Stuck formatting as NTFS

Winclone
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I am trying to migrate a Win 7 Boot Camp partition from one iMac to another.
After having problems with just about every step, I have finally got one iMac into TDM, connected to the target via thunderbolt. I turned off SIP, and selected the remote volume as the source, and also selected the FAT formatted local volume as the target.
Winclone appears to be stuck at 2% changing the local volume format from FAT to NTFS, logs-

default 19:27:32.487633 +1100 com.twocanoes.WincloneHelper Setting resource path: /Volumes/Sierra Samsung/Applications/Winclone 6.app/Contents/Resources
default 19:27:32.487740 +1100 com.twocanoes.WincloneHelper Setting userID path: 502
default 19:27:32.487800 +1100 com.twocanoes.WincloneHelper Setting GroupID path: 20
default 19:27:32.487897 +1100 com.twocanoes.WincloneHelper Setting feedback listener
default 19:27:32.488176 +1100 Winclone 6 Getting new connection feedback request
default 19:27:32.488399 +1100 Winclone 6 Error Error Domain=WincloneHelperError Code=8 “User Cancelled” UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=User Cancelled}
default 19:27:32.488477 +1100 Winclone 6 Mounting /dev/disk0s4
default 19:27:32.490915 +1100 Winclone 6 Setting the system to allow sleep…
default 19:27:32.490959 +1100 authd Succeeded authorizing right ‘system.volume.internal.mount’ by client ‘/Volumes/Sierra Samsung/Applications/Winclone 6.app’ [590] for authorization created by ‘/Volumes/Sierra Samsung/Applications/Winclone 6.app’ [590] (13,0)
default 19:27:32.492628 +1100 authd Succeeded authorizing right ‘system.volume.internal.mount’ by client ‘/usr/libexec/diskarbitrationd’ [79] for authorization created by ‘/Volumes/Sierra Samsung/Applications/Winclone 6.app’ [590] (2,0)
default 19:27:32.894210 +1100 Winclone 6 Mounting /dev/disk0s4 Finished
default 19:29:19.562481 +1100 Winclone 6 Setting to not sleep…
default 19:29:19.595896 +1100 Winclone 6 Unmounting /dev/disk0s4
default 19:29:19.595929 +1100 com.twocanoes.WincloneHelper Setting resource path: /Volumes/Sierra Samsung/Applications/Winclone 6.app/Contents/Resources
default 19:29:19.596018 +1100 com.twocanoes.WincloneHelper Setting userID path: 502
default 19:29:19.596090 +1100 com.twocanoes.WincloneHelper Setting GroupID path: 20
default 19:29:19.596183 +1100 com.twocanoes.WincloneHelper Setting feedback listener
default 19:29:19.598334 +1100 authd Succeeded authorizing right ‘system.volume.internal.unmount’ by client ‘/Volumes/Sierra Samsung/Applications/Winclone 6.app’ [590] for authorization created by ‘/Volumes/Sierra Samsung/Applications/Winclone 6.app’ [590] (13,0)
default 19:29:19.599812 +1100 authd Succeeded authorizing right ‘system.volume.internal.unmount’ by client ‘/usr/libexec/diskarbitrationd’ [79] for authorization created by ‘/Volumes/Sierra Samsung/Applications/Winclone 6.app’ [590] (2,0)
default 19:29:19.701305 +1100 Winclone 6 Unmounting /dev/disk0s4 Finished
default 19:29:19.701610 +1100 com.twocanoes.WincloneHelper Winclone Helper Tool starting restore.
default 19:29:19.914929 +1100 com.twocanoes.WincloneHelper Executing "ntfslabel -f -f /dev/disk2s4"
default 19:29:20.919774 +1100 Winclone 6 Getting new connection feedback request
default 19:29:20.919911 +1100 com.twocanoes.WincloneHelper Executing "mkntfs --sectors-per-track 63 --heads 255 --partition-start 968466536 --quick -L BOOTCAMP
/dev/disk0s4"
default 19:29:20.919998 +1100 Winclone 6 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Creating NTFS Filesystem+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
default 19:29:21.923975 +1100 Winclone 6 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Analyzing source (this may take a while)+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
default 19:29:21.924054 +1100 com.twocanoes.WincloneHelper Executing "wimcapture /dev/disk2s4 - --strict-acls"
default 19:29:21.924176 +1100 Winclone 6 2.00 percent completed
default 19:29:21.928635 +1100 com.twocanoes.WincloneHelper Executing “wimapply - /dev/disk0s4”

Winclone GUI says ‘Analysing Source’

This is the second time it’s got to this stage and stuck. I’d love some help as this 2-3 hour job has turned into a 36 hour nightmare…

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interestingly the target machine has a Samsung 850 SSD same as this guy-

Unfortunately an intermediate disk image was the first method I had tried and it did not work

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ok I was mistaken, the copy was progressing. I thought it had stopped, but allowed it to run overnight. It was at 2% at 7:29pm and the next log entry was 10% at 1:16am.

Unfortunately it still didn’t work- I got a message that the copy had failed an integrity check at 4:47am and 97.30% complete.

I guess this implicates the source, so I’ll work on that.

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For some reason this worked on a 4th attempt, with no change to the Windows partition. I was unable to go onsite yesterday morning so I tried again because it was still set up and I had remote access.

Honestly I have no idea how difficult this operation is, but I do think the experience could be improved for users.

  1. one failure to restore was because my target was slightly smaller than the source- just got a generic error- a more specific error message would have helped a lot.
  2. The 6 page migration doc is well written, but I prefer more explanation of what is going on. Agree that this might be just me.
  3. Error messages all over the place for bad format types were just icing on the cake. If there was more info I would have been able to avoid some of these issues and saved a lot of time.

Without knowing more about what is going on inside the product I’d say the experience was more akin to a v1 product, not v6. But I’m glad it exists.