A video for copying / cloning Windows 7 has been uploaded, this video also gives details on the hidden boot partition (Actually Microsoft call the partition containing the boot files the system partition - which is wrong in my opinion - see below).
http://www.aiscl.co.uk/videotutorial.php#copy7
A video will be made showing how to achieve the same using a regular backup job with the Restore CD.
For a description of Boot and System partitions please see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_par ... _partition
Barry