I was able to restore a functioning MacintoshHD partition from that old backup to get the OSX booting again. The one saving grace in this fiasco was that I had retained a couple of my old Time Machine backups. NOTHING WORKED! Well - the "Option" key boot process appeared to work - it gave me choices to boot either Windows or MacintoshHD, but upon selecting either, it just barfed and threw up errors saying it could not do so. But this time, upon attempts to reboot, not only would it not boot into the Windows partition, it would not boot into the MacintoshHD partition either. These too appeared to restore without complaint. I then attempted to restore all 4 of the backup partitions that ATI had been making all along. At that point all attempts to boot into the BOOTCAMP partition failed with errors that obviously were related to the EFI boot process itself. Until I attempted the re-boot following the completion of the backup. The restore seemed to work - or perhaps I should simply say that the ATI recovery process did not complain about my attempt to restore the BOOTCAMP partition.
Turned out to be the start of a nightmare. And given my success over the past years with earlier ATI image restores, I set about to restore my BOOTCAMP to the previous day's image backup. Then one day last week I changed a bunch of stuff in my Windows 8.1 (BOOTCAMP) environment that I decided were a mistake. So with my faith placed totally in ATI 2015 for Mac I rolled along for a couple of weeks - making daily image backups of BOOTCAMP and MacintoshHD partitions. Little did I know.Īfter making a half dozen ATI backups (from within OS X) which included both the BOOTCAMP and MacintoshHD partitions, I decided to turn off Time Machine - as it seemed semi-redundant and it did not provide any way to backup BOOTCAMP. I upgraded my 3 user license of 2014 to 2015 primarily because of the "support" provided by the ATI for Mac 2015. So far my experience with ATI 2015 is limited. This is a really sweet setup for my needs. Just purchased a MacBook Air (8gb, 256gb SSD) with OS X 10.10.2 (Yosemite) and installed BOOTCAMP to allow dual boot into either OSX or Windows 8.1.
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