How do I clone my boot camp NTFS drive?

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How do I clone my boot camp NTFS drive?

OK, here it is:

Drive #1: 1 TB with OS X 10.5 (HFS+)
Drive #2: 320GB with Windows XP (NTFS - this I boot into XP with using Boot Camp)
Drive #3: 320GB (bare non-formatted)

Is there a way to boot into Drive #1 (OS X) and clone drive #2 to drive #3? I've tried SuperDuper (does not support NTFS) and Carbon Copy Cloner seems to have the same limitation.

Any ideas/input appreciated

Mac Pro 8-core 2.8GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Aug 2, 2008 2:31 PM

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Answer 1

The hatter

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Aug 2, 2008 3:46 PM in response to heycarlos

WinClone http://www.twocanoes.com supports XP and Vista, FAT and NTFS

Cloning software for Windows should work, but you would need another NTFS volume (FW etc).

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Answer 2

Aug 2, 2008 4:50 PM in response to heycarlos

I have a 250 GB internal drive with Windows Vista cloned to an external 250 GB drive. I used "Copy Cat" to accomplish the cloning and it works perfectly. As you've already determined, SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner will not work.

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Answer 3

Aug 3, 2008 1:25 AM in response to heycarlos

What is your objective with the unformatted drive and as is the same capacity as your existing Windows drive is it just faster?

If you are trying to expand/clone the Windows Drive what you should do is temporally pull the OSx drive out and boot directly into Windows and format and clone on the dark side!
Once completed re-fit the Osx drive back into your Mac and reboot . Go to Disc Utility and reformat the old Windows drive into HFS+ if you then want to.

By the way the MacPro really doesn't care which drive bays are occupied so if it just a matter symmetry just swap the drive sleds !

That said Boot-Camp wants the Windows drive on the Boot drive only. Any other drive is a standard dual boot system requiring disc formatting through Disc utility or Terminal command line!

A bit of command line can also be used to format the other drive if you care to go down that route!

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