[rickcarl]

I have a MacBook with a bootcamped hard drive running Leopard and XP. I would like to clone it to a faster, smaller drive. How do I go about it? Thanks in advance for leads or help.

[Dan Frakes]

Do you want to clone both the Mac and Windows partitions? If it's just the Windows partition, then Winclone works great:

http://www.macworld....2/winclone.html

[rickcarl]

Dan Frakes said:

Do you want to clone both the Mac and Windows partitions? If it's just the Windows partition, then Winclone works great:

www.macworld.com/article/131253/2007/12/winclone.html

Yes, I saw your article about winclone. I want to do the entire drive - both partitions: OSX Leopard and XP. There's actually nothing on the Leopard except the original load however the XP has Adobe apps and files.


The current XP partition is 180GBtotal/160GBfree which I want to reduce to 120-140GBtotal with the rest for Leopard on a 7200rpm 200GB drive (which is somewhat less of course). It looks like I need to bootcamp another drive and then clone XP over to it - hopefuly reducing the partition size and not losing the Adobe activations.











































































































I need to send my drive in the mail so I want a clone in case something happens with a magnetic swipe or bump that does it in. If Winclone makes an image that I can put on a DVD/DL, that would work for me I think.















































Edit: Now that I've downloaded and looked at Winclone, I've read the winclone instructions about how to shrink the original bootcamped partition to the size I want before making the disk image for cloning. Winclone does it with the Tools menu. It doesn't actually shrink the partition as much as it does defrag into a small space. Shrinking/moving files takes a long time. A long, long time. Okay, a very long time considering I've only got 17GB of data on a 2.4GHz driven MB HD. The clone itself took 12.5 minutes to create an 8GB file. This will do the job for me.



Edit after finishing:

I wanted to clone onto a lesser GB but faster Hitachi (call it B) in an OWC enclosure the stock drive (call it A) already set up with Leopard/XP and apps in a Penryn MacBook.
DL Carbon Copy Cloner to clone A-Leopard in the MB to B in the enclosure. Straightforward. DL Winclone to make an image file of A's XP partition. With the A-XP partition larger than I need, I use a Winclone tool to shrink the partition file size. The image is on A-Leopard. I burn a copy of the image onto a DVD/DL.
To save time, I try to bootcamp the enclosure B-Leopard. I hear your laughter. Bootcamp does not work on an enclosure. I need to swap drives.
Oops, the MB hard drive uses Torx screws to hold some kind of flashing on the drive. Walk down to the local computer store and buy the tool. Do some deli shopping to sustain me during this project. Swap the flashing and install B-Leopard into the MB and A into the enclosure.
B wouldn't boot. No bootable disk present. Hit any key. Nothing works. Step back from the project and decide to start the laundry. Return to take B out of the MB and A out of the enclosure and swap the flashing with my new Torx tool. A boots fine and opens B in the enclosure. Time for a cup of coffee while I wonder why it didn't boot.
A was set to boot into XP. When I clone onto B I also cloned the setting but there is no XP on the clone. Option-boot to the enclosure and change the boot drive setting. Remove B from enclosure and A from MB. Swap flashing with my, by now, indispensible Torx tool and boot B in the MB. No boot disk found. B-Leopard did not clone right. Time to take out the now well-wrinkled laundry.
I discover that option boot works on B. Bootcamp B.
Did I mention that Winclone only works with NTFS? Dan Frakes mentioned with a wave of his pen that there were a few problems. Bootcamp formats to Fat-32. I locate a XP SP2 disk and try to format the bootcamp partition. It wouldn't install because on the reboot there was no bootable disk present.
Find the Leopard disk and boot to disk utilities and repair the Leopard system on B. Remove the bootcamp. Everything boots normally now so I sack out for an uninterrupted six hours.
Work only wants me today if it rains but it's a beautiful day so I'll stay home and cut the grass. Plus I can fiddle with Winclone some more. First, bootcamp B and install XP on my B partition. Oops, can't find the XP disk in the drive. Common problem but I have no idea how to solve it. I'd love to run XP from the enclosure but that's a no no.
Swap drives and flashing again. Torx to the rescue. A back into the MB. B back into the enclosure. Use XP on A to format to NTFS the bootcamp partition on B. I now have Leopard with a XP NTFS partition - in the enclosure. Swap drives. My hands are shaking with impending success. I drop one of the screws on the carpet. Tears fill my eyes with frustration. Finally I locate the screw by feel.
After swap install, boot into B-Leopard. Run Winclone restore. Image size too large. No shrinking possible. The compressed .dmg for Winclone will not fit a smaller partition. I swap the drives with A into MB and B into the enclosure. Time for my daily Lithium. I don't know why this didn't work but I feel better.
Here it is. Version 2 has a known bug. The Winclone developer has a workaround. I open the package and remove the size file. Since this is something that I want to keep, I again burn a copy of the revised image along with the Winclone app that opens it onto a DVD/DL. Winclone opens and copies to the bootcamp on B in the enclosure.
Done? Oh, no. I started this project because I wanted a faster (though lesser sized) drive in my MB. Torx once again to the rescue. A out of the MB. Remove the flashing. B out of the enclosure. Attach the flashing. Install the drive. XP CHKDSK, reboot, new hard disk driver. Yeah. My $2 torx tool goes into the toolbox. XP with Adobe Master Collection on the faster disk in the MB with all activation codes intact. Leopard 10.5.2 also. I make up a drive C 100GB 7200rpm aluminum external enclosure for scratch. A goes into the OWC enclosure for backup data.
CCC doesn't necessarily clone a functioning drive. Bootcamp doesn't always locate the XP install disk. Winclone has a size bug. A fresh install might be better if you don't like working through issues.
I go start on the grass.



Edit again!!! Winclone does reduce the file system. After making an image, be sure and enlarge the file system back to fill the space if you expect to use the drive without reformatting. I finished with an 18GB usable file system in an mostly unusable 180GB space.