Sort of. The image function handles Apple disk images, which include raw disk images. 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+. For a file-based copy, use ditto, as noted before on the thread. For an explicit raw copy, use dd.
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. 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. Then reinstall Windows using BootCamp. It’s true that there are other, more efficient methods, such as the open-source NTFS clone tool used by CloneZilla that has ended up in some commercial product or other, but honestly, at this stage you may as well give up hope of it being easy or straightforward—you’ll have to recreate the partitions, exactly as they are now, then restore the files, then make the partitions bootable. All a lot of work. Or just buy VMWare Fusion and save yourself a lot of pain and suffering now and in the future. Virtual machines are just files on your disk that you can back up however you want. For your mismatched partition problem, did you play with the partition tables at any stage after installing OS X? If you booted Windows in BIOS mode, which is often the case, then it only manipulates the MBR table. OS X and BootCamp assistant set up a hybrid MBR/GPT partition scheme and put the correct records in there for both Windows and OS X, and you shouldn’t touch it once you’ve set it up with the assistant. If I were you, I’d take this opportunity to wipe everything clean and reinstall, but then, I’m like that. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
