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Cloning a Mac drive with a boot camp partition

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Hello,
I read on the Acronis site that Acronis True Image 2015 can back up the boot camp partition on Mac.
On my Mac OSx 10.10.1 I have a boot camp partition with Windows 7 (64bit).
I need to sobstitute my Mac HDD with a new SSD one.
Is it possible to clone the HDD using Acronis True Image 2015 ?
What are the procedure steps to clone the disk on Mac ?

Thank you,
Davide

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Logic would say that yes you could clone the disk.

Procedurally I would first make a full disk backup image using the boot media disk. If you have not created one yet you can do so using the Acronis Media Builder tool. If you have a spare HDD you could restore the backup image to for testing that would be ideal. If not then a validation followed by a mount test would suffice to insure your result is in fact restorable.

Once you have done that then you can attempt the clone again using the bootable media you created and following the clone procedures outlined in the Web Help section of this Forums Useful Links on the left side of each page.

I have cloned a Mini Mac 1TB 5400RPM to a 1TB 7200RPM. On the disk from the Mini Mac there was OSX and Bootcamp with windows 8. I did it from a Windows 8 PC with disk clone.

It went well and a booted the Mini Mac with the new 7200rpm.
Windows does not boot but OSX boots fine.

It does not seem like I can fix the boot or rebuild the BCD.
I tried to reinstall Windows but I can not us the partition for install. It seems like the disk is a GPT disk and not a MBR and therefore it will not install.

Is there a diffident when I clone with Disk Clone or Boot Media?

Nope, I am pretty sure cloning a disk with BC on it is not supported by Acronis TI (and I am too lazy to search their info for that).

Last time I did that with TI 2013 it had the same problem as you see now. I then used Paragon Hard Drive Suite and it worked.