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I don't know how sketch this is.

I currently have Bootcamp with Windows 7 on my internal along with my Snow Leopard. I'm moving to a bigger harddrive. I'm reinstalling Snow Leopard but I would like to keep my Bootcamp. How do I migrate the data from one drive to another? Any suggestions?

I'm not willing to spend money on this

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Thanks for the writeup. Not using compression on the disk image was the key to getting it to work. I am not sure why having compression on kills the restore. @Xster writeup: tech.xster.net/tips/moving-bootcamp-partition-to-new-drive – TheJacobTaylor Jul 30 '10 at 4:27
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Winclone is a free tool that will make and restore images of your Windows drive.

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I'd never heard of that, but a quick skim of the linked URL seems like this is exactly what the OP is looking for. Upvoted. @user26453: Nice work. You might want to set your username to something a little less default, though. :) – Alexander Burke Mar 25 '10 at 4:59
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Let us know - that would be great! – mindless.panda Mar 28 '10 at 18:06
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Excellent! Winclone worked flawlessly. Required settings are write as dmg and uncompressed. It takes a really long time to restore but shorter than it would have taken me to reinstall all the stuff – Xster Mar 30 '10 at 4:48
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I wrote my process at tech.xster.net/tips/moving-bootcamp-partition-to-new-drive Thanks guys – Xster Apr 5 '10 at 23:17
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Would this be a good way to change the partition size while you're at it? – brainjam Apr 10 '10 at 22:43
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Another source for the tool is CNet

http://download.cnet.com/Winclone/3000-2242_4-172338.html

just in case...

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See the last comment on the accepted answer; it provides an alternate link. – squircle Jan 4 '11 at 16:56
@Daniel Downvoted before the message was deleted/undeleted and edited; now it doesn't warrant an downvote. Sorry for any confusion. – squircle Jan 4 '11 at 21:25
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