Apple Boot Camp Editor's Review
Partition your Mac's hard drive. Now's the scary fun part. Using the Boot Camp Assistant, you'll set exactly how big you want your Windows partition to be. I chose 20GB, but it depends on how much. A file-based backup is the copying of all files in the Boot Camp partition to a folder on your Mac OS X hard disk. Use this technique when you're backing up to a FAT32 formatted removable media device such as an external USB or Firewire hard drive. Backup, restore, resize, and convert Boot Camp partitions. Restore, resize, and convert. Boot Camp Assistant is a multi boot utility included with Apple Inc.' S macOS (previously OS X) that assists users in installing Microsoft Windows operating systems on Intel-based Macintosh computers. The utility guides users through non-destructive disk partitioning (including resizing of an existing HFS+ or APFS partition, if necessary) of their hard disk drive or solid state drive.
Apple Boot Camp allows you to use multiple operating systems on a Intel-based Macintosh. This product has been designed in order to give you the possibility to install Microsoft Windows on your Macintosh, by using a multiple boot configuration. This version works with Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista.
Jul 21, 2009 Can I download Boot Camp for my Mac OS X version 10.4.11? I want to play a PC game on my Mac, but I do not have Leopard. 1 decade ago. Favorite Answer. Boot Camp Assistant is not enough for you to install and use Windows. You need drivers for the Mac hardware to work correctly with Windows. The drivers are.
Besides these operating systems, Boot Camp can also handle a Linux installation, so its Boot Managing capabilities are quite good. Installing a Linux isn't supported by the application that you can find into this package, so if you would like to use a Linux distribution on your Mac, you need to read some How-Tos.
The distribution package of Boot Camp provides you the documentation and an installation package. The installation package places an application called Boot Camp Assistant into your /Applications/Utilities directory. It also adds a new Preference pane into the System Preferences.
The Boot Camp Assistant has just a few but important features. This is the application that can start the Windows installer, repartition your HDD, it can burn a Mac Windows Drivers disk, or it can restore the startup disk to a single volume.
The Mac Windows Drivers disk is important after you finish the installation. It provides drivers for Mac-specific devices like: graphics interface, networking, soundboard, wireless networking (AirPort), bluetooth, the brightness control for the built in displays (MacBook, Mac Book Pro and iMac), and it also installs the Apple Keyboard support on Windows, including the 'Eject' key.
If you want to restart into the other OS, then you have multiple choices. Either you can select the system you want to boot from the Preference pane that the package installs into the System Preferences, or you can simply hold down the Option(Alt) key when the system starts up. A graphical boot menu appears so you can chose which OS your Mac should load.
Pluses: it gives you the possibility to install multiple operating systems on your Macintosh.
Drawbacks / flaws:
![Mac Mac](/uploads/1/2/6/1/126159174/577529872.png)
![Assistant Assistant](/uploads/1/2/6/1/126159174/547528805.png)
In conclusion: this is one of those tools that makes useless the owning of a regular PC if you already have a Intel-based Macintosh.
version reviewed: 1.2 BETA
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Before you begin all this, the original post doesn't make it very clear that you MUST have a backup of all the files in your windows installation.
Also, be aware that I don't believe that any special permissions will be copied over with the files - NTFS has a very rich set of ACLs that it supports and I don't think this information will be preserved. I don't know if it matters, but I believe that some critical system files should have certain permissions under Windows.
Maybe in the conversion from FAT32 to NTFS once you've got Windows all restored then the correct permissions are applied as FAT32 doesn't support any kind of ACLs or extended attributes.
If you have been using Services for Macintosh or Extreme•Z IP on the Windows side of things, be aware that it stores resource fork information for Macs in NTFS alternate data streams, and this data will be lost if you follow the steps outlined above.
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Also, be aware that I don't believe that any special permissions will be copied over with the files - NTFS has a very rich set of ACLs that it supports and I don't think this information will be preserved. I don't know if it matters, but I believe that some critical system files should have certain permissions under Windows.
Maybe in the conversion from FAT32 to NTFS once you've got Windows all restored then the correct permissions are applied as FAT32 doesn't support any kind of ACLs or extended attributes.
If you have been using Services for Macintosh or Extreme•Z IP on the Windows side of things, be aware that it stores resource fork information for Macs in NTFS alternate data streams, and this data will be lost if you follow the steps outlined above.
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10.4: Backup, restore, resize, and convert Boot Camp partitions
An easy way to do all this is to use Bombich's NetRestore. http://www.bombich.com/software/netrestore.html---
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10.4: Backup, restore, resize, and convert Boot Camp partitions
I have tried this hint and it works.
I made a backup of my bootcamp FIRST (!!!!)
Then took all the steps indicated in the original post.
One thing I didn't bother with is going all the way through the windows installation. Graphic in c. When I got to the key entry, I just rebooted, by then Bootcamp had made it's multi-boot partition installation and the new partition was formatted.
From there, I deleted the contents (had to unlock files (use 'see info' on the files to unlock them)) and made sure that I installed the first 4 files first.
Then it worked.
Variable sized Bootcamp.
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I made a backup of my bootcamp FIRST (!!!!)
Then took all the steps indicated in the original post.
One thing I didn't bother with is going all the way through the windows installation. Graphic in c. When I got to the key entry, I just rebooted, by then Bootcamp had made it's multi-boot partition installation and the new partition was formatted.
From there, I deleted the contents (had to unlock files (use 'see info' on the files to unlock them)) and made sure that I installed the first 4 files first.
Then it worked.
Variable sized Bootcamp.
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Shhh.. MacOSX is BSD.. shhhh!
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10.4: Backup, restore, resize, and convert Boot Camp partitions
Hi,
I am new with bootcamp. How did you backup the bootcamp first?
Bernie
I am new with bootcamp. How did you backup the bootcamp first?
Bernie
10.4: Backup, restore, resize, and convert Boot Camp partitions
I agree. This instruction is highly misleading as the author assumes that a disk image is already made. Here is another comment: it seems that FAT32 partitions cannot be greater than 32GB. So what if i wanted to resize to a 40GB partition? I assume that the requirement to use fat is due to the fact that MacOS cannot write to NTFS partitions. However, what about using MacFuse (http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/)? Does that work?
10.4: Backup, restore, resize, and convert Boot Camp partitions
I haven't tried this technique, but NTFS-3G via MacFUSE does work pretty well. The write speed is slow (see the FAQ on the MacFUSE wiki page at Google for why), but it's functional.
The other problem with FAT32 is the lack of support for large files (over 4GB).. So, even if this did work, you couldn't write the image file to a FAT32 disk.
See my other reply for something that I know does actually work, seeing as how I've done it.
The other problem with FAT32 is the lack of support for large files (over 4GB).. So, even if this did work, you couldn't write the image file to a FAT32 disk.
See my other reply for something that I know does actually work, seeing as how I've done it.
Nov 30, 2019 How to Restore a Non-Startup Volume. Launch Disk Utility, located at /Applications/Utilities. The Disk Utility app will open, displaying a single window divided into three spaces: a toolbar, a sidebar showing currently mounted drives. Clone Mac with Boot Camp to a new Hard Drive. My MacBook Pro has been running out of hard disk space for some time. I’m down to less than 1GB of free space on both my Macintosh HD and the Boot Camp Windows 7 partition. So I hopped on NewEgg and got a WD Black 500GB notebook hard drive and 8GB’s of RAM. It clone Mac hard drive to SSD in few clicks without interrupting your work. As per your need to have 450GB to OS X Lion, and 112GB to Bootcamp, after formating your SSD you need to create partitions on it according to your requirement using disk utility. After that using this amazing Mac cloning tool you can create clone of your HDD to SSD just by selecting your source and destination drive. Step 2: Choose source hard disk drive and destination SSD. After running AweClone on your Mac, you need to choose the source drive and destination drive. In his case, destination drive is a solid state drive. Step 3: Clone Mac data to SSD. Once you have selected both drives, you can begin to clone your Mac. Clone mac hard drive to ssd boot camp.
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10.4: Backup, restore, resize, and convert Boot Camp partitions
I love the 'I haven't actually tried this' disclaimer; that helps build confidence that your idea is valid and should be relied upon..
I managed to upgrade my HDD and resize my BootCamp partition all at the same time, and -- did I mention -- actually performed these actions in the real world, not merely in theory. If you aren't replacing the HDD, and are squeamish about trying to dynamically grow the partition, then you can just use WinClone to backup the BootCamp partition to a file, then use BootCamp Assistant to delete and recreate the partition, start the install, cancel out after formatting, and then use WinClone to restore the image to the new, bigger partition..
Anyhow, here's my list of steps, including the HDD upgrade and making VMWare Fusion happy again after the transformation:
http://lonewolf-links.blogspot.com/2007/09/mbp-w-bootcamp-seamless-hdd-upgrade.html
Hopefully, it will help somebody out.
--KG
I managed to upgrade my HDD and resize my BootCamp partition all at the same time, and -- did I mention -- actually performed these actions in the real world, not merely in theory. If you aren't replacing the HDD, and are squeamish about trying to dynamically grow the partition, then you can just use WinClone to backup the BootCamp partition to a file, then use BootCamp Assistant to delete and recreate the partition, start the install, cancel out after formatting, and then use WinClone to restore the image to the new, bigger partition..
Anyhow, here's my list of steps, including the HDD upgrade and making VMWare Fusion happy again after the transformation:
http://lonewolf-links.blogspot.com/2007/09/mbp-w-bootcamp-seamless-hdd-upgrade.html
Hopefully, it will help somebody out.
--KG
10.4: Backup, restore, resize, and convert Boot Camp partitions
Thanks for the timely write-up!
Your summary was the best I've found. I followed your roadmap with a few minor differences:
1) I had a FAT32 Windows partition, and intended to keep it that way so I can read and write from OS X, so I followed the instructions to use the 'Restore' feature of Disk Utility to backup and restore the Windows partition. This worked very well. Detailed instructions are available at: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3463298#3463298
2) I ended up buying a Vantec NexStar 3 NST-360SU at the local MicroCenter, since I needed it right away, instead of getting the enclosure from OWC.
3) For some reason, the drive initialization defauled to the Apple Partition Format, not the required GUID Partition Table, so after reloading from SuperDuper, I could not get Boot Camp Assistant to partition for Windows. I had to re-format the drive and select the proper partition scheme. I would have assumed that with the external drive attached (via FireWire -- this was a different enclosure on a different drive than the one mentioned above) to my MacBook Pro, that the GUID partition map would have been the default partition type.
Other than that, it worked like a champ!
Your summary was the best I've found. I followed your roadmap with a few minor differences:
1) I had a FAT32 Windows partition, and intended to keep it that way so I can read and write from OS X, so I followed the instructions to use the 'Restore' feature of Disk Utility to backup and restore the Windows partition. This worked very well. Detailed instructions are available at: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3463298#3463298
2) I ended up buying a Vantec NexStar 3 NST-360SU at the local MicroCenter, since I needed it right away, instead of getting the enclosure from OWC.
3) For some reason, the drive initialization defauled to the Apple Partition Format, not the required GUID Partition Table, so after reloading from SuperDuper, I could not get Boot Camp Assistant to partition for Windows. I had to re-format the drive and select the proper partition scheme. I would have assumed that with the external drive attached (via FireWire -- this was a different enclosure on a different drive than the one mentioned above) to my MacBook Pro, that the GUID partition map would have been the default partition type.
Other than that, it worked like a champ!
10.4: Backup, restore, resize, and convert Boot Camp partitions
> Detailed instructions are available at: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3463298#3463298
This link is inaccessible. Even when I log in to Apple Discussions with my account, it still will not allow me to view this thread. Bottom line, Microsoft simply does NOT WANT anyone doing what we are trying to do, and is making Apple squelch any means of allowing it.
This link is inaccessible. Even when I log in to Apple Discussions with my account, it still will not allow me to view this thread. Bottom line, Microsoft simply does NOT WANT anyone doing what we are trying to do, and is making Apple squelch any means of allowing it.
10.4: Backup, restore, resize, and convert Boot Camp partitions
I ran out of space on my Boot Camp partition and wanted to resize it without reinstalling everything. It was formatted as FAT32, so I could do it all from within Disk Utility. As an added bonus, I got VMware Fusion using the new larger Boot Camp partition once I was all done. I used this hint in conjunction with a few others and posted my details here. Hopefully it can help someone.
10.4: Backup, restore, resize, and convert Boot Camp partitions
MacFuse will indeed enable NTFS writing from Mac OS X but at the expense of disabling disk image mounting. I would definitely say it is a very poor choice but if you absolutely must have NTFS writing ability from OS X, go for it.
10.4: Backup, restore, resize, and convert Boot Camp partitions
Does copying the entire partition back and forth cause the Windows install to become highly fragmented?
10.4: Backup, restore, resize, and convert Boot Camp partitions
Bombich Software's NetRestore has been discontinued. Does anyone have a copy of it? I would like to try that method.
Also, I'd like to point out that with the current Boot Camp Utility, you have to delete and recreate the partition using the Windows Installer CD or else the boot camp partition will not work.
What is needed is for Apple to allow writes to NTFS volumes. MacFuse purports to do this, but if you have Parallels installed, I believe that version of MacFuse will hose Parallels, or at least it did for me last time I tried that.
Also, I'd like to point out that with the current Boot Camp Utility, you have to delete and recreate the partition using the Windows Installer CD or else the boot camp partition will not work.
What is needed is for Apple to allow writes to NTFS volumes. MacFuse purports to do this, but if you have Parallels installed, I believe that version of MacFuse will hose Parallels, or at least it did for me last time I tried that.