Winclone
Clone your XP/Vista bootcamp partition
Now with mountable images and FAT32 support!

New Machine Setup a breeze
If you are in charge of setting up a bunch of machines with both Mac OS X and Bootcamp, Winclone will make your job a breeze. Simply create an image as you would for a backup, and Winclone will create the Windows partition and restore the OS and data onto the new partition.

Quick Lab Deployment
Deploy images with ARD: Using the included script and the image created with Winclone, you can easily send a new winclone image to a group of Intel Macs, imaging the entire lab in minutes.

Features

  • Requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) New
  • Clone either FAT32 or NTFS partitions New
  • Mount images in the Finder New
  • Fixes boot issues automatically New
  • New preference window to fine tune your cloning New
  • Source partition is not changed when cloning (except for removal of pagefile.sys) New
  • Clone Windows XP or Windows Vista with ease.
  • Clone to your Bootcamp partition either on a separate drive or on the same that contains your Mac OS X partition.
  • Creates image documents that can be stored on any media and double-clicked to open in WinClone.
  • Verbose logging so you know what is going on
  • Built on the open source ntfstools, which are included in Winclone, so you don't have to install anything else.
  • Fast: Restore a 10 GB image in less than 10 minutes.
  • Create a Bootcamp partition from within Winclone.
  • Do it all from the boot drive: You don't need to boot from a Firewire drive to clone the Windows partition.
  • Clean and uncomplicated interface

Totally Free
Use it for as long as you like, without any pesky reminders about paying fees. Share it with your friends. Be nice to one another.

However, if you'd like to donate a few bucks:

FAT Support
When restoring a FAT32 bootcamp partition, you must restore on to a partition that is the same size or larger as the original partition. If you restore it onto a partition that is larger, the partition will shrink to match the size of the original partition, and you will not be able to expand it. If you want the ability to increase the size of your Windows partition, convert it to NTFS. Winclone will then expand the image on restore to take up all the space on the partition.

NTFS changes
In version 1.x of Winclone, you had the option to "Prepare for restoring on a different partition". This caused much confusion, and the functionality in version 2.0 still exists, but is handled differently. If you want to move your bootcamp partition to a smaller partition, simply shrink the filesystem on the original bootcamp partition first by selecting the Tools->Shrink Windows (NTFS) filesystem.

More Information
If you want more information on how Winclone works, the nitty gritty on ntfstools, and a quick refresher on MBR and partition tables, check it out here.

Leopard Requirement
I know there will be requests for Tiger (10.4) compatibility, but Winclone 2.0 relies on Leopard features for bootable images and FAT32 support. The license for running Bootcamp also expired for Tiger. If you haven't upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), it is time. It is worth it.

Deploying With ARD
Check out the pdf of how to deploy a winclone image with ARD.

Need Help?
Read the FAQ and check out the forums to discuss any issues surrounding Winclone and imaging your Windows partition. If you have any comments or feedback, send an email to feedback@twocanoes.com

Getting Winclone
Getting Winclone is easy. Simply click on the download button below, and a disk image will be downloaded to your computer and mounted. Simply drag the Winclone icon to your Applications folder.



Current Version 2.0.9

Version History

  • 2.0.9:Fixed issue affecting restoring a FAT32 image so that it bootable.
  • 2.0.8: Fixed issue with resizing of NTFS filesystem not updating file size correctly, Fixed issue where filesystem incorrectly identified,Fixed issue where case sensitive HFS+ was being reported as a "non-Mac" drive, Fixed issue with path to ntfstools_dir not quoted correctly
  • 2.0.7: Added option to turn off compression, Fixed issue with UTF-8 not supported in winclone.perl (thanks to 佐々木勇治 (Mr. Yuji Sasaki) for the f, Fixed issue when expanding after restoring "special" format, Minor fix to address crash when credits window is opened multiple times,,Minor fix to address issue restoring NTFS from DMG when filesystem is dirty,Paragon NTFS filesystem now recognized as NTFS
  • 2.0.1-2.0.5 Fixed issue when expanding after restoring "special" format, minor fix to address crash when credits window is opened multiple times, minor fix to address issue restoring NTFS from DMG when filesystem is dirty, paragon NTFS filesystem now recognized as NTFS
  • 2.0 added features to mount images and clone fat32 volumes
  • 1.6.6 Fixed issue with warning about debug.
  • 1.6.5 Added additional warning about backing up versus cloning.
  • 1.6.4 Bug fix for slowness caused by large log files. Changed update frequency for UI to 5 seconds from 1 second. Fixed bug relating to large partition sizes
  • 1.6.3 Bug fix for additional attempts to resize.
  • 1.6.2 Bug fix for create partition.
  • 1.6.1 Added more attempts to try and guess the resize size to resolve some issues.
  • 1.6 Leopard compatibility, stopped errors due to pagefile.sys not existing when removing, selections now saved between launches, log is no longer deleted unless "Clear log" is clicked, description field added to help label images, fixed bug to allow for restoring of older images.
  • 1.5 Fixed issues related to out of space errors, added ability to expand filesystem.
  • 1.4.1 Added ability to clone Vista partitions and clone successfully to drives that only have a NTFS partition.
  • 1.3 Removed checks so user can select any partition. This was causing trouble find some valid partitions. If user selects a non-NTFS partition, operation will just fail.
  • 1.2.1 Fixed issue with self extracting not copying all required resources
  • 1.2 Added ability to work with partitions on other disks, and added some other options
  • 1.1 Fixed bug in "Create Windows Partition" that would sometimes cause the creation of a windows partition to not work.
  • 1.0 Initial Release
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