Many have been able to restore from the compressed Winclone images and you can even do resizing of the image if you want to increase or decrease the space that Windows takes up on your hard drive. From everything I’ve read online, it apparently still works (most of the time). It was released as donation-ware but donations are no longer accepted so it’s effectively free now. Unfortunately, this is product is no longer supported.
There is exactly one easy-to-use tool that can do this: Winclone.
The solution is to make backup images of your Bootcamp partition while OSX is booted. This creates a catch-22 because in order run Windows under Bootcamp, you must first install OSX (which would immediately get wiped by the Windows 7 image recovery). Unfortunately, from my understanding there is no way to recover a Windows 7 backup image without totally formatting the hard drive and then recovering the image. Windows 7 has a fairly nice built-in backup feature. If you have a Windows OS on a Bootcamp partition then things get a bit trickier if you want to back that up too. You can also mount the image (it’s a sparsebundle) and grab individual files/directories if you like. You can also do efficient incremental backups (only updating the changes since the last backup) and do scheduling. This tool lets you make backups to an external or network drive. There are ways to do this with low level tools for free, but if you want to keep things easy then most people seem to recommend purchasing SuperDuper!. For instance, upon restoring you might find that some of your software is no longer licensed correctly (because some digital certificates aren’t backed up properly).īecause of this, many folks recommend making regular backup images, which are exact snapshots of your hard drive.
My understanding is that your Time Machine backup cannot be used for a recovery back to EXACTLY the state of your machine at the point of the last backup.
However, it’s not really the ideal way to recover from say a catastrophic hard drive failure. It works pretty well and has some nice features. If you have a Mac you are probably already familiar with Time Machine.
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