This not only improves Pro Tools performance, it keeps your data off the drive the operating system is running on which helps protect it from OS failure. Once youve done that, use Boot Camp Assistant to recreate the Boot Camp partition, and then use WinClone to restore the image to that new partition. Then use something like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to clone the OS X partition to the new disk. Use a secondary internal or external hard disk to save all documents and Pro Tools work to. This will basically encapsulate your Boot Camp partition into a single file.Create an image of the hard disk using a disk cloning utility and copy it on to an external hard disk or secondary hard disk.Ensure that everything is operating properly for your working needs.
Install Pro Tools LE, available updates, Digidesign plug-ins, third party Plug-ins.Configure and optimize the OS for use with Pro Tools.Install latest device drivers for core hardware such as network and display adapters and system devices.
The processes will unmount the destination drive and repartition a separate 1 GB partition to be used to copy the recovery HD to. Install the operating system you will be using and any available critical updates Solution 2: Restore the recovery HD using Carbon Copy Cloner 4.This morning, I read this section under notes 'Cloning Apple's Recovery Partition': 'Why were other volumes on my disk unmounted when I created a Recovery HD: CCC uses a command-line version of Disk Utility to resize the donor. You can get back to work when problems occur in the time it takes to restore the image Using Carbon Copy Cloner, I clicked on their Disk Center option to create Recovery Partition on this external drive.All applications and settings can be restored to the exact state at the time of the clone.If you have ever had to use a system restore utility or recovery disk from the manufacturer of your computer you have already experienced this process. I have a full-volume backup in a folder or a disk image, but I dont have a bootable backup. It is possible to make an exact copy of the data a hard disk contains that can be loaded on to other disks or restored on to the same disk should the need arise.