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I have an old hard drive that used to be in my MacBook Pro that has a Boot Camp partition. When I upgraded the hard drive in my MBP, I didn't copy over the Boot Camp partition. Now I want to use the old hard drive for something else, but don't want to lose the Boot Camp partition. Can I copy it into a VMWare image (Fusion) or otherwise copy it into some other kind of file? (It's only a 15G partition, small but not small enough to fit on a DVD).

Ken Liu
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You can dd it to an archive. Unmount all partitions on that drive or boot using live cd (SystemRescueCd for example) and do something like:

dd if=/dev/hda | gzip -c  > /some_folder/hda.img.gz

Just put right name instead of hda (it may be sda). After compression it will be much smaller.

Alex Bolotov
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What I would do is put the old hard drive into an external enclosure and boot from it into Boot Camp. Then you can use the free VMware Converter to make a VM out of it.