Hopefully the image tools makers will see a market in making their tools work under Boot Camp. That's far from an image restore but not totally catastrophic. Once your partition is backed up as a VMware virtual disk, to recover you can re-install Windows in the Boot Camp partition and use XP's File and Settings Transfer wizard or Vista's User migration to recover your data, but you will end up re-installing your applications. I've tried using dd myself semi-successfully but losing the dual boot capabilities of the VM to the partition. Unfortunately no boot-time recovery tool I know of restores Boot Camp partitions (Acronis, Ghost, etc). You can do the first half of the above, which is backup the partition using vmware-vdiskmanager and turning the Boot Camp partition into a working Fusion VM. Is there any way to gracefully recover from such corruption of the boot Camp partition? E.g., can I create an image of the partition using Fusion, and in the case of corruption, reformat the partition and then restore the saved image? Next time please ask for help before you give up and start over. My question to you is why didn’t you ask for help in this forum before you gave up and manually rebuilt your system? There are many people here that could and would have helped you try to recover before having to start over. Things do happen and sometimes when you least expect them to, so it pays to be prepared! I know that’s of no consolation to you at this point but you may what to look at the technologies that are available to avoid have to manually redo all of it when a major issues arises. There are also other methods to repair a problem like a missing file than the Recovery Consol and I’m sure many people would agree that using a Live Windows CD like BartPE, WinPE or UBCD where you have a GUI and many more tools to diagnose and repair before wiping out days of work even if having a Image to recover from. Many a time I’ve spent day’s building out a system and with Ghost I can restore all that work in less than an hour if something happens that I can fix quickly with a Live Windows CD if I can’t boot the system from the HDD. To avoid having to manually rebuild out the OS and User Software one can create a Recovery Image of the HDD/Partition using a product like Symantec Norton Ghost or other disk imaging software. It has been well known and expected that when using the first release of a product that in at least a few cases anything unexpected can and will happen, you just pray that it doesn’t happen to you! However when it does if one is properly prepared it relatively easy to recover. Sorry to hear you’re having so much problems using Fusion and without trying to point a finger at who or what is to blame consider the following… Leopard was just released as was the first non-beta version of Fusion and now 1.1 is out and lets not forget the other software piece of this puzzle MS Window and in spite of how stable it is non-the-less I’ve seen unexplainable strange things happen for no good apparent reason.
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