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<blockquote data-quote="Lbatson21" data-source="post: 1133047" data-attributes="member: 169331"><p>Ok. I'm so totally lost on this issue I'm not even sure I put the topic in the right section. What I'm trying to do is create a clone/exact copy of my current HD so I can then use that copy to install onto a new HD. Sounds easy but here's the trick. I running bootcamp with Windows 7 and files on that partition i dont want to lose. From what I understand, time machine only copies OSX and doesnt even touch my windows partition. I would like to just completely copy the entire drive and then reload that info onto a new drive. I found this website, <a href="http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/" target="_blank">EASEUS Disk Copy: Free Disk Copy, Disk Clone, Partition Copy Software. Sector by Sector for hard drive backup freeware.</a> , that's cross platform but I don't know anything about mac Bios or any of that and I'm not sure it would work. I guess I could always just save all of the windows files and move them back after reinstalling windows but that would take a long time. I also thought about just trying to create a recovery disk for the windows partition. Will bootcamp work with a recovery disk? If so that might be the easiest option if the easeus program linked above doesn't work. And then I would need to know whats the best way to copy the Windows partition to run as a recovery disk. Any help on this would be appreciated. If there's a link for this type of problem too that would be cool, I just couldn't find it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lbatson21, post: 1133047, member: 169331"] Ok. I'm so totally lost on this issue I'm not even sure I put the topic in the right section. What I'm trying to do is create a clone/exact copy of my current HD so I can then use that copy to install onto a new HD. Sounds easy but here's the trick. I running bootcamp with Windows 7 and files on that partition i dont want to lose. From what I understand, time machine only copies OSX and doesnt even touch my windows partition. I would like to just completely copy the entire drive and then reload that info onto a new drive. I found this website, [url=http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/]EASEUS Disk Copy: Free Disk Copy, Disk Clone, Partition Copy Software. Sector by Sector for hard drive backup freeware.[/url] , that's cross platform but I don't know anything about mac Bios or any of that and I'm not sure it would work. I guess I could always just save all of the windows files and move them back after reinstalling windows but that would take a long time. I also thought about just trying to create a recovery disk for the windows partition. Will bootcamp work with a recovery disk? If so that might be the easiest option if the easeus program linked above doesn't work. And then I would need to know whats the best way to copy the Windows partition to run as a recovery disk. Any help on this would be appreciated. If there's a link for this type of problem too that would be cool, I just couldn't find it. [/QUOTE]
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