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I also explained to him about the additional Windows license but Im not sure that it got through to him. Needless to say that afterwards it was a simple case of plugging in the scanner and installing the drivers.Īfter my colleague returned I recommended that he should invest in Parallels or VMWare as both of them would let him start from his Bootcamp partition in OSX and save him having to reboot (I initially tried to get him to return the scanner but he didnt want to).
#WINCLONE EXTERNAL WINDOWS DRIVERS#
I have to admit that at this stage I was a little surprised as I expected XP to complain about different drivers or something but it was quite happy, so kudos to Apple for the Bootcamp drivers and to TwoVolcanos for Winclone. Once complete I rebooted into Windows and that was that - everything was working just as it did on his Macbook. Then using Winclone I restored his Windows XP image from his Macbook into the new, empty partition on his iMac, the whole process went smoothly.Once done I created a partition via Bootcamp that was the same size as the one on his Macbook (Ive since found out that you can also create the partition via Winclone but Ive yet to try this).Next, I connect the drive to his iMac, installed winclone there and also downloaded and installed Bootcamp.I installed Winclone onto his Macbook and backed up his Windows XP partition onto an external drive. On opening the box of discs he'd brought with him though, I soon found out that there was no windows CD inside - argh. He seemed quite happy with this solution and left me to it.
#WINCLONE EXTERNAL WINDOWS INSTALL#
So I offered to install Bootcamp for him and put the scanner there. I offered to install Parallels or VMWare for him and to set the scanner up on there but after forking out for the computer plus scanner he was broke. A search on the internet just to be sure, revealed that there were no drivers for it etc, so it looked like it could be a bit of a dead end. He'd also bought a scanner that was Windows only. I found out though, purely by chance how flexible this utility is, as an example let me share a story with you, I had a user come into my office with his Macbook and a new iMac that he'd bought. So far it has been working for me flawlessly, Ive had no issues backing up and restoring Windows partitions on my Macbook Pro. While this looks like an excellent option at the time it was beyond my finances, so I found other ways around the problem.Ī couple of weeks ago though I came across this - Winclone which is purpose built utility to backup and restore your bootcamp partition from OS X, for free. I searched high and low for a while and the only option that I found to do it was this Cop圜atX. Not to knock any of these articles but when I want to back up my computer, I'd typically like to back up everything, which means if youre using bootcamp even the windows partition.
#WINCLONE EXTERNAL WINDOWS HOW TO#
Lots of places on the net deal with methods on how to back up your main OS X partition using a variety of utilities such as Superduper and Carboncopycloner.
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