Bootcamp partition cannot move files

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However, in disk utility it shows up. When I select the boot option it gets stuck to a black screen with blinking cursor. Wow how did I miss that?

No issues with external usb storage, but I recommend copying it locally rather than copying over any external network disk for speed reasons. So the terminal code will find the file on the ext. Do I need to somehow remove the cdr from the image file name on my drive?

I followed your process with only a few minor bumps along the way. Up until I tried to reboot — no startup manager showed up. And then appeared to go thru some recovery steps.

My source was a 95g GB Win10 on a iMac. Note the current bootcamp asst would not let me create a 95GB destination — GB was the minimum size. I am probably not going to retry this. It stands at a black screen with one underline-symbol blinking at the top left corner. Thank you so much for this guide. Prior research led me to waste so much time trying to get winclone working. After hours of messing with it, finally gave up and kept research for something better which led me to here.

I pretty much followed all the steps. Only road bump I came across on was that after the restore and reboot, the Windows partition gave me a boot error. So decided to boot from the USB drive that was created during the boot camp partition, ran startup repair, and voila!

Dual boot is back in working order. Thank you so much again. I tried using the guide and followed the instructions very carefully — twice. Each time I did it I got the same end result when booting to the Windows partition — a blinking cursor. Fortunately, BootCamp allows you to delete the partition so you can start over.

It looks like the process does not correctly load the cloned partition onto the new partition. Fortunately, I had not used my Windows set-up too much before needing to switch computers so I will simply do a clean-install with BootCamp and re-install my apps. I was hoping this process would work for me, but it looks like I am back to the drawing board. I just wanted to thank you and let you know that this method WORKS, but needs a few extra steps in my case. I am sharing my experience in case someone is having trouble as I did.

Naturally I wanted to back both my partition up and restore them after the SSD install. My Mac side is backed up and restored using Time Machine. My Windows bootcamp was backed up using your method. Everything worked fine up until I tried to boot into Windows. I was getting a boot loop error windows logo with spinning balls, restart, repeat. I then booted using my Bootcamp-Assistant-made Windows install thumbdrive, only to realize it is missing the Repair Windows Installation menu.

So I had to pull up my spare old Windows 7 laptop and created a regular Windows 10 bootable thumbdrive. I opened command prompt on the bootable drive to see if my files were restored correctly, and they were. I then tried manually reparing with varius chkds, bcdrepair, and so on at command prompt and none of them was doing anything. I tried that and my Windows Bootcamp booted right up, exactly as I left it. If you have a spare laptop, you can create the bootcamp one first, then the Microsoft one on the same drive after like I did.

The last steps to complete the restoration after the dd restore are: 1. Start computer while holding option key and select bootable drive 3. Hit next on the very first screen language and keyboard layout options 4. I was very close to success with this USB 3 drive, but Windows would fail during start-up. Step 1: Get the Thunderbolt drive to work under your Bootcamp Windows 7 installation. This should be simple enough, but proved to be a little tricky.

If the downloaded driver installer is in a compressed format like zip for example be sure to decompress it before running the driver installer. Still running Windows 7 with your Thunderbolt drive connected and visible to the system, it is now time to format your external Thunderbolt drive in NTFS-format. There are several ways of doing this. I used the procedure described here at tedhhack. Step 3: Follow the directions at intowindows. As described at intowindows. At step 9 in the described process at intowindows.

At step 10 in the described process at intowindows. If you pick the wrong one on the internal drive at first, simply restart the computer and choose the other one. You know you got the right one when the installation process continues and asks for further input. Step 4: Clone your Bootcamp partition from your internal drive to the external Thunderbolt drive.

In this step you will copy all the software, drivers, settings and other files from your Bootcamp partition on your internal drive to your external Thunderbolt drive. Press Next again and choose your external Thunderbolt drive your newly installed Windows 7 as the Destination Disk.

Press Yes to this question. Next screen is an Operation Summery. If your destination partition is larger than your source destination like mine was, press Edit Size of Partition. This will take you to another screen, where you can drag to resize the partition. I dragged this all the way to the right to give Windows 7 the full size of my external Thunderbolt drive. When the cloning process is done, exit AOMEI Backupper and restart your computer holding down the option or alt key to start up in your new clone of your old Windows 7 with all the same software, drivers, settings and files.

Step 5: Enjoy running all your Windows 7 applications from your external Thunderbolt drive! I am reluctant to entirely remove the Bootcamp partition from my internal drive, as I am unsure whether this will disable me from starting up in Windows. I would love to hear from anyone here with insight on the matter. Posted on Apr 13, AM. Not the best solution, but at least I've saved 30GB of space compared to my previous Bootcamp partition - and I now have enough space to install the Windows 7 software I need on the external Thunderbolt drive Page content loaded.

Apr 13, AM in response to seethelight In response to seethelight. Apr 13, AM. Jun 7, PM in response to seethelight In response to seethelight. Jun 7, PM. Although this method is capable enough to enlarge your Bootcamp partition size, you have to delete Windows at first. Click to tweet. Step 2: Use Disk Utility to shrink your Mac partition to release some unallocated space as much as you need to add to the Bootcamp partition.

Step 4: Download MiniTool Partition Wizard Free edition from its official website, install it on your computer according to prompts and then launch it to get its main interface. Step 6: Choose the unallocated space from the Take Free Space from and then drag the sliding button to decide how much free space to take.

You will be asked to restart your computer to apply the task since the Bootcamp partition is being used now by Windows. After all operations done, you have finished increasing the size of Bootcamp partition without deleting Windows.

Video tutorial for resizing your Bootcamp partition without deleting Windows disk partitioning. In addition to extending partition without data loss, MiniTool Partition Wizard can also help to shrink the size of Bootcamp partition. But, how do I reduce the size of a bootcamp partition? Keep reading to find details! Step 4: Change the length of partition handle to resize partition.

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