Re-imaging MBP & Bootcamp partition

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Jstein - 01 Feb 2008 18:44 GMT

This is going to sound like a loaded question but here we go: I am a
senior studying industrial design. I am using a MacBook Pro 2.33 Ghz
running Tiger. I am running Windoze XP on a 20 Gb partition. Though
our school maintains these computers, they are ours to keep at the end
of the year. I have just learned that our school has a new image for
our computers with Leopard and CS3. I was at first very excited about
hearing this but I am also wondering if I am going to suffer a loss
with the upgrade (these upgrades are optional) I understand that
Leopard has bootcamp built in and does not behave the same as Tiger in
booting into Windows. I have installed a legitimate version of XP,
Solidworks 2007 and Adobe Illustrator on the Windows side and I am
afraid of loosing both during the upgrade. Is there a feasible way to
make a mirror image of this hard drive and then transfer the programs
to the partition once Leopard is installed? I have created a bootable
backup of my Macintosh HD using a WD 250Gd external with Superduper! I
assume if I do go with the upgrade any programs that were installed on
the old Mac OS I can drag them into Leopard from the external. Any
help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all in
advance.

Sincerely,

Jesse Stein

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Lewis - 01 Feb 2008 21:20 GMT

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> I am running Windoze XP on a 20 Gb partition.

How are you running windows? Via Boot Cmap beta for Tiger, or VM Ware
Fusion or Parallels?

> Though
> our school maintains these computers, they are ours to keep at the end
> of the year. I have just learned that our school has a new image for
> our computers with Leopard and CS3. I was at first very excited about
> hearing this but I am also wondering if I am going to suffer a loss
> with the upgrade (these upgrades are optional)

Depends on how they do the upgrade. They SHOULD simply wipe your Mac
partition and reinstall everything clean. This would mean you would
need to backup all your Mac files. They should NOT be reformatting the
drive, so your windows partition SHOULD be untouched.

The only people who can answer this are those doing the upgrade. Who
knows, they might have decided to swap hard drive in and out...

My rule is never give a computer to anyone unless you are prepared to
lose all the data on it.

> afraid of loosing both during the upgrade. Is there a feasible way to
> make a mirror image of this hard drive and then transfer the programs
> to the partition once Leopard is installed?

If you have a large external disk you CAN make a dd copy of the windows
partition. Best thing would be to make it onto a same sized partition
(or larger) on the large drive, formatted the same way (NTFS most
likely).

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