Hansaplast Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 I have my Hackintosh running in Dual-boot with Windows XP (Ultimate/retail) and would like to make a disk image of that drive - as a backup. I tried Acronis (9) but it keeps coming back with an unknown error ... Anyone have experience with making an image like this and actually got it to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hansaplast Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share Posted February 17, 2007 Is there nobody out there that made an image of their hard disk after a successful setup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hansaplast Posted February 21, 2007 Author Share Posted February 21, 2007 I see people posting these solutions: 1) Acronis TrueImage Anyone got this to work? 2) SuperDuper Will this make a full image (ie. MBR + all partitions) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntsmkfob Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Is there nobody out there that made an image of their hard disk after a successful setup? If you boot from an OSX DVD, select install then you can use DiskUtilty to create an image. I back up to a USB drive formatted to HFS+. You can restore it again using DiskUtility to another partition of a different size if necessary. Running it under VMWare is less successful - I get an error that "The asr helper task has failed", but running native works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Yeah just use Disk Utility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikoman Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 First i did use hiren's boot with norton ghost 11 for backing my disk up...but , image was created from whole partition not just used disk spase. So from 4gb of files (clean install) was 30gb image BTW Acronics will do the same The best way is like was wrote be4.....disk utilities > new image ..etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hansaplast Posted February 23, 2007 Author Share Posted February 23, 2007 Thanks guys! I tried Acronis Trueimage Home 10.0, and it made a full backup of my HDD (MBR, partitions, the works) and yes it didn't compress the MacOSX partition (identifies it as a ShagOS swap disk?). So I'm having a 40 something Gb backup file sitting on a USB disk. I'll try disk utility, but can it completely backup my entire hdd? or just per partition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxuser33 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 (edited) Prepare your partiton right! Optional : monolingual, defrag essential: remove trash (secure), clear the free space using disk-util! remove swapfile (applejack, Onyx,...) acronis will copy each bit if a sector is not filled with zero's! Pesonaly did a backup of a fresh install to 140 GB, backup consumpted ca. 4 GB. Search the german forum if you are familar with. Edited February 23, 2007 by tuxuser33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 Arconis true image works great with both XP and OSX partitions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hansaplast Posted February 24, 2007 Author Share Posted February 24, 2007 @tususer33; how do I set unused sectors on a used partition to zero? Acronis indeed copies the entire partition - kind-a big for a backup. Would disk-utility be able to restore the entire disk, including mbr? Like I said; I have a nice setup, OS X / Vista, with dual boot ... and would like to be able to restore that in the future ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spotswood Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 Use NetRestore it'll create an ASR image, works fine on JaS 10.4.8 (v1p+Defiant). Spotswood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxuser33 Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 (edited) I'm talking about Acronis TrueImage 10.0 HomeEdition EDS Purchased directly at Acronis Website, did not make me a poor man. received the downloadlink. Made the CD by myself. Zero out free space: For your interist: tried today 1. copy a hole OSX-Partition sector by sector using DiskDirector, o.k. had to fix the bootsector with fdisk, boot works 2. made a backup using Acronis TrueImage Rescue Disk prepared the partiton optimal as I said before (incl. full defragmentation). Unfortunaly it did not work (not anymore?) as mentioned. Or I was wrong to remind the results got some weeks before. TI mades a backup consumpting the same size the source has. (due to RAW-disk without filesystem) But you can split the backup-files into chunks of i.e. 4,5 GB. Store them to DVD. Edited February 25, 2007 by tuxuser33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasingcharlie Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Silver Keeper; hands down. Sometimes you have to make the new hard disk partition active but that's a small thing. Once I got everything working, I tried ALL of the solutions and Silver Keeper works the best. http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/ (and, it's free) charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leon2046 Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 try this:http://www.hddoctor.net/best-disk-image-softwares-2009/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinet Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 Hello to all. A-To make clones of your start up hard disks from your Hackintosh desktop: CloneTool Hatchery H1 This tool allows you to make perfect clones using different approaches. Hatchery uses 3 different scripts, one of them specially designed for running in a Hackintosh environment. And It's free. B-To make clones of your start up hard disks from your Windows XP desktop: Avanquest Perfect Image This tool makes a perfect image of your hard disk, cloning by clusters. It's commercial but won't make you a forcloser. I've been using these tools for 2 years and I have no problem at all, using a Tiger 10.4.10 and XP Pro SP2. See my signature. Hope this helps anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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