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<blockquote data-quote="PixelHermit" data-source="post: 1189526" data-attributes="member: 192924"><p>I agree, but would like to add that I've experienced one (1) rather big mishap using the built-in Win 7 backup solution on a Mac. The setup was an iMac 24" 2.93GHz running Mac OS X 10.5.7 and Boot Camp. The 100GB 32-bit Windows 7 Home Premium setup was backed up using the built-in Windows imaging utility to an external USB-connected 1TB Seagate disk, formatted using Windows 7 to NTFS on an MBR table.</p><p> </p><p>After some time I needed to "revive" my Win 7 installation: I had installed and uninstalled a lot of software I use for testing of my software projects, and Windows become more and more sluggish. After booting from the Windows installation DVD I chose the "Repair your computer" option, and used the USB backup as source. After that the computer booted into (the internal) Win 7 without any problem, and all seemed fine. Unfortunately the Windows repair software also corrupted my Mac's HFS Plus partition in the process, and as it turned out I was happy that I had a backup of my Mac OS X partition as well, and not only the Windows one...</p><p> </p><p>This might have been a one-time lapse: since then I've used the Win 7 imaging/cloning utility a couple of times, and on different Mac hardware setups, and it's always been working as expected. However, even one failure is one too many, if the user haven't got a fairly recent backup.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PixelHermit, post: 1189526, member: 192924"] I agree, but would like to add that I've experienced one (1) rather big mishap using the built-in Win 7 backup solution on a Mac. The setup was an iMac 24" 2.93GHz running Mac OS X 10.5.7 and Boot Camp. The 100GB 32-bit Windows 7 Home Premium setup was backed up using the built-in Windows imaging utility to an external USB-connected 1TB Seagate disk, formatted using Windows 7 to NTFS on an MBR table. After some time I needed to "revive" my Win 7 installation: I had installed and uninstalled a lot of software I use for testing of my software projects, and Windows become more and more sluggish. After booting from the Windows installation DVD I chose the "Repair your computer" option, and used the USB backup as source. After that the computer booted into (the internal) Win 7 without any problem, and all seemed fine. Unfortunately the Windows repair software also corrupted my Mac's HFS Plus partition in the process, and as it turned out I was happy that I had a backup of my Mac OS X partition as well, and not only the Windows one... This might have been a one-time lapse: since then I've used the Win 7 imaging/cloning utility a couple of times, and on different Mac hardware setups, and it's always been working as expected. However, even one failure is one too many, if the user haven't got a fairly recent backup. [/QUOTE]
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