I’ve been using Winclone, a Mac OS app, to back-up my Boot Camp – Windows 7 partition onto a HFS+ (Mac OS compatible) external disk drive. However tonight it failed, early in the attempt, repeatedly. Also when I asked it to look for updates, it failed to connect to the internet, whereas I could access websites OK over Safari. Searching round, I found a later version, downloaded it, deleted the existing one (2.2) and installed the new one (2.3).
The new one similarly failed to access the internet. On the other hand it did not fail early on in the process. I aborted it anyhow, for reasons that will become clear (below).
Web-Search:
- Google: [winclone alternative]
- Several posts stated:
- Mixed experiences when using Winclone under Snow Leopard and the impossibility of using it (straight) under Lion)
- To minimise problems under Snow Leopard, [Compressed] should be disabled. Also select [.dmg] format.
- This product (Winclone) was no longer being developed
- Best Example:
- http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1046365
- Link to further information: http://www.google.com/search?q=http://twocanoes.com/discontinued/winclone/slwin7.html+site:forums.macrumors.com
- <<I suspect that a big part of the change may actually be changes to hdiutil in the point releases of OS X that have been released since the Winclone authors posted their suggestion due to an uproar of issues in their forums. (Winclone is really just a GUI front end for hdituil, ntfsclone, and other tools>>
- The “Demi-God (Moderator)”, balamw, indicated he might possibly develop a follow-on product.
- http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1046365
- Several posts stated: