When I got a new MacPro last year I formatted one of the additional (i.e. non-boot) drives with Bootcamp and installed Win 7 x64 on it. This set up has been working well these last 12+ months but I recently realised that the drive I've installed Windows on is a slow WD 'Green' eco-drive. Its rather slow at times as is only really designed for backups or storage rather than heavy use (I'm a .Net developer and use VMs extensively.
So what I'd like to now is move the Bootcamp partition onto the boot drive that came with the machine and keep everything running as it currently is. Is this going to be possible or am I looking at a day's work re-installing Windows and all my apps onto a fresh Bootcamp partition on the main drive?
(Please say its possible) 😀
UPDATE August 2011:
I tried Winclone. Its no longer supported and fails everytime. Also not easily usable on OS X 10.7 Lion.
I've tried using the built-in Windows 7 backup functionality but this only seems to restore my files, not the OS environment.
Please help!
Best Answer
It's a pleasure to tell you that it is, possible. I've done it successfully using Winclone
You can start rebreathing ;)