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Not sure you can clone a single partition as it is a direct copy HD>HD. Imaging is a better solution as you have a stored copy rather than having to keep the old HD as storage of itself.
You can image your choice of partitions although WIn7's backup imaging will require you to include the partition which contains the System MBR. Others give you that choice. I use Win7 Backup imaging for 6 home computers, with image stored in a primary partition on each backed up to external. No probs so far.
Also have Acronis for my XP/Vista imaging. It has a lot more choices but not ones I need for my Win7 images.
I like having the built-in imaging. The 100mb System Reserved partition places the Repair console on F8 Advanced Boot Tools menu, so I can reimage from stored image partition without the DVD/CD if there is enough RAM to load image into memory using F8 Repair tools. This means I could reimage my laptop on the beach if needed, but might need to use my stick to boot repair console if image wouldn't load into memory using F8.