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    Restoring to a new hard drive: how would that impact OSX and Bootcamp?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by lanwarrior, Mar 25, 2009.

  1. lanwarrior

    lanwarrior Notebook Evangelist

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    I have MacBook Pro (MBP) Unibody (late 2008) with 320GB 5400 RPM HDD. I am planning to upgrade the HDD to 320 GB 7200 RPM (Western Digital Scorpio Black WD3200BEKT 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s).

    I plan to use TimeMachine to do the restore of OSX and WinClone to do the restore of WinXP in BootCamp. The steps will be:

    1) Backup OSX and BootCamp
    2) Put new HDD in
    3) Boot-up from the Leopard CD and select TimeMachine to restore. At this point, OSX should be exactly the same as in the old HDD
    4) In OSX, run WinClone and restore the BootCamp partition ( see question below

    The current HDD is partitioned as follow:
    - OSX: 48.23GB used / 173.65GB free = 221.9 GB total
    - Bootcamp: 46.6GB used / 29.3 GB free = 75.9GB total

    My understanding are:

    1) During the restore with TimeMachine, OSX will be smart enough to create 221.9GB of Mac OSX Extended partition.
    [Q]: Is this true? Or the restore will just destroy the BootCamp partition, or even worse OSX cannot recognize the Bootcamp partition anymore because Windows is no longer there?

    2) The remaining 75.9GB will be left alone by TimeMachine

    3) Once OSX is restored to the 221.9 GB partition, I can run WinClone to restore the BootCamp partition using the 75.9GB
    Q: Is this correct? Or do I have to create a BootCamp partition AGAIN using OSX BootCamp Assistant, but instead of installing Windows, do a restore?
     
    lanwarrior, Mar 25, 2009
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    Can anyone give insight to this, especially on the BootCamp partition?
     
    lanwarrior, Mar 27, 2009
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    Pretty much as you described. The only difference would be that Time Machine will partition your entire HD as HFS+, so you will have to run Bootcamp assistant to partition your HD before restoring your Bootcamp partition.
     
    Budding, Mar 27, 2009
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