Hi, this discussion is a continuation of How to run Boot Camp on External Hard Drive? This discussion focuses on how to clone the C: disk in Bootcamp to a second bootable drive.
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11), Windows 7
Can you clone and check only 1 and 4?
Another option is upgrading old LILY to Windows 10, because Windows 1o supports Thunderbolt, and a direct clone from image might be possible.
You mean you want me to reclone LILY to the new disk again?
Yes, it might be the easiest. If the only error you had was the BCD error, the Disk UUID change and BCD rebuild.
pentelho wrote:
If you are in Bay Area, I could drop by, or perhaps you can refer me?
If you want to send me an air ticket from US East Coast, I can join you. 😉
Well, I have not been back East forever. I go to Asia a lot though.
When I redo the cloning, should I do in "forensic" or "intelligent" mode? I understand that forensic mode clones everything, even deleted files, while the "intelligent" mode is faster and recommended. Last time around I did forensic. Thx Steve😉
Try intelligent mode.
Loner ,
All of this does and did not work. It does not make sense, but it does not work. BTW, the UUID of both disks is exactly the same.
the last thing I am doing now is to clone Lily to Lily2 where both disks are peripheral on a second PC with its own system. In theory this should lead to an exact copy of Lily on Lily2. Unfortunately I need to use a slow notebook to do so, which so far has cloned 5% in 20 minutes.
The UUID being the same is a possible problem. You can try Terabyte Image for Linux as a test.
Loner T!!! I did it. When you have your Bootcamp on your internal drive and the C: system externally on Thunderbolt SSD, I always thought there must be a way to clone C: to another external drive to have a back up, for plug and play as people say. Well, I talked to you, no solution, I tried everything!!! I tried Paragon, Acronis, Clonzilla and all the usual suspects, to no avail! Finally, I bought another SSD drive just to free up my back up MacOS X back up for experiments. I cleaned the drive under Window 10 diskpart select disk clean all. Then I used HDD guru raw copy toolto clone my external system to the clean drive (sector by sector) under Window 10 (independent machine with both source and target disk attached via Thunderbolt). Then I switched my system drive on external SSD for the copy. Man, Window 7 started up like a charm. It asked me to perform CHKDSK which I did. Thereafter I restarted, and man, I had my system back as a carbon copy of the original drive. I succeeded to clone bootcamp C: which even Winclone is unable to do. Now, if my system fails, I just plug in the backup drive and I am back running. I make all my money from remote consulting, so this is a life insurance. I hope others can profit from mu experience.
Cheers. pentelo
Loner T!!! I did it. When you have your Bootcamp on your internal drive and the C: system externally on Thunderbolt SSD, I always thought there must be a way to clone C: to another external SSD drive to have a back up, for plug and play as people say. Well, I talked to you, no solution, I tried everything!!! I tried Paragon, Acronis, Clonzilla and all the usual suspects, to no avail! Finally, I bought another SSD drive just to free up my MacOS X SSD back up for experiments. I cleaned the drive under Window 10 diskpart select disk clean all. Then I used HDD guru raw copy toolto clone my external system to the clean drive (sector by sector) under Window 10 (independent machine with both source and target disk attached via Thunderbolt). Then I switched my system drive on external SSD for the copy. Man, Windows 7 started up like a charm. It asked me to perform CHKDSK which I did. Thereafter I restarted, and man, I had my system back as a carbon copy of the original drive. I succeeded to clone bootcamp C: which even Winclone is unable to do. Now, if my system fails, I just plug in the backup drive and I am back running. I make all my money from remote consulting, so this is a life insurance. I hope others can profit from my experience.
Cheers. pentelho
Excellent work. I will look at the tool you mention.
Cloning of Windows Partition in Bootcamp
