![]() ![]() The two main camps were the SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner plus Winclone people and the ‘dd’ people. I read a bunch of tutorials online, and there isn’t really a nice simple way to do all of this. Plus, I wanted to preserve my Windows 7 Bootcamp partition. It would also mean that I would definitely not be able to recover my XP VMWare image, since I don’t back it up in Time Machine. I could have just reinstalled and pulled my files from Time Machine for the Mac OS side, but that takes forever. Now the question was, how do I move all my data over? So I ordered a new 500 GB Western Digital Scorpio Black (WD5000BPKT). The SMART status was still ok, though it was listing 88 bad blocks, which is supposedly over the threshold of 36. I installed the smartmontools using Homebrew, and checked the SMART status again, as well as doing a hard drive self test. Then I had another input/output error when trying to back up a Windows XP VMWare image. I left it at that for a while, since the drive’s SMART status was still OK. ![]() I ended up deleting it, since I had a separate copy of their data (I like redundancy). I figured the most likely cause was a bad block, but that didn’t help me move that image. Unfortunately, when I tried to move this image to an external drive for cold storage, it would fail with an input/output error. Recently, I had imaged a customer’s drive to a disk image on my Mac partition, which seemed to go fine. The Windows 7 install is primarily for gaming, with some Windows 7 cross platform testing thrown in. I partitioned it as ~427 GB for Mac OS X and ~72 GB for Windows 7 Pro. I hadn’t had any problems with it, and it got hit pretty hard throughout the course of a week. One of the first things I did when I got my new MacBook Pro was replace the hard drive with a larger, faster drive. winclone/Windows.You can read this on my new site if you want: usr/bin/hdiutil attach -nomount "/Users/Nicholas/Desktop/Bootcamp Clone. usr/sbin/diskutil unmount "/dev/disk0s3"return value of unmount is 0 Read image file./Users/Nicholas/Desktop/Bootcamp Clone. Reading image file./Users/Nicholas/Desktop/Bootcamp Clone. winclone' -gptrefresh_path='/Applications/Winclone.app/Contents/Resources' -ntfstools_dir=/Library/NTFSProgs > ~/Library/Logs/Winclone.log 2>&1 & Sat Jul 30 09:38:: '/Applications/Winclone.app/Contents/Resources/winclone.perl' -restore -copy_bcd '/Applications/Winclone.app/Contents/Resources/BCD' -disk_device /dev/disk0 -ntfs_partition /dev/disk0s3 -v -update_bootini -q -image_dir='/Users/Nicholas/Desktop/Bootcamp Clone. Also, I can mount the partition through Winclone, so the image doesn't appear to be damaged. I thought the problem was that I was restoring from a portable drive, so I moved the image over to my desktop and tried to restore there, and still it doesn't work. I first thought that the problem was that the size of the partition was too small, so I made it 5 gigs bigger than the Winclone partition (which is 50 gigs, so the new partition is 55 gigs). I have reinstalled all the data, and made another partition for Bootcamp through the Bootcamp Assistant, but when I have gone to restore the Winclone partition it fails. I recently backed up my computer, backed up my Bootcamp partition with Winclone, and then upgraded the harddrive. ![]()
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