Step 4: You should see an ‘Imaging’ window with a progress pie chart to indicate how far the image creation process has progressed. Note: If the image creation process fails, you may be required to run chkdsk /b at the Windows Command Prompt in order to fix any errors as suggested. Click Save to save the image to the selected location. Select the destination folder for the image, and type a name for the image in the Save As box. Step 3: Run Winclone and click Clone Bootcamp Partition, then click Save Image → Save.

Step 2: Boot back into macOS and download Winclone Basic. To learn how to use Boot Camp Assistant, see our full Boot Camp step-by-step tutorial. Step 1: Install Windows via Boot Camp Assistant, and configure the Windows installation to your liking. Subscribe to 9to5Mac on YouTube for more videos How to back up a Boot Camp partition with Winclone Be sure to read Winclone’s tech bulletins for more details on any potential issues that you may face. There are some things that you’ll need to consider before going all-in with Winclone, however, especially if you’re wishing to migrate Boot Camp to a 2015 MacBook, or 2016 MacBook Pro. I think that most users interested in merely backing up and restoring a Boot Camp partition would, in most cases, be fine with the basic version. There are other versions of Winclone available - a Standard and Pro version - that come with additional features geared towards power users.

The app is simple, straightforward, and makes both the backup and restore process particularly easy. Twocanoes Software’s Winclone Basic is a $19.99 app that can save you a significant amount of time if you regularly employ Boot Camp partitions to run Windows on you Mac. Watch our hands-on video walkthrough, as we show you how to back up and restore a Boot Camp Windows partition using Winclone Basic for macOS. By doing so, you can easily restore a snapshot of Windows in mere minutes.

The configuration portion of the install process - initial setup, installing drivers, and downloading needed applications - can take a significant amount of time, so it’s worth backing up your Boot Camp installation after you have it configured to your liking. The tedious part of the installation is taking Windows through its initial setup process, and configuring it to your liking. As we showed you in our step-by-step tutorial, creating a Boot Camp partition on your Mac to install Windows is easy.

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