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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?

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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.

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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

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Thanks guys! :D

 

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? :)

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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.

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@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 ...

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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:

 

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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.

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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.

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