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Either add a new partition or reduce the size of your OS X partition.

Once the First Aid is complete, click “Partition” to open the disk partitioning view.

(For more information on the Disk Utility First Aid tool, see here.)

Run the “First Aid” option and wait for it to complete.

Ensure you have selected the disk, not one of the partitions on it.

Launch Disk Utility, and select the internal disk in your system.

Log into OS X using an account with administrator privileges.

Boot the system holding the Option key, and select “Macintosh HD”.

This is not the problem it might initially appear, however. Worse, attempting to boot from Windows recovery media may show that the C: drive is not accessible, the volume is reported as corrupt, and the filesystem is detected as RAW rather than NTFS! Despite this, the newly-restored Windows partition isn’t yet bootable – attempting to boot from it in its current state will almost certainly trigger either a “Missing Operating System” or “BOOTMGR not found – press Ctrl + Alt + Dell to restart” error message. Fixing the partition tableĪt this point, booting the system holding down the Option key should result in both “Macintosh HD” and “Windows” being displayed as available boot options. Remove the Acronis bootable rescue media.įor step-by-step guidance on using the Acronis bootable rescue media, see this official Youtube video. When the recovery has completed and the system is powered down, turn off and disconnect the external storage containing the backup files.This will take some time, so leave it running and check the “Shutdown when recovery complete” option. On the Finish page, click “Proceed” to restore the backup.If possible, avoid changing the partition details. On the “Settings of Partition C:” page, select the internal disk’s Bootcamp partition as the destination.(In my backup, the Bootcamp partition was the only option present with the drive letter listed as C:, unlike in full-system backups where an additional entry for the MBR and Track 0 would also be present). On the What To Recover page, select the Bootcamp partition.On the Recovery Method page, select “Recover whole disks and partitions”.

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On the Archive Selection page, click “Browse” and select the TIB archive to be restored.

When the recovery environment has loaded, select the “Home” tab and click on “My disks” under the “Recover” heading.

When the menu loads for the Acronis media, select the top option – in my case this was listed as “Acronis True Image 2013”.

Ensure the external storage containing the backup is connected and powered on.

Boot from the Acronis bootable media (hold the Option key while booting and manually select the media being used, or hold Command + C to boot directly from optical media).

Restoring the partition from the TIB file

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I’m hoping to be able to test this with a Windows 10 install soon I’ll add to the post when I have done so. My backups are stored on an external drive connected via Firewire.

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I have verified the process described here using Acronis True Image 2013 for Windows, Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-bit, installed on an early 2011 MacBook Pro running OS X El Capitan.

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Recovery media for the version of Windows being restored (can be full install media or a recovery disk).

Licensed Acronis True Image bootable media (ideally for the same version used to create the backup, but this is not a hard requirement).

Connected external storage with TIB file to be restored (using the highest transfer-rate interface available).

Based on this forum thread, I’m not the only person who’s run into this issue either.įortunately, despite being an unsupported configuration I have been able to reproducibly restore a working Bootcamp partition without having to also restore the OS X partition, using the process described below.

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Their recommended solution is to use Acronis for Mac and include the Bootcamp partition in those backups. The crux of the issue is that I am using an unsupported configuration of Acronis True Image – per this article, Acronis does not support installing True Image for Windows in a Bootcamp partition and using it to create and restore backups of that partition. Today’s post is a bit of a swerve from the usual PowerShell I recently encountered difficulties restoring a backup of my Windows install created with Acronis True Image that took a while to understand, so I thought it would be interesting to write up.