I was hoping I'd find something which would just clone the entire drive (both partitions) in one go. So the Bootcamp cloning process involve creating a separate NTFS partition on the backup drive first, then running the cloning software (which, unlike most regular Mac software can read/write the NTFS format)? Or if your Mac will boot from USB then this is by far the easiest way You could have a look at these to explain dd and Macrium. There is no point paying for software to do such a trivial (OS agnostic) task. I don't know why MacOS people like recommending WinClone, CCC and Paragon. None are that fast mind you but they are free and you end up with an exact copy of your disk that is bootable in both OS. I therefore use either OSX or Linux normally. Older ones (like my 2006 MBP) will not boot Windows software from external USB without a boot loader.

Your only consideration is what external device your Mac will boot from. I've used both methods and both work fine on all my Macs (and PCs). Just make sure your destination disk is as big or bigger as your internal one. None care about the data on the drive be it Windows or OSX or Linux and copy your partitions and partition table just fine. Or boot from Macrium repair disk (free Windows software) and clone it. There are dozens of applications you can run to do this or you can even buy hardware to do it.īoot from external drive and run one. You want to clone your disk not image it.

Paragon drive copy free