Instead of starting from scratch, mac users have the option of imaging their boot camp partition with winclone and restoring an exact copy to a. Automating boot camp and windows deployment london apple. This document covers how to use sysprep to prepare a windows installation to migrate between different mac models. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number. See how to use winclone 7 to import base windows 10 images wim files, inject drivers, and deploy windows 10 with customized macos packages. Make sure to backup all important data and create a winclone image of the boot camp partition prior to running sysprep. I bought winclone this morning with the intent of cloning a bootcamp partition to and external drive. Using sysprep when migrating boot camp twocanoes support. Everything configured in the operating system before you run sysprep installed software, desktop. Run winclone and click clone bootcamp partition, then click save image save. Run sysprep sysprep is a tool built into all versions of windows and.
Inject drivers, import wim and package customization with. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. This is a quick walkthrough of the cloning and restoring process with winclone 6. For example, you can now use winclone to clone an actual windows pc to a disk image for later restoring, or migrate an actual windows pc directly to a boot camp partition on your mac. Winclone will clone windows onto a different volume on the fly which means that you neednt stop your work and make sure it is bootable. Although winclone supports imaging of windows xp in ntfs format, apple no longer provides boot camp drivers for windows xp, so windows 7 or above are supported as source operating systems for the boot camp migration. Sysprep is limited to being run three times before windows will start to reject. Two canoes has a decent guide on doing this, but my steps below are specific to my experience with windows 10 and macbook pro hardware. Launch winclone, and your current windows partition should appear in the sources list.
Winclone is a musthave utility for boot camp users. Apples boot camp assistant for partitioning and creating install media. Migrating a boot camp partition twocanoes software. Winclone makes it easy to back up, restore, and migrate boot camp. Often a last resort when migrated systems fail to boot or crash during startup, sysprep can provide a way to boot windows when other steps have failed. Migrating a boot camp partition can be a complex undertaking, mainly due to hardware differences that can render windows unstable on a new system. Sysprep allows you to delete all information related to a specific operating system, including unique identifiers sid, guid, etc. After the migration, it will be necessary to reinstall boot camp drivers and reauthorize windows, so be prepared for this before using it. If your boot camp system fails to start up after a migration, return to the. Windows 7 ultimate x64 sysprepped bootcamp winclone mac. Prepare windows with sysprep in a virtual machine twocanoes. Clone and restore boot camp with winclone 6 youtube.