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Dr.Tech
20th March 2006, 11:16 PM
Has anyone tried this yet?

Is it possible?

Carbon Copy cloner clones the mac partition ok, but does not recognize the XP one(s)

I would like to build 20 machines but do not look forward to repeating everything manually for the XP side (including installing all of the software titles 20 times).

thanks
larry

glenn123
27th March 2006, 11:31 AM
I used apple disk utility to take an image of the working xp partition in case i busted it trying out drivers It seemed to work fine but i haven't tried to recover yet.

Dr.Tech
27th March 2006, 11:35 PM
Today, I successfully cloned a MBP 2.0 Ghz computer to an identical MBP.

I target booted each computer to a virgin intel iMac (mean that I did not do any updates) with 2 firewire ports.

CopyCatX from http://www.subrosasoft.com was the software I used.

I did not sysprep the XP partition and it is working fine, as best as I can tell.

The 100 Gb clone took about 3.5 hours.

cheers
DT

Romanow
28th March 2006, 12:12 AM
On the PC Acronis True Image did always a good work to clone/backup my HardDisk.

I will try it when i receive my Mac Mini soon.