I am attempting to try something geeky with boot camp and need advice

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RonaldMacDonald

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I have yet to use boot camp and at present, my Mac is 100% Mac. I have a XP on a Dell computer and have backed up ALL data (including system and drivers) to an external drive using Acronis TrueImage 2010 backup software for windows. The software will allow you to restore to completely different hardware using an option they sell called Acronis True Image Home 2010 Plus Pack.

Is there a way I could create a partition with boot camp assistant and then without inserting any disks, "recover" from the external drive on which I have made a backup using Acronis?

I am trying to do things without having to install all that system software, applications, etc.
 
I don't see why not though... Apparently it's putting all the drivers and system software back, so I would think that it would boot fine.
 
I doubt it as installing via bootcamp is very much a special case of Windows installation - it was under 10.5 but i had issues with for instance using restore disks, as i could not boot to them - the only way i could boot an install disk was for totally reinstalling the win partition.

You could try though i guess, but i;d think youd have to create the partion then use DiskUtility to restore the image file you have to it, and i doubt it owuld recognise the acronis images.

This suggests i might be right :(http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=369975


I wonder maybe if you coudl do it with both bootcamp and a parallels/fusion/virtualbox VM - use the VM to load the acronis sw and then be able to write the image to the bootcamp partiion, seems a long way round though.

Alternatively maybe you could use something like http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/stm/features/ to migrate the PC to parallels then something like http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=6433&highlight=move+parallels+boot+camp to move it to Bootcamp (old instructions though)
 
Your Dell Windows installation includes drivers that are, most likely, specific to some parts of the Dell computer.

These may not work properly or may require a driver update/reload for the parts of your Mac that are different from your Dell computer.
 
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