How to create SSD image with Mac OS X and Windows ?

[Leo Bruno]

Hi:

On a MacBook Pro I have a 240gb SSD and 1TB HDD drives.

The SSD disc is partitioned as follows:
#1 - EFI
#2 - Mac Os X (Mac Os Expanded)
#3 - Mac Recover
#4 - Windows 7 (NTFS)

The HDD is partitioned as a single NTFS patition.

I need to create an image file from the SSD disc and save it at the Hdd disc.

The software must work by booting from a usb stick with EFI, because obviously, I removed the "Superdisc" blu ray reader.

I´m having a hard time to find a 3rd party software to accomplish it.

Some doesn´t even read the mac partition to create the image, others create the image but fails when recovering to the disc.

Have tried:

* Mac Os X native "disc tool";
* Acronis True Image
* Aomei Backupper Pro
* Clonezilla

If you know somwthing that ACTUALLY WORKS, please give me a hand.
I know that this is no business for beginners, so if you are one, please don´t bother.

Thanx in advance.

 

[JohnDS]

I believe you have to clone the Mac and Windows partitions separately. You can boot from the recovery partition and Disk Utility to clone the Mac partition to a disk image. But be aware that the disk image will not be bootable. To make a bootable image, you need to clone to an Apple formatted drive.

You can then use something like WinClone to clone the Windows partition.

 

[Leo Bruno]

I believe you have to clone the Mac and Windows partitions separately. You can boot from the recovery partition and Disk Utility to clone the Mac partition to a disk image. But be aware that the disk image will not be bootable. To make a bootable image, you need to clone to an Apple formatted drive.

You can then use something like WinClone to clone the Windows partition.

Hi John.

First I want to thank you for taking the time to answer me.

This is odd, I Tried to clone the mac partition using the disk utility tool, but that was not possible. Icould only clone the entire disk to image.

I´m using mountain Lion.