I've never played with partitions, before, or after the install of windows. I don't know how to do it, and don't want to have to do it unless I absolutely have to. I wish somebody could log onto my system over the Internet and terminal and do what they need to do. :-)
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 11, 2015, at 5:10 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sort of. The image function handles Apple disk images, which include raw > disk images. The restoration (i.e., copying) of a source to a target, either > of which may be an image, is facilitated by ASR (Apple Software Restore) > which performs a block-by-block copy, except that it knows about filesystem > structures so it can copy only used blocks and thus is limited to HFS+. For > a file-based copy, use ditto, as noted before on the thread. For an explicit > raw copy, use dd. > > To answer the question, in general, of how to copy a Windows partition, I > suggest dd, otherwise you’re never going to be entirely satisfied with the > outcome. If you aren’t happy mucking about with, or up, your Windows install > (and who is?) then do what people advised and simply back up the stuff from > Windows that’s important to you, then blow Windows away. Then reinstall > Windows using BootCamp. It’s true that there are other, more efficient > methods, such as the open-source NTFS clone tool used by CloneZilla that has > ended up in some commercial product or other, but honestly, at this stage you > may as well give up hope of it being easy or straightforward—you’ll have to > recreate the partitions, exactly as they are now, then restore the files, > then make the partitions bootable. All a lot of work. > > Or just buy VMWare Fusion and save yourself a lot of pain and suffering now > and in the future. Virtual machines are just files on your disk that you can > back up however you want. > > For your mismatched partition problem, did you play with the partition tables > at any stage after installing OS X? If you booted Windows in BIOS mode, > which is often the case, then it only manipulates the MBR table. OS X and > BootCamp assistant set up a hybrid MBR/GPT partition scheme and put the > correct records in there for both Windows and OS X, and you shouldn’t touch > it once you’ve set it up with the assistant. If I were you, I’d take this > opportunity to wipe everything clean and reinstall, but then, I’m like that. > :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
