Как восстановить windows на imac

asked Sep 1, 2010 at 5:17

I would suggest to first install Windows 7 on the new partition as a new installation.

Then, within Windows 7, Restore your computer from a system image backup using Control Panel -> Recovery -> Advanced recovery methods -> Use a system image you created earlier to recover your computer, and then follow the steps.

If worse comes to worst, you can always mount the .vhd in Disk Management to retrieve your data.

EDIT

I have found new info from this article using Acronis True Image Home 2011 (trial version available):
Restoring Windows 7 VHD Backup Files with Acronis True Image Home 2010.

The article says:

Windows 7 has a special System
Reserved Partition, which is hidden
and contains boot files. This
partition can be viewed in Windows
Disk Management (Start-Run ->
diskmgmnt.msc).

When making an image of your Windows
system using the Windows 7 Backup
tool, it will create a separate .vhd
file for each partition that is in the
system, including the System Reserved
Partition.

If you choose to restore your system
partition from the created Windows 7
Backup .vhd files, you will need to
restore the whole disk where this
system partition is.

Solution

1. Boot from Acronis Bootable Media and select Acronis True Image Home
   (Full version)
2. Click Recovery, browse to your Windows 7 Backup .vhd files and select
   any of the files
3. Once selected, right-click on the .vhd file and select Recover
4. Select Recover whole disks and partitions and click Next
5. Check the partition to recover
   

This approach has failed if you are warned that all data on the
destination disk will be erased:

answered Sep 4, 2010 at 7:20

Your Mac OS X system should be intact.
Windows 7 «see» just bootcamp partition as HDD. Is there size of hard drive? to help you figure out?

usually bootcamp partition looks like last with BOOTCAMP name on it.
If your restore will be unsuccessful,
Install fresh copy of windows 7 to partition what you created.
try to use virtualbox (virtualbox.org) or this method to access your files:
http://www.gilsmethod.com/how-to-mount-vhd-files-without-virtual-pc

Next time use winclone free software to change win bootcamp partition
Or Paragon (trial or buy)

answered Sep 1, 2010 at 8:06

This is not the most direct approach, and would be inconvenient, but would probably be the safest.

I would recommend that you restore the VHD to a different computer hard drive — either an external drive, a spare one you may have lying around, a different computer if you have one you don’t care about — anywhere you can. Then, use a different imaging suite (with the capability to restore to a particular partition) to create an image of that, then using that, restore to your original machine.

answered Sep 5, 2010 at 0:23

A simple solution would be to convert the vhd disk to a raw disk file, (which would take up 70gb) then ‘dd’ it to the given partition. qemu-img, which is part of QEMU, can handle the conversion. (You would obviously have to install qemu on the osx side)

qemu-img convert -f vhd -O raw YourW7Disk.vhd OutputDiskImage.raw

This would, as it is a raw disk image, require 70gb of space. You would then, after creating the raw disk file:

dd if=OutputDiskImage.raw of=/dev/disk0s2

Replacing disk0s2 with the path to the partition device node. You can find the partition device node name in Disk Utility.

Obviously, these commands would have to be run on the OSX side.
This is all assuming that the VHD disk is an image of just the W7 partition, and has the bootsector/etc intact.

This, of the solutions I have seen, is the easiest. It can be done in the already installed system, with minimal effort and time. The only thing you would have to install is qemu (which provides qemu-image iirc), which you can get through macports/brew/fink.

answered Jun 16, 2011 at 4:07

Here is how I think one can restore the vhd to a physical partition, into a partition of 140 GB. I assume that the vhd is on an external disk drive. You will need a partition manager tool with a bootable CD. A free one is MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable CD.

1. Re-partition the 140 GB partition into 2 partitions of 70 GB and format them as NTFS. You can either format as FAT32 by using OS X «Disk Utility» in /Applications/Utilties to format as «MS-DOS File System». Or (preferred) you can use the MiniTool bootable CD to do both the partitioning and format directly in NTFS. Be careful not to destroy any other Mac partition and ensure that the first partition is exactly the same size as when it was backed-up to the vhd.
   The two partitions should now be visible to the Windows 7 boot installation DVD.
2. Install Windows 7 into the first partition. If possible, create the partition in NTFS format. Else, Convert a FAT or FAT32 Volume to NTFS in Windows 7 after the installation.
3. Try to use the backup utility to restore the vhd. If successful, use the Windows Disk Manager to erase the second 70 GB partition and resize the first (system) partition to include the second. If restoring the vhd has failed, continue to the next step.
4. If required, in Windows 7 format the second drive as NTFS if it is not already in NTFS and assign it a drive letter.
5. In Disk Management, Mount a VHD Within Windows 7 as a virtual disk.
6. Use Control Panel / Folder Options / View tab, set «Show hidden files and folders» and unset «Hide protected operating system files» and press OK.
7. Copy all files from the vhd virtual disk to the second partition.
8. Use MiniTool to erase the first partition and move the second one in its place.
9. Try to boot into Windows. If unsuccessful, try to Do a Repair Install to Fix Windows 7.
10. If successful, use the Windows Disk Manager to resize the system partition to include the unused space left when you moved the second partition.

There is of course no way that I can test if my above advice will really work, but let me know if you have any difficulties.

answered Jun 10, 2011 at 7:29

You could try to convert the VHD to a WIM file and use ImageX to apply the WIM to the new partition. I haven’t tried this but it is an option to explore.

This will require the The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7

Mount the VHD (as read only) in your host system:
— diskmgmt.msc
— Action > Attach VHD
— check Read-Only
— select the VHD. Let us assume that it has the letter D: assigned.

Then use imagex to create the WIM:

imagex /compress fast /flags “Ultimate” /check /capture D: C:\image.wim “Windows 7 Ultimate”

Afterwards boot from a Windows PE disk and apply the image with the following command:

imagex /apply d:\image.wim 1 c:\ /verify

Microsoft ImageX reference

answered Jun 14, 2011 at 15:51

I happened to have an old Mac that didn’t have anything on it, so losing Mac OS wasn’t an issue for me with that particular machine. For that reason, I tried restoring from an image directly from the Windows 7 Ultimate CD, and not only did the restore succeed, but the warning was inaccurate, I didn’t lose anything! If you are reading this, go ahead and try it… the worst that can happen is that you do lose Mac OS, but that is what Time Machine is for, right?

EDIT: I did this process again on my primary Mac. Oddly enough, the Macintosh HD partition was reformatted to FAT32, but the installation remained. Both Windows 7 and Lion worked independently, and I could view Mac from Windows, but not Windows from Mac. The Bootcamp partition wouldn’t mount in Disk Utility, either.

The problem, however, is that since Macintosh HD became FAT32, the boot camp assistant gave an error saying that the startup disk is not supported. Fortunately, I made backups of both Mac and Windows, but I will have to restore everything and lose the last week of changes to my Windows installation. Not terrible (for me), but I would like to advise against trying my solution.

answered Jul 29, 2011 at 4:58

Step 2 Point 7 from here:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/675-system-image-recovery.html

Format and repartition disks box:
NOTE: Special thanks to MJF for this addition.
1) Grayed out and selected
You are forced to have the whole disk formatted and repartitioned to match the partition structure of the disk the image was made from. This can occur when restoring an image to a new disk or the original disk with a modified partition structure. Data on other partitions on the disk you are restoring to will be lost.

2) Grayed out and unselected
You are not given the option to format and repartition the disk. This will occur if you are restoring Windows from a partition on the same disk.

3) Not grayed out and unselected
Here you have the option to select format the whole disk and repartition or not. In this case the disk the image was taken from has a matching partition structure to the disk you are restoring the image to. By not selecting the format and repartition option your image will be restored and other partitions untouched such as valuable data partitions.

in short, you (and me) are screwed =/

answered Jan 13, 2013 at 13:03