Unclear on restore ?
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I am uncertain about restoring an image. I wish to make my Bootcamp partition larger. I understand how to make the image, delete the Bootcamp partition.
It is when you make a new partition size I am unsure about. Do you do this through Bootcamp Assistant ? Or simply in Disk Utility ?
If you do it through Bootcamp assist - it asks a download of latest support software as well as an Install for Win 7. I'm not sure where I would go from there !
The instructions seem fairly vague in regards the actual process of installing the clone image to an expanded Bootcamp partition.
The instructions seem to indicate simply using the disk utility and partition tab. Is this correct or should you be using Bootcamp assist ? Anyone have any clear idea on this ?
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Here is how I did it... I used boot camp assistant. I chose not to download the latest drivers since my backed up windows/bootcamp environment already contained the latest bootcamp drivers at the time I backed it up. So, I unchecked that box.
I kept the "Create Bootcamp partition and Install Windows" box checked. Before Bootcamp Assistant allowed me to continue beyond that it requires that it sees a Windows Install disk inserted in my CD drive. So, after I get out my Win7 Installation Cd and insert it into the CD drive, I press continue.
After a quick second or two the Mac reboots (at this point your new bootcamp partition has been created). I hold down the alt/option key, otherwise it will boot up via the Win7 Install CD. Then I'm rebooted into OS X again and now I have a bootcamp partition ready to restore onto via winclone.
The alternative, as Tim mentioned, is to use Disk Utility to create your FAT32 partition. One thing I'm not sure of though... if we do it that way do we need to tell Disk Utility to also set it up with an MBR? Or does the bootcamp img that we are restoring already contain that?
Thanks,
Ben
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