Take a regular Windows 7 clone with clonezilla (device-to-image) partition only

Solution 1:

I create images frequently and you can just create a device-to-image (so full, not just partitions). Whenever you need to restore, work with image-to-device. It will create a full backup.

You might encounter an error regarding partition table out of range (atleast, I believe that is the error). You can just run any live cd and use Gparted to fix the partition table.

Solution 2:

One solution to cloning Win7 that overcomes having to fix MBR or boot partitions is to re-install Windows 7 on the source computer under a single partition. Win 7 will not install the hidden boot partition when there is no unallocated drive space. You must have 1 continuous NTFS partition before installing Windows. After this the process of backing up with Clonezilla is then easy, you can almost take all the defaults until it requests the location of the backup media (ie. external USB drive) and clone/restore type. I've backed up and restored Win 7 images to new computers of the same type/model and the restored computer boots perfectly.