Re: make drive image of MacOS and WinVista on macbook with EFI
- From: Denis <Denis.Nicklas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:20:46 -0700
On 21 Aug., 16:45, Mark Conrad <non...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1187692175.995728.167...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Denis <Denis.Nick...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am looking for a software to make an image of my hd of my macbook. I
tried acronis (commercial) and rescuecd (free) but it looks like that
they can't handle the new EFI.
Does anyone already found a solution?
Yes I have, basically the same as another poster suggested, I use dd
which is a Unix utility accessed from Terminal.
It is not at all easy to use, a steep learning curve, however it does
the backup/restore job for me.
I run Vista Ultimate on a MacBook Pro, the 4 GB model purchased a week
ago at the Apple store in Sacramento.
Vista and OS X occupy equal sized 74 GB partitions on my internal drive.
Just now finished a custom dd backup/restore routine that works great.
I always _test_ my backup/restore by a rather rigorous method:
1) Make the backup, presently requires 36 minutes to
back up the combined Vista _and_ OSX.
(in perspective, the Mac partition takes less than 3 minutes to back up,
but the darn Vista partition takes the additional 33 minutes, due to the
screwy way that Vista scatters its files all over the partition)
2) I then "wipe" the entire drive with hex zeroes, effectively
destroying all the data on the drive.
3) Then I destroy the disk file system and disk partition table.
Don't ask, you do not want to know those details.<g>
With the internal drive so completely destroyed, such that it will not
even mount on the desktop, the MacBook Pro is ready to be 'restored'.
Booting from an external hard drive, I restored the internal drive,
still took 36 minutes to do the restore, which is the bad feature of
this way of backing up and restoring a completely hosed drive.
Not to mention the pain of initially creating the custom dd routine and
preparing the internal drive for backup.
...but for me it works great, be more than happy to share details on any
seldom used Mac NG of your choice, because this is of no interest to the
general Mac users of this particular NG.
Have you tried all conventional available commercial backup/restore
schemes, perhaps one of them will work.
There must be _some_ way that regular Windows users back up Vista.
BootCamp advocates here tell me that almost every app' that works on PC
hardware will also work on a Mac using a BootCamp created Vista
partition.
Obviously your experience with Windows backup app's does not reflect
that common opinion, from what I gather by reading your post.
Mark-
Thanks Marc,
i continued looking arround for backuing up my macbook with dd. And
another question came up: when I do dd =if'my disk' of='somewhere' can
I restore the the image to any other (bigger) disk (in case my disk
crashes and i use the opertunity to buy a bigger one?
Denis
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