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I'm running Mac OSX 10.4.11 on my Mac Pro, with a second hard drive installed, formatted NTFS and running Boot Camp beta. I'd like to upgrade to 10.5 and consolidate both my OSX drive and my Windows XP drive to a single, larger hard drive. Is there a way to copy Windows and my Windows applications to a new partition without reinstalling everything? Any advice on how best to proceed?
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Moving/copying a Boot Camp partition
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Dan Frakes 
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Posted 24 September 2008 - 10:14 PM
papermill said:
I'm running Mac OSX 10.4.11 on my Mac Pro, with a second hard drive installed, formatted NTFS and running Boot Camp beta. I'd like to upgrade to 10.5 and consolidate both my OSX drive and my Windows XP drive to a single, larger hard drive. Is there a way to copy Windows and my Windows applications to a new partition without reinstalling everything? Any advice on how best to proceed?
You'll need to partition the new drive into Mac and Windows partitions. After doing that, and formatting the Windows partition properly, you can use Winclone to "clone" the old Boot Camp drive to the new Windows partition:
http://www.macworld....2/winclone.html
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Posted 25 September 2008 - 04:21 AM
Winclone does work. I used it with my MacBook to install XP on a larger, faster hard drive. DF's reference is to his out of date article but it still has some good tips. Winclone is on 2.x now. Take time to back up everything first. Note the compression and expansion features. You compress the Windows filesystem and then make an image. Then you install it and expand it. It helps to have an external hard drive connected to store the image. Fortunately it is easy to do over if things don't go right. There may be some problems with drivers if you copy from one model Mac and install on a different model Mac.
I remember thinking at the time that it would be just as easy reinstalling from disk and using the backup.
I remember thinking at the time that it would be just as easy reinstalling from disk and using the backup.
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Posted 28 September 2008 - 04:37 PM
rickcarl said:
DF's reference is to his out of date article.
FYI for those reading along: Since the article was written, new features include support for FAT 32 and the ability to mount images in the Finder. The prefs window has also been tweaked. And a number of bug fixes, according to the developer.
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