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<blockquote data-quote="MiniMax" data-source="post: 1546832" data-attributes="member: 314017"><p>I have a Mac mini with both SSD (256 GB) and HD (500GB). I want to clone the SSD to the HD as a fall back solution if OS X or Bootcamp crash. The cloning of OS X 10.8.5 has worked flawlessly several times using Carbon Copy Cloner.</p><p></p><p>But so far I did not manage to restore a single Windows 7 Pro Bootcamp partition to the Drives. I tried Winclone in the new version: It restored but gave my a partition error in the end and the partition was useless.</p><p></p><p>And then I tried Paragon. I have bought Hard Drive Manager 2012 Suite and have made several Rescue USB sticks and Windows PE Boot sticks and DVDs. But whereas they perfectly boot other Windows machines, they don't make it with the Mac. The Recovery Sticks hang in the first screen, neither Mouse nor Enter work. And the Boot DVD hangs after completing the progress bar "Windows is loading files".</p><p></p><p>What "worked" was Clonezilla: I made a Live Linux USB stick and simply mirrored the whole SSD to the internal HD. The HD-side works now, both OS boot, OS X as well as Windows 7. But I lost Windows 7 Botcamp on my SSD. Only the Mac partion still boots into OS X.</p><p></p><p>Now even a genuin Windows 7 boot-DVD hangs with wich I wanted to fix posible bootloader errors. It too freezes with "Windows is loading files".</p><p></p><p>What went wrong? What can I do?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MiniMax, post: 1546832, member: 314017"] I have a Mac mini with both SSD (256 GB) and HD (500GB). I want to clone the SSD to the HD as a fall back solution if OS X or Bootcamp crash. The cloning of OS X 10.8.5 has worked flawlessly several times using Carbon Copy Cloner. But so far I did not manage to restore a single Windows 7 Pro Bootcamp partition to the Drives. I tried Winclone in the new version: It restored but gave my a partition error in the end and the partition was useless. And then I tried Paragon. I have bought Hard Drive Manager 2012 Suite and have made several Rescue USB sticks and Windows PE Boot sticks and DVDs. But whereas they perfectly boot other Windows machines, they don't make it with the Mac. The Recovery Sticks hang in the first screen, neither Mouse nor Enter work. And the Boot DVD hangs after completing the progress bar "Windows is loading files". What "worked" was Clonezilla: I made a Live Linux USB stick and simply mirrored the whole SSD to the internal HD. The HD-side works now, both OS boot, OS X as well as Windows 7. But I lost Windows 7 Botcamp on my SSD. Only the Mac partion still boots into OS X. Now even a genuin Windows 7 boot-DVD hangs with wich I wanted to fix posible bootloader errors. It too freezes with "Windows is loading files". What went wrong? What can I do? [/QUOTE]
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