sure, i can continue using the terminal, but with a gui that's designed right from the ground up, why bother? of course i'll continue to hone my terminal skills and will have the commands standing by incase i need to use the terminal again, but i wanted to post this so anyone using paralells can rest assured there's decent (and free) backup solution for their bootcamp partition. no issues, no problems, just smooth sailing. after the expected "hey, you can't launch windows because some files are corrupt" error, i launched winclone and reimaged my bootcamp partition. i purposely hosed my windows partition by removing a few key files and exiting windows. after a few day of tinkering, i decided to put winclone to the test. I launched it and was greeted with not only an idiot-proof interface, but to my delight, a log window opened INCLUDING full display of input/output (terminal command, progress, errors, etc.). I booted into mac osx, installed parallels 3150rc2, and made sure everything was in order, then i quit parallels and downloaded winclone. i remembered someone mentioned winclone (apologies for not giving due credit to original posters, a search should show who praised winclone some weeks ago). now that i'm back i decided to get a fresh start, so i wiped/rebuilt my bootcamp partition.Īfter installing windows xp sp2 (and running every update available), and installing/upgrading microsoft office 2003, norton, my windows applications/utilties, etc., i was ready to create my clone. A few of its drawbacks: It only supports a drive with a single partition. In fact, I would personally say that Boot Camp Assistant is one of the worst apps that comes with OS X and unlike the rest, it doesn’t work seamlessly. i hung things up for a while because we're in the middle of a large enterprize rollout. Installing Windows on a Mac should be a piece of cake with Bootcamp, but that rarely is the case. apparently a typo screwed up my last terminal created bootcamp partition. Create a Boot Camp partition on your new Mac. Step by step instructions are available at the Save Boot Camp to a Winclone Image support article. Create an Winclone image of your current Boot Camp partition. until now i've been using terminal or ghost to create backups. Simply make a Winclone image of your existing Boot Camp partition and then restore that image to a new Boot Camp partition. Based on advice from parallels forum users, i downloaded and used winclone to create a backup of my bootcamp partition. I purchased the OWC Accelsior S PCIe to 2.5 SSD Host adapter to install Windows on my 2009 Mac Pro.
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