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Question About Moving Lion and Bootcamp Partition to new SSD

LeGacY X

LeGacY X

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Hello, I'm sorry if this has been answered already, but I've been searching the forums for a while and haven't been able to find a clear answer. My roommate is getting a new SSD for his macbook and needs an easy way to move both his OSX and Bootcamp Partition to the new drive. He has a Time Machine backup, however I am under the impression that this doesn't back up his bootcamp partition. Is there any easy (and free) to do this? 😕 Thanks in advance!
 
LeGacY X said:
Hello, I'm sorry if this has been answered already, but I've been searching the forums for a while and haven't been able to find a clear answer. My roommate is getting a new SSD for his macbook and needs an easy way to move both his OSX and Bootcamp Partition to the new drive. He has a Time Machine backup, however I am under the impression that this doesn't back up his bootcamp partition. Is there any easy (and free) to do this? 😕 Thanks in advance!
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Time machine will get the mac partition as it was....bootcamp is another story tho. You will need a 3rd party ghost utility for that. I just end up doing a restore for Mac and a fresh install on windows...but I only have games on the windows side...so its not too hard.
 
LeGacY X said:
Hello, I'm sorry if this has been answered already, but I've been searching the forums for a while and haven't been able to find a clear answer. My roommate is getting a new SSD for his macbook and needs an easy way to move both his OSX and Bootcamp Partition to the new drive. He has a Time Machine backup, however I am under the impression that this doesn't back up his bootcamp partition. Is there any easy (and free) to do this? 😕 Thanks in advance!
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Winclone can do this and it used to be free, but I believe it's a paid application now. Time Machine cannot backup your Bootcamp partition. I've tried using the built-in Windows backup to do this before I knew about Winclone and it was a complete disaster since it does not just restore itself into the bootcamp partition. It insists on taking over your whole drive and I lost my OSX partition. Ooops.
 
Winclone is the way to go there are other methods but they are far too time consuming and could lead to data loss.
 
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