If you use BootCamp, then you’ve probably heard of or are using Winclone, which will make a full drive backup of your BootCamp partition. Not merely handy when Windows wipes itself out, but also if you need to change drives.<\/p>\n
Having a Winclone backup is very reassuring. (Lord knows I’d love to have something so simple for “real” PCs!)<\/p>\n
That said, you may easily be lulled into a sense of false security: Winclone will back up your BootCamp partition -as is.-<\/p>\n
What that means is that even if your partition isn’t really 100% right, Winclone will happily back it up.<\/p>\n
What it -won’t do- with such images is -restore- them… the whole purpose in the first place.<\/p>\n
So, here’s what you need to do (and if you didn’t do this the last time you used Winclone, you should probably do it now):<\/p>\n
Do this from a BootCamp boot (not from Fusion; not from Parallels):<\/p>\n
Boot directly into your Bootcamp OS (XP, Vista, whatever). Run chkdsk on the partition. (There are several ways to do this for each OSen. Command Line; Properties and others. Check online or check your manual.) Run chkdsk again.<\/p>\n
(Yes: run it twice… or until it shows a properly working drive.)<\/p>\n
Then boot into the bootcamp partition. Once fully booted, choose “shutdown” from the OS. and then do that again (Boot\/shutdown.)<\/p>\n
NOW do the Winclone backup.<\/p>\n
And once you do a successful restore, boot into it a couple of times so that everything “settles down.”<\/p>\n
hth<\/p>\n
Tracy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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