problems happened on the mac side) and put it in an enclosure, can I boot into windows from there and clone the drive onto a new partition I make on my new internal? From research that I've done, it doesn't appear that I can do this.
My other question is if I put my old hard drive in an enclosure, will the bootcamp partition mount in OS X? Can I then clone the old partition onto the new hard drive? If so, which application do you recommend? I have SuperDuper or Disk Utility.
If anyone has any other suggestions please let me know!
Thanks,
Chris
I am having a problem. I have a 2008 imac that was partitioned for Lion and Windows 7. My hard drive started to fail (read/write errors, slow access times, etc.) and is out of warranty so I replaced it with a new one. That went well but my problem is this:
I originally started with Windows XP and upgraded to Windows 7 via the Anytime upgrade. Now that Lion is installed, it will not allow me to install XP on my new bootcamp partition, and I cannot do a fresh install of WIndows 7 since it is an anytime upgrade disk. My question is this:
If I take my old hard drive (I assume the bootcamp partition is still good as all my problems happened on the mac side) and put it in an enclosure, can I boot into windows from there and clone the drive onto a new partition I make on my new internal? From research that I've done, it doesn't appear that I can do this.
My other question is if I put my old hard drive in an enclosure, will the bootcamp partition mount in OS X? Can I then clone the old partition onto the new hard drive? If so, which application do you recommend? I have SuperDuper or Disk Utility.
If anyone has any other suggestions please let me know!
Thanks,
Chris