Clone Mac Drive With Boot Camp

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Introduction

The focus of this document is on the process of migrating an existing Windows 10 Boot Camp partition from the internal drive to a bootable external drive using Winclone 7.

Oct 31, 2014  4. Install a new fresh Mac OS on an external USB or Thunderbolt drive (or use CarbonCopyCloner to get a copy of internal Mac OS) 5. Check the new external Mac OS by rebooting to it. If Ok, reboot to internal again. Run WinClone 4 and make an image file from the Boot Camp to an image file to your desktop. Jan 20, 2015 Stellar Drive Clone V3.0 is another application that clones NTFS (Boot Camp) partition of your Mac to ExFAT partition. Both Macintosh HD and Boot Camp partition can be cloned using this tool. However, after clone you cannot boot from Windows partition.

Storage and Migration Scenarios for Windows 10 using Winclone 7

Friend, I was also in the same situation one week ago. But, in order to do this job easily and effectively, I used software Stellar Drive Clone v2.5 that support to SSD and create bootable clone including MBR partition. It clone Mac hard drive to SSD in few clicks without interrupting your work. Nov 30, 2019  While it's still possible to create an exact copy (a clone) of any drive connected directly to your Mac, changes to Disk Utility have created extra steps when you use Disk Utility’s Restore function to clone your startup drive. Nov 30, 2019 While it's still possible to create an exact copy (a clone) of any drive connected directly to your Mac, changes to Disk Utility have created extra steps when you use Disk Utility’s Restore function to clone your startup drive.

  1. Nov 12, 2019  Why Clone Your Mac Bootable Drive? It allows you to have an external hard drive that is a copy of your internal drive that you can boot from should the worst happens and your Mac’s internal drive fails. It is a way of cloning your internal drive to an external drive should it be a hard drive or SSD (Solid State Drive) that you plan to replace your internal drive with.
  2. May 31, 2017  Migrating/cloning an Apple MAC OSX with Windows 7 / 8 / 10 Bootcamp partition to another hard or solid state (HDD / SSD) disk drive (Updated March 2018). Clone the Mac OSX Partition from the old drive to the new drive. Move Boot Camp to a replacement drive.
  • Migrate Boot Camp from internal to external bootable drive
  • Run multiple bootable Windows 10 partitions on internal Intel Mac drive
  • Run multiple bootable Windows 10 partitions on external drive attached to Intel Mac
  • Migrate Windows 10 from a PC to Intel Mac
  • Migrate Windows 10 from Boot Camp to a PC that supports EFI mode
  • Create Winclone image of a Windows 10 PC drive
  • Restore a Windows 10 Winclone image to a PC drive for use in a PC that supports EFI mode

Requirements

In order to move your Bootcamp partition from your Mac to an external drive, it must meet the following requirements:

  1. Intel Based Mac with EFI version 2 or greater (see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1237)
  2. USB or Thunderbolt external drive (USB flash drives not supported)
  3. Bootcamp partition with Windows 10 or later

All procedures outlined have been tested on Windows 10 1803 (October Update).

The following Mac models were tested with the procedure:

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  • MacBook Pro (2018)
  • MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011), 10.13.5, MacBook Air 4,2
  • Mac Mini (Mid 2014)
  • iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), 10.14, iMac 13,2
  • Mac Mini (Mid 2011), 10.13.4, Mac Mini 5,1 (legacy)
  • MacBook (12-inch, Early 2015)
  • MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011), 10.13.5 (legacy)
  • iMac (Retina 5k, 27”, Late 2015), 10.13.6, iMac 17,1

The following external USB-C hard drives where used:

Both external SSD were connected via a USB-C to USB-C cable, or USB-C to USB-A depending on ports available on the Mac.

Prepare External Drive in macOS using Disk Utility

Before migrating Windows 10 Boot Camp to a bootable external drive, the drive must be formatted with the GUID partition scheme and partitioned with an ExFAT partition. Keep in mind that this process will erase all existing data on the external drive, so make sure to back up any critical data elsewhere before proceeding.

Attach the external drive and open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.

Select the external drive in the left side column. At the bottom of the Disk Utility window will be information about the disk. If the Partition Map is already set as “GUID Partition Table” you may skip to the section below “Add Partition.”

Create GUID Partition Table

Under the view menu in Disk Utility, select “Show All Devices”

  1. Make sure the external drive (and not the volume) is selected.
  2. Click the erase button in the toolbar. If you do not see the Scheme option, verify that the disk is selected in the left hand column and not a partition.
  3. Give the volume a name, format as ExFAT (this will be changed during migration to NTFS), and GUID Partition Map for Scheme.

THIS WILL ERASE THE ENTIRE SELECTED DISK! Click Erase if you are sure.

Add Partition

After the disk has a GUID Partition table, you can leave it as a single ExFAT partition or add other partitions. If the external drive has a Mac (HFS+) partition, you can use Disk Utility to create a ExFAT partition from some of the free space from the Mac partition. To do so:

  1. Select the Mac Partition and click “+”
  2. Drag the size handle to make the size you want
  3. Give the partition a name and select ExFAT as the Format.

A Note About File System Formats

The partition on the external drive was created as ExFAT because Disk Utility cannot natively create NTFS formatted partitions. Winclone can select destinations as ExFAT and will overwrite the ExFAT format during the migration and the result will be an NTFS formatted Windows file system.

Prepare the Boot Camp Partition

To successfully migrate the Boot Camp partition from the internal volume to an external volume, it is recommended that you prepare Windows with Sysprep prior to booting to the migrated copy of Windows on the external drive. Since Sysprep can fail and leave the Windows install in an unknown state, it is also recommended that you create a Winclone image of the Windows install on the internal partition prior to running Sysprep. Alternatively, you can run Sysprep after restore from the external volume in a Virtual Machine such as VMWare Fusion.

To run Sysprep on the internal volume, see this article.

Migration with Winclone

Once the partition has been created in Disk Utility, quit out of Disk Utility. Verify that the newly created partition is visible as a mounted volume on the Mac desktop. Open Winclone and select Volume to Volume Cloning. Select the following options:

  1. Select source volume as the internal Boot Camp partition.
  2. Select the destination as the ExFAT volume you created on the external volume.
  3. Click Clone.

If you get a error message about a block size mismatch, create a Winclone image and then restore the image to the external volume. See the articles below for creating and restoring a Winclone image:

Run Sysprep in a VM

Clone Mac Drive With Boot Camp Windows 10

If you did not run Sysprep prior to creating the image, you can run Sysprep in a Virtual Machine such as VMWare Fusion. See the article here.

Booting into Windows

Once the migration process is complete, restart while holding the Option key and the new external Boot Camp volume will be available for startup.

Tested Hardware

External booting was verified by the following process:

  1. Windows 10 (1809 October Update) was installed via Boot Camp Assistant.
  2. The Mac was booted into Windows 10, and Boot Camp drivers for that model were installed.
  3. After the reboot required after Boot Camp drivers were installed, Sysprep was run and Windows shut down.
  4. The Mac was booted into macOS and Winclone 7 installed and launched.
  5. An ExFAT partition was created on the external drive (GUID partition table).
  6. Boot Camp was migrated to the external partition using the Volume to Volume feature of Winclone 7. If a block size message was shown, a file-based image was created and the image was restored to the external partition.
  7. Using Disk Utility, the Boot Camp partition was deleted from the internal drive.
  8. The Mac was then booted to Windows on the external volume and verified to work.

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Incremental Image Scheduling

Incremental Imaging has been updated to run in the background and the scheduling options been greatly expanded. The main Winclone app no longer needs to be running during incremental imaging and you can now schedule hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly schedule.

Security

Winclone 8 works great with new security features of Catalina. Any images stored in protected areas (Desktop, Documents, External Volumes) can be used to restore to a Boot Camp partition. Winclone 8 has also been tested and is fully compatible with the new read-only system volume in Catalina.

  • Imaging and restoring Boot Camp
  • Supports macOS 10.14 Mojave and 10.15 Catalina
  • Enhanced security compatibility with macOS Catalina
  • Scheduled background updates of Winclone images
  • Supports restoring images created with prior versions of Winclone (Windows 7 and above)
  • Supports restoring images to DOS-FAT32, ExFAT and NTFS formatted volumes
  • Supports restoring images to attached volumes (bootable depending on hardware and Windows version)
  • Supports saving to external or network storage
  • Fast incremental imaging
  • Support for APFS and core storage volumes
  • Detection and reporting of inconsistent GPT and MBR boot records
  • Supports local disk-to-disk migration
  • Shrink/expand Boot Camp file system
  • Options for “make legacy bootable” and “make EFI bootable” (Windows 7 and above)
  • Progress bar estimate and percentage complete
  • Alert sound for success or fail operation
  • In-app links to related support resources
  • Updated user interface
  • Notarized for enhanced security and compatibility with macOS Catalina