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Missing Bootcamp Partition

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I am running OSX Mavericks with a Windows 7 Bootcamp partition on a MacBook Pro. I tried to clone my hard drive as follows: Backup drive with ATI 2015 for Mac, replace internal drive with and empty drive, boot from Acronis bootable media, restore ATI backup to new internal drive. ATI did restore OSX but it did not restore the Bootcamp partition.

On the "Select recovery source" screen I selected all four listed sources: EFI, Mac HDD, Recovery HD, BOOTCAMP.

The Destination side had multiple options available and I used the hightlighted options. However, after the restore completed, the internal HDD had only a single OSX partition. Neither Bootcamp, EFI, or the Recovery HD partitions were restored.

Can anyone tell me what I did wrong and how to clone a drive restoring all partitions?

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Hello LB,

could you please specify, how the new drive was formatted before you restored to it?
Can you try restore to your new drive, but before restoration process, please make it GPT unallocated (in bootalbe media you can find DiskUtility tool).

One more question:
were you using the Windows BootCamp partition via Parallels Desktop application at the moment of backup?

Kind regards,