![]() PS if you access the internet a lot from Windows you may want to get "CCleaner" to tidy up the crap every now and then. You'll enjoy it after a bit of a learning curve. get Microsoft's "Security Esssentials" (it replaces Windows Defender, it is better and has a very low overhead) in control panel you may want to fiddle with power options if you use command prompt for some maintenance you may need to use the command prompt "run as administrator" (right click) It is as simple as selecting your Boot Camp partition as the source, selecting to save. since you'll be backing up with something like Winclone: turn off in Windows 7 "system protection" which keeps a history of all program changes and eats up space like no tomorrow Winclone makes it easy to backup and restore Boot Camp on your Mac. Carefully check which partitions will be add/removed/erase. Change the name to BOOTCAMP, the format to MS-DOS (FAT) and click Apply: A confirmation sheet will appear. Drag the handle on the slice (as shown below) until the new partition is the size you desire. get a utility called "TweakUAC" and set it to "silent", otherwise the security prompting will drive you nuts (you'll still get prompted every now and then but it is only a fraction of what happens otherwise) Click + below the pie graph, and a new partition will be created. For using Winclone to backup my Boot Camp partition to an external drive. reduce border width of the programs to 0 if you have 4Gb or more memory: reduce pagefile to something like 256Mb A third-party deployment tool from Twocanoes Software, Winclone allows creation of Windows. ![]() turn off hibernation amd make sure the hidden hibernation file is not present Microsoft Windows can be deployed on a Mac using Boot Camp. use 64 bit (is able to use more than 3Gb of memory) If you use Windows XP/Vista under Boot Camp on your intel Mac and you need to backup (duh, you need to backup), then Winclone is an indispensable Mac utility. The Mac is more popular than ever because of these capabilities. ![]() Another machine uses only a 30 Gb SSD but writes only a few hundred Mb a day).Ī few suggestions for windows 7 (excellent choice - I would not go back to XP because support runs out next year). My Windows XP Boot Camp installation running in Parallels 4 as a Window on top of Mac OS X. I think 64 Gb is more than enough depending if it resides on SSD or HDD and if you have write intensive applications (I write 5 - 10 Gb / day, installation is less than 20 Gb but use 128 Gb SSD. Choose the BOOTCAMP partition when prompted 3. Click through the manual Windows 10 installer once the computer has restarted and booted into the Windows installer 2. It depends on your additional programs what space you need. Wait for the install to complete and the computer to restart Install Windows 10 1.
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