cloning and restoring bootcamp

so i have figured out how i can clone my bootcamp partition very easily (disk utility in mac osx onto external harddrive) but how do i restore that on a new computers bootcamp utilty via external hard drive? also will the clone be exactly like the old partition? will all my documents and programs still be there? if u cant tell already i am not very experienced with computers but i am good enough that i was able to partition and do all that. when you reply just keep in mind my experience level. thanks everyone

Yet to get any form of cloning Windows 7 to work. Just do a clean install and run Bootcamp from within OS X and allow Bootcamp to set up and format the partition.

ok im a little confused... i re installed bootcamp and made a partition on my new computer. how do i use the clone on my external hard drive to restore it onto my new partition? in other words, i have a clone now, what do i do with it to restore it onto my partition????

i made a clone with carbon copy cloner. what do i do now???

ShivumDOui said:

i made a clone with carbon copy cloner. what do i do now???

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To make an image of Windows 7 you either have to use the Windows 7 built in imaging software or you can use WinClone which doesn't always work right.

Carbon Copy Cloner does not copy Boot Camp partitions, it only works for cloning HFS Extended Journaled partitions.

At this point in time, I would take Harry's advice and start over.

And let Bootcamp make the partition. And Winclone has never worked yet in three or four tries, and is no longer supported by the developers.

well carbon copy cloner actually managed to clone BOOTCAMP but i dont know how i can restore it. it says bootcamp is write only. i tried macfuse and ntfs 3g but it kept saying macfuse wasnt installed when it was...

As stated above, CCC only works with HFS Extended Journaled partitions. It may have copied it along with the remainder of the OS X partition but there is no way to restore it.

Windows 7 will actually make a restorable image for you but it requires an external drive formatted to NTFS. Restoring it is straight forward but it means booting with the Windows 7 DVD and direct the image to the correct partition.

OK SWEET! I have a external hard drive formatted to NTFS... what do i do now??? how can i make that image??? how do i restore it??? will all my programs and things still b there??? i dont care if i lose everything on my current partition its all messed up, i tried to copy paste but it messed everything up

and i have my windows 7 cd... so i just need to know how to do this... and what all does it restore?? everything or just my documents? cuz everywhere ive looked it says that the windows thing doesnt restore everything. its my last opion so im up to try it out, its better than a fresh start at least.

You don't. Time for a reinstall as if you were just starting out with Bootcamp.

ok well i guess ill just have a fresh start. i didnt have anything too important itll just b a little bit of a pain to reinstall most stuff. is there no way to just make it go back to the way it was before i copy pasted all my programs into program files program files x86 and users???