The Mac Chronicles
Winclone
Installing XP under Boot Camp is the Way of the Many Reboots; it takes just short of forever to get all the patches installed, even when starting from an SP2 base. Not something you want to have to do twice, but none of the usual backup utilities will backup or restore a Boot Camp partition.
Fortunately, there’s Winclone, a free utility to address this problem.
So far as I’ve been able to determine, Winclone is the only way to easily and reliably backup and restore a Boot Camp partition; I’m surprised that it’s not getting more press.
Winclone handles both XP and Vista partitions.
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Question:
If one’s BootCamp partition shares the same physical partition as OS X and I backed it up with SuperDuper!, do I still need to worry about WinClone?
E.G. does SuperDuper! clone so well that I could boot from the cloned drive with seamless functionality like I get with my Parallels partition? (as long as we’re talking one Physical partition)
According to the SuperDuper! developers, they only handle HFS+ partitions. Since a Boot Camp partition is either NTFS or FAT32, SuperDuper! won’t back it up.