If you aren’t happy mucking about with, or up, your Windows install (and who is?) then do what people advised and simply back up the stuff from Windows that’s important to you, then blow Windows away. To answer the question, in general, of how to copy a Windows partition, I suggest dd, otherwise you’re never going to be entirely satisfied with the outcome. For a file-based copy, use ditto, as noted before on the thread. The restoration (i.e., copying) of a source to a target, either of which may be an image, is facilitated by ASR (Apple Software Restore) which performs a block-by-block copy, except that it knows about filesystem structures so it can copy only used blocks and thus is limited to HFS+. The image function handles Apple disk images, which include raw disk images. you might also be able to create a bootable copy of OS X to do this as well (since most of the UNIX/Linux utilities are included). I recommend getting a bootable copy of linux (such as ubuntu or Vinux) that can be booted from a USB stick to do this with. This copies the entire device to an image file. "dd if=/dev/sda of=//backup.img" Note, there is no number after the device SDA. I have used it in the past to completely backup a windows partition (or should I say, a windows drive). Sure, it will take a lot of space on the new storage device (remember, this is a bit for bit copy). If you specify the root level device to be copied, any and all data on that device (such as the MBR/boot record, drive bitmaps, partition tables, etc.) will be copied. Its an old command line tool but very useful nonetheless. It can image the entire device as an image stored elsewhere.
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