[X4U] Gimme a Mac any day - I need PC help!

[Conlon Brett]

This app looks awesome! Thanks for the pointer. I may yet need to use  
it (see my prev post).

Cheers, Coj

Sent from my iPhone

On 24/01/2010, at 19:50, alexandre <list at kapellos.com> wrote:

> hi
> i'm not sure this will help, but you might want to look into it:
>
> winclone: www.twocanoes.com/
>
> regards, alexandre
>
> On Jan 24, 2010, at 05:08 , Conlon Brett wrote:
>
>> Mannnn, working with PC's more and more has made me love Macs all  
>> the more.
>>
>> I'm looking for a tool which can help me to clone/migrate a Windows  
>> XP partition on a USB drive (32GB Fat-32) to my Mac laptop's 75GB  
>> NTFS partition.
>>
>> I've been searching and testing PC utilities for days and so far  
>> have nu lock finding a free or otherwise solution. They either want  
>> to clone the entire hard drive to the destination (overwriting what  
>> I already have for my partitioning on the Mac) or they can't  
>> recognise the NTFS partition on the GUID formatted drive (ie. they  
>> don't support GPT).
>>
>> I just HAVE to get this working in the next day (pref-next few hrs)  
>> or I'm stuffed!!!!
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Cojcolds (who was having a grand 40th boofday until this came along  
>> <8-{ )
>>
>> ps. my original need was to try to get myself a larger WinXP  
>> partition to work with (larger than 32GB) due to constantly running  
>> out of space but I found I couldn't have more than 2 partitions  
>> when using bootcamp (one for MacOS and the other for Windows) so  
>> adding another FAT-32 partition was outa the question... I couldn't  
>> install Windows onto a FAT-32 partition larger than 32GB (it just  
>> won't boot - windows limitation) and so NTFS is the only option  
>> left. I imaged my original 32GB FAT-32 partition using Ghost 9 but  
>> found that the only way to restore a Ghost image is for it to  
>> resize the partition back to 32GB, defeating my initial purpose of  
>> obtaining a larger drive so in the end I restored it to an external  
>> USB drive and now I want to migrate all the contents to my NTFS  
>> partition. I still have the original ghost image if needed, too.  
>> When I had to back up the Mac side, I simply used Time Machine  
>> which was essentially a single-click function and when I restored  
>> the Time M
> achine backup to the Mac partition I booted off the OSX install disc  
> and restored from a Time Machine Backup - SOOOO  
> EFFFOOORRTTLLEESSSSS!!!!!!!! Hence my email subject...
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