Cloning Macbook HDD to SSD including Bootcamp?

[Gronnie]

Hi all.

I just purchased an SSD I plan on installing in my mid-2012 MacBook Pro 13". I have watched tutorials on how to clone the HDD over to the new SSD, but none of them seem to have included a Bootcamp partition.

Is the procedure going to be the same, different, or impossible?

If I have to I can delete the Bootcamp partition and then just reinstall Windows 7 on the new SSD, but I would rather not.

 

[ViRGE]

There may be other utilities, but the only one I know of that can properly clone Bootcamp is Winclone.

http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/

 

[rtrt]

been looking into this a bit myself & have also heard of http://clonezilla.org can't vouch for it tho as not used it.

 

[phreaqe]

Clonezilla will only work is the drive you are cloning to is the same size or larger. it will not handle going to a smaller drive which is a bummer.

I was in a similar boat to you a month ago and just decided to to reinstall windows because i did not have much installed and i was not purchasing a piece of software to make it work. All i could find was software like winclone and it cost to much in my opinion for a 1 time use.

 

[vbuggy]

Pony up for Winclone - it's the only solution that doesn't end up with you tearing your hair out (and even then it's hardly elegant). Man I don't understand these bellyachers who buy into the Apple ecosystem and get all holier than thou, then bitch about paying for stuff.

Be nice.
-ViRGE

 

[Zaap]

Eh. n/m

 

[Gronnie]

I decided to just reinstall. I didn't have much on the Windows side.

Cloning the OSX partition didn't take long at all using recovery and a USB3 enclosure.

 

[Biggu]

I was going to say just use the built in recovery and go from it. If you have a time capsule its pretty simple just reinstall OSX and point it back to the time capsule and it will restore all your files and settings as if you never changed the drive.