If i use traditional windows back up software for a bootcamp partition can i restore from same? I'm reluctant to upgrade to Lion without knowing my bootcamp windows 7 partition is safe and that it could be restored if necessary. I use Time Machine but was told that the bootcamp partition is not backed up by it.
Any thoughts?
MBA Late 2010, Mac OS X (10.6.6), Bootcamp W7 Pro
First get DiskWarrior and see if it can resolve your HDD problem . It is amazing what this utility can do for disk problems. I have used it since version 1.0 and it has spared me grief many times on many Macs.
If your problems are resolved by by DiskWarrior then I would clone the Mac OS partition with SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner (both are excellent products) to an external drive as a bootable (GUID partition table) backup.
You can use this drive for clone restoration or as a base for repair utilities.
For the BootCamp partition strongly consider Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2011 Suite to backup to an external HDD formated NTFS. From this you can restore to an existing or newly created BootCamp partition.
If you do have an unrepairable HDD hardware problem then I would clone the Mac OS and BootCamp so as to be able to clone back to a new drive.
SuperDuper costs $27.95 for full features and Carbon Copy Cloner is donation ware.
Thanks, I have already purchased and downloaded Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2011 Suite and have backed up the drive and am in the process of creating a bootable recovery disk - haven't gotten hold of Disk Warrior yet but that's next. Since I have a fairly recent Time Windows backup of the Mac HD I'm covered there if it can't be recovered but it sounds like Super Duper would be a good choice.
Windows_7 Bootcamp Partition Back Up?
