How to restore a bootcamp partition?

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How to restore a bootcamp partition?

I recently updgraded from a 250gb drive to a 750gb drive in my MacBook Pro. I used Time Machine to do a restore of Mac OSX, which worked fine, but now I need to restore the Bootcamp Windows 7 partition. Currently I have the old hard drive in an external enclosure.

I'd really like to do something just like what Time Machine did where all settings and configurations are also transferred over, since some of the Windows applications I have use quite a bit of security that I don't want to redo.

What is the easiest and most efficient way to do this?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Aug 14, 2013 6:32 PM

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dalstott

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Aug 15, 2013 9:05 AM in response to mkodama

I would think you could use Winclone to migrate the previous Boot Camp partition to a newly created BC partition on your new drive. You would go through the Boot camp procedure to the point of installing windows then quit Boot Camp installation. You should have a partition ready for the old installation.

Not having done this myself, you need to get in touch with Two Canoes software for expert sdvice.

http://twocanoes.com/winclone/support

Paragon Software has been used successfully for backing up Winclone and they may be able to advise you as to their products capability to do this kind of migration.

http://www.paragon-software.com/products/home/

You of course will need to have a way to connect the old hard disk with either an adapter or an enclosure.

http://eshop.macsales.com/search/universal+drive+adapter

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