Why you should consider cloning your hard drive If you put a cloned drive into a computer, you’ll be able to start it up and use it normally. A cloned drive is exactly the same as its original. Mac users can perform backups with Time Machine, and Windows also offers its own built-in backup utilities.Ĭloning copies everything. When you back up to an external hard drive or to the cloud, you’re creating duplicates of your files, but that backup cannot function as an independent drive on its own. Just remember that cloning a drive and backing up your files are different:īackups copy only your files. Use Acronis True Image Mac version to backup your entire Mac including the Bootcamp partition.A cloned hard drive is an exact copy of the original, including the operating system and all the files it needs to boot up and run. See Acronis True Image: How to clone a disk on Mac Incompatibility with Windows (PC) version of Acronis True ImageĪcronis True Image PC version is not compatible with Bootcamp partition. If you clone a disk with Boot Camp, Boot Camp will be cloned along with other disk contents and bootability will be kept. When performing a recovery from an Entire Mac or a Disk backup, Boot Camp will also be restored. The reason is that Parallels Desktop does not support snapshotting of Windows running from Boot Camp: RecoveryĪlthough it is not possible to backup just the Boot Camp disk volume, it is possible to mark only Boot Camp for restoration. Otherwise the backup may fail or will include Boot Camp in an inconsistent, unbootable state. If you use Parallels Desktop software to run Windows from Boot Camp, you need to shut down the corresponding Windows virtual machine before taking the backup with Acronis. If you use third-party drivers to write to the NTFS file system, stable operation of such drivers is not guaranteed when a backup is in progress. The backup will contain all the data stored on the drive, including the Boot Camp partition. You need to back up the hard drive where Boot Camp is installed by using Entire Mac or My Disks backup source. Bootability of both operating systems will be kept. If you have Boot Camp installed on your hard drive to use Windows in addition to MacOS, you can back up and recover the entire disk, including Boot Camp.
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