I want to copy my W7 Bootcamp partition to an external HDD, and be bootable of course. It is currently functioning fine alongside Yosemite on a different HDD.
DiskUtility Restore works... I marked the partition as active... But the new Bootcamp partition is still not recognized on start-up.
Please help!
Details:
- Currently using (and working from) Yosemite OSX10.10.2 on an internal SSD.
- Source: HDD1 (external-USB) works fine and can boot as W7 or Yosemite. This is the original Bootcamp partition I want to clone or copy.
- Destination: HDD2 (external-USB) is blank and much larger than the HDD1 Bootcamp partition. This is the drive I'd like to copy my Bootcamp partition to and have it bootable.
- The HDD1 Bootcamp partition was origninally made with OSX10.6.8.
I have tried:
- Formatting HDD2 as GUID-FAT32; using DiskUtility to 'restore' the HDD1 bootcamp partition to; using sudo fdisk to mark as active; everything seemed to go great but it doesnt get recognized upon boot-up.
- Same as above but formatting HDD2 as MBR-FAT32.
- Running disk repair after step 1, looks good.
My fdisk commands: sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk1; p; setpid 1; 07; flag 1; p; write; y ...seems to work. See attached image.
What am I missing???
Thanks in advance.
sudo dd if=/dev/disk1 count=1 bs=446 | xxd
. A result of all zeros would indicate a problem. What is the Model/Year of your Mac? I also assume you disconnected the original external disk before trying to boot to the new external disk. Finally, I am surprised you have been able to boot Windows on an external disk. I thought that was not possible.