Last month I wrote about issues with block sizes and migrating Boot Camp partitions and said this: There is currently no way to update the MFT record size without reformatting, but I will continue to investigate and will update as I know more. In the meantime, you can always boot Windows in Boot Camp with…
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Bootcamp on the “New” Mac Pro
We got our hands on a new Mac Pro to make sure that Winclone and Bootcamp all work as expected. We ordered it the day it was released, but didn’t receive it until 2 months later. We didn’t have any reports of issues with the new Mac Pro, but we were still interested in seeing…
New Macs, Winclone, and Windows 8 EFI Boot
We have been working hard to get Winclone updated to work with the recent MacBook Air, iMac, and MacBook Pro EFI with Windows 8 natively in EFI. It turns out that the new hardware not only supports Windows booting in EFI mode, but also installs that way by default when using bootcamp assistant. When you…
Sysprep: It’s not just for PCs anymore
Outside of IT circles, Sysprep is a relatively unknown utility included on every Windows installation. Sysprep is commonly used to prepare systems for distribution across PC enterprises. But Mac users will find Sysprep very handy when upgrading their Apple hardware. In the PC world, migrating Windows from one computer to another is not a common…