How Do You Do Clone A Mac Drive using Win7 OS?

How Do You Do Clone A Mac Drive using Win7 OS?

A have a MacBook Pro A1229 with the bad NVidia video chip issue. The laptop quickly lost video and I don't have a very current backup. Most of the cloning solutions (ie superduper) are Mac based. Does anyone know of a cloning solution that is Win7 OS based please? I'd like to read my drive in Win7 OS. I'd also like to back the drive up by cloning it to an external USB drive. I only have a Win7 OS laptop available to use at this time. It's my understanding the drive has multiple partitions due to BootCamp, XP Pro and Leopard 10.5 installed. I'd like to keep the full disk structure to restore after I have the recall logic board work done. Thank you for reading this...

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bert [Entry]

"I don't believe its possible to do what you want. The Windows OS is very unforgiving of other operating systems and usually won't read them. If you try this the Win 7 laptop will ask you to format the drive if it even recognizes it. I am including a link to the only OS7 cloner I know of. Good luck.

http://www.goldentroutsoftware.com/scc.h..."

bert [Entry]

Windows cannot "see" the mac drive since its in the HFS format, windows uses NTFS, and the only common format between the two is FAT. To get around this problem you'll need a third system as an intermediary.

bert [Entry]

It sounds weired to make clone of Mac using Win 7 OS and I am not getting why do you want to do this, when there are many software to Clone Mac Clone Macefficiently.