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Cloning a Boot Camp Win 7 64-Bit to an External Drive


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Hi. I use the late iMac 2009. How do you clone a Boot Camp Win 7 64-bit to an External Drive? I'm experimenting on booting from an external drive using the rEfit boot manager which I boot from a CD. I've tested the rEfit and it sees the Windows from the external drive. The external drive is designed to be opened so you can replace the hard drive. Although rEfit could see and attempt to boot it, the drivers in that hard drive's Win 7 install is different because the PC where it was installed is different from the iMac. If I could clone the Boot Camp Win 7 install to the external drive and rEfit sees it, maybe I could boot Win 7 from a USB external drive. I don't think this would work that's why maybe to clone the Boot camp install would work more- if I use the Win 7 in Boot Camp to install Win 7 to the external drive, I don't think Win 7 would let you install it there. Thank you in advance.

 

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Alvin

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