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After several months of running Windows 8.1 in a Parallels VM, I finally tried Boot Camp. I had an extra license leftover from a Microsoft sale last year. So I finally pulled the trigger and installed it in it's own Boot Camp partition. And what a difference it makes!
That said, I've grown very fond of Time Machine and full disk cloning that I can do with OS X. So I tried to do something similar with Windows 8.1 on Boot Camp. I tried Macrium Reflect free edition, and decided to do a backup and restore from an image as a test. I was able to restore the image okay, but it would not boot. And the Macrium support forums, I found out, are only for registered users and not for free or trial edition users. And would think that they would also support pre-sales buyers.
I also have looked into Clonezilla and I've already made a boot disk on a USB thumb drive. It appears to be all textbased with no real GUI.
Then there is Winclone. Just saw another member endorse it on a different thread in this forum. At $29, it will probably be the route I'll go. But I prefer not to have a Mac only solution. I'd like to have a tool that I can use in a purely Windows environment.
My goal is to be able to experiment with my Boot Camp partition, and be able to completely restore it if something goes wrong. In fact after the Macrium Reflect restore failed, I reinstalled Windows 8.1 twice yesterday. The first reinstall failed. I never want to go through that again.
Parallels desktop supports running a Boot Camp partition through a VM. It would be great to run the same Windows environment with and without OS X integration. In case something goes wrong, I don't want to go through yet another clean reinstall, with hours of reinstalling my favorite software.
Can anyone here comment on Macrium Reflect with Boot Camp?
That said, I've grown very fond of Time Machine and full disk cloning that I can do with OS X. So I tried to do something similar with Windows 8.1 on Boot Camp. I tried Macrium Reflect free edition, and decided to do a backup and restore from an image as a test. I was able to restore the image okay, but it would not boot. And the Macrium support forums, I found out, are only for registered users and not for free or trial edition users. And would think that they would also support pre-sales buyers.
I also have looked into Clonezilla and I've already made a boot disk on a USB thumb drive. It appears to be all textbased with no real GUI.
Then there is Winclone. Just saw another member endorse it on a different thread in this forum. At $29, it will probably be the route I'll go. But I prefer not to have a Mac only solution. I'd like to have a tool that I can use in a purely Windows environment.
My goal is to be able to experiment with my Boot Camp partition, and be able to completely restore it if something goes wrong. In fact after the Macrium Reflect restore failed, I reinstalled Windows 8.1 twice yesterday. The first reinstall failed. I never want to go through that again.
Parallels desktop supports running a Boot Camp partition through a VM. It would be great to run the same Windows environment with and without OS X integration. In case something goes wrong, I don't want to go through yet another clean reinstall, with hours of reinstalling my favorite software.
Can anyone here comment on Macrium Reflect with Boot Camp?