HI Eric, One solution to back up your windows partition from bootcamp, is to use a windows imaging utility like drive snapshot. www.drivesnapshot.de. You can download the 150 kilobyte program. It can run in windows so that you can backup your windows partition, even while it is being used, and you can also run it from dos, though you won't need it on a mac. The newest version of snapshot.exe can let you choose what to restore, the next time windows is run. This lets you start snapshot from windows, select to which image to restore back, then it reboots. Snapshot restores your image and your backed up windows is there again. I have years of experience with snapshot, but I'm still struggling with windows under bootcamp, so I can't warn you for issues you might run into. But at least, snapshot.exe will run for 30 days, so maybe give it a shot.
Hth, Paul. On Sep 2, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Eric Caron wrote: > Dear list, > > I have a bootcamp partition with Win 7. I'd like to back it up but > have not found a good solution. If I were to purchase VM Fusion and convert > my partition could I then use Carbon copy cloner to back up windows as it is > probably part of my Mac HD at that point? > > Related question, If I want to run Lyon with all my resources, including my 4 > GB ram, can I just not open the VM Fusion program? then when I Need Windows > run the VM for the time I need it? > > Thanks for tips as this part of the Mac world is very new to me. > > Eric Caron > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
