Winclone bootcamp1/30/2024 Visit the Twocanoes Community Forums to view previously answered questions about this process. To add the drivers, follow the support article “ Resolving INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE Error after restoring Winclone image “. If you are migrating from an older Mac to a newer Mac (like one with a T2 co-processor) and get a “inaccessible boot device” error when booting into Windows, the image that was restored may not have the required drivers for the new hardware.Restore the Image back to your Boot Camp partition. Step by step instructions are available at the Restore a Winclone Image support article.Step by step instructions are available at the Creating a Boot Camp Partition support article. Create a Boot Camp partition on your new Mac.Step by step instructions are available at the Create Image from Volume support article. Create an Winclone image of your current Boot Camp partition.So now I have the options to run Mac OS on my internal drive, run Mac OS on my external together with Parallels Desktop and Windows 8.Using Winclone to migrate your Boot Camp partition to a new Mac is easy. Simply make a Winclone image of your existing Boot Camp partition, then restore that image to a new Boot Camp partition. Thats how I did it, might be easier way but at least I’m a happy camper now :-) When in your internal Mac OS, run the Boot Camp app again and make sure only the Remove Win8xx is checked, run and the Boot Camp will be removed on your Mac drive. When all seems to work ok reboot again and this time to your internal Mac OS.ġ0. When running Windows goto your USB-stick open the Boot Camp folder and run the setup.exe. If all ok your computer will start on Windows on your external drive. Reboot the Mac, and when screen goes black, press and hold the alt-button until the startup drives is shown, select the new Windows disk on your external drive. Run WinClone again and choose your new image-file, and target your new FAT-partition on the external drive.ĩ. Select the new partition and rename it and choose to format it to MS-DOS FAT. Run Disk Utility and select your external drive, Choose the Partition tab, click the + below the main (only partition), select the space between the now two partitions and drag upp or down until lower parts size is at least a tad bigger than the original Boot Camp volume or bigger. Run WinClone 4 and make an image file from the Boot Camp to an image file to your desktop.ħ. Check the new external Mac OS by rebooting to it. Normally it would restore as the same size as the original but WinClone does let you expand during the restore. Install a new fresh Mac OS on an external USB or Thunderbolt drive (or use CarbonCop圜loner to get a copy of internal Mac OS)ĥ. I have used WinClone to backup an existing smaller Boot Camp partition on one Mac and then restore it on a larger new Mac with a larger Boot Camp partition. Test-run and configure and add all updates for Windows and installing an Antivirus app is also good to do.Ĥ. Run Boot Camp on internal (original) drive, including make a USB stick drivers for Win (Can take forever on a slow USB stick, but will get there) Install Windows from DVD or similar (I did from a bought DVD, no OEM allowed)ģ. Update all Mac OS updates from Mac App Store.Ģ. Take your time and be sure to choose the right drive and partition so you don’t mess everything up.ġ. if you are doing things on the external unmount the internal. during the different stages unmount the drive not working on i.e. Remember before you start: Make sure you have updated backups on everything involved, unmount all not necessary drives. Mac OS Yosemite and Win8.1 on external Thunderbolt/USB 3 drive.
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