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Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2013. Every day (except Sunday) from mid-July until late September, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a standout free or low-cost program. You can view a list of this year’s apps, updated daily, on our handy GemFest page, and you can visit the Mac Gems homepage for past Mac Gems reviews.
OS X’s Boot Camp lets boot your Mac into Windows, temporarily turning it into a Windows PC. It’s a great feature, but if you value your Windows data—or if you want to be able to restore your Boot Camp partition to another Mac or to a new hard drive—you should back up your Windows partition just as you back up your OS X data. In my experience, many Boot Camp users don’t.
Part of the reason, I’m sure, is that even the best Mac backup software—including OS X’s own Time Machine—can’t properly back up a Boot Camp partition. And even standout Mac-cloning utilities such as SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner are unable to make clones of your Boot Camp partition for migrating or restoring your Windows install.
Winclone 4.1, on the other hand, can do all these things. (I reviewed Winclone 1.6 back in 2007, and it’s been updated many times since then.) This utility can create a disk image of your Mac’s Boot Camp partition, making it easy to back up that partition, restore it from a backup, or transfer it to another Mac. You can even use Winclone 4 to resize an existing Boot Camp partition.
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