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I'd set my Boot Camp partition to boot EFI, but I don't think my MBP will EFI boot Windows. But I never gave it a second thought, because Windows 8 came installed. I've got a Windows 8 tablet, I need to sell, that boots EFI. It was a real education learning about GPT partitions. I reinstalled OS X from a flash drive and restored from my most recent Time Machine backup.
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I had to download and install gdisk on the cloned drive to see what was going on. I do have Super Duper and used a drive cloned by it to determine what was going on. Otherwise I would have never had the time to spend on Boot Camp recovery like this. I got let go just after Thanksgiving, which is not a good time of the year to look for work. I am a MS ASP.NET web app developer by trade. I have made to the second interview level on one position, and have another direct interview next week.
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I have been using the 5.0 drivers without any apparent issues. But that is with the caveat that the current version might not work with Windows 8.1.īTW: there are now new Boot Camp 5.1 drivers on the Apple website, which now include Windows 8.1 support. While I did not use gdisk to repair the partitions, I did use it to diagnose it.īottom line: I now recommend Winclone for Boot Camp backup and restore. Again the gdisk command line utility was an eye opener. I went through a lot of grief discovering issues with the Microsoft included System Image Backup. Winclone support let me download version 4.4 beta which corrects Windows 8.1 booting issues some users were having. I did buy Winclone, but the current version 4.3.1 did NOT work for me out of the box. Fortunately, I had the Windows Boot Camp partition backed up with Winclone. I failed to make any Time Machine backups the past two weeks and lost it all. And gdisk reported my drive had a GPT/MBR mismatch.Įventually I lost my whole hard drive. It includes a command line utility called gdisk. There is a suite of utilities called GPT fdisk created by Rod Smith, who also created rEFInd. I mentioned it in a previous post in this topic. While it seemed to work, it really was NOT. I've spent several days trying a Microsoft solution included in Windows 8.1 called System Image Restore. In case something goes wrong, I don't want to go through yet another clean reinstall, with hours of reinstalling my favorite software.Ĭan anyone here comment on Macrium Reflect with Boot Camp? It would be great to run the same Windows environment with and without OS X integration. Parallels desktop supports running a Boot Camp partition through a VM. In fact after the Macrium Reflect restore failed, I reinstalled Windows 8.1 twice yesterday. My goal is to be able to experiment with my Boot Camp partition, and be able to completely restore it if something goes wrong. I'd like to have a tool that I can use in a purely Windows environment. But I prefer not to have a Mac only solution. At $29, it will probably be the route I'll go. Just saw another member endorse it on a different thread in this forum. It appears to be all textbased with no real GUI. I also have looked into Clonezilla and I've already made a boot disk on a USB thumb drive.
And would think that they would also support pre-sales buyers.
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And the Macrium support forums, I found out, are only for registered users and not for free or trial edition users. I was able to restore the image okay, but it would not boot. I tried Macrium Reflect free edition, and decided to do a backup and restore from an image as a test. So I tried to do something similar with Windows 8.1 on Boot Camp.
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That said, I've grown very fond of Time Machine and full disk cloning that I can do with OS X. So I finally pulled the trigger and installed it in it's own Boot Camp partition.
I had an extra license leftover from a Microsoft sale last year. After several months of running Windows 8.1 in a Parallels VM, I finally tried Boot Camp.
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