Clone Does Not Match Original

It should make an exact bootable cloned copy. I know your situation is with a laptop, but when I built my desktop, I installed two identical hard drives. I cloned the C: to the D: and have tested it numerous times. I just pull the data cable to the C: drive and it boots off the D: automatically when I turn it on and I'm computing away like nothing happened. Physically disconnecting my drive and letting it boot from the cloned D: copy should be NO different than you removing your "bad" drive and installing your cloned drive. Does this help? Probably not, but YES... You should be able to do what you want no problem. The ONLY difference I see is I'm still using Windows XP and you're on Windows 7. In fact, I have a question on this forum asking if True Image 10 is fully compatible with Windows 7. Still awaiting an answer...

Hmm...I haven't tried nor am I using Windows 7 yet, but here are my thoughts.

The cloning operation (at least when done on XP) ends up consolidating the free space on the cloned drive since after doing the shadow copy, the cloning operation then simply clones the rest of the drive by copying files. The end result is that the page file isn't cloned since it will be automatically recreated when you boot up from the cloned drive, and since the newly created page file will have the ability to be contiguous since the free space on the cloned drive was consolidated. So, that is a good thing. The creation of the page file only takes a second or two on bootup anyway.

I bet the other two files, boot and crash dump, probably are files which are freshly created every time you boot your computer. My guess is that these files aren't cloned since the idea is that the cloned drive should represent your present hard disk in an unbooted state. Anyway, this is just a guess.

Here are some tips:

I use ATI2009, so I don't know if your version has that new utility which clones the Volume ID from the original to the cloned drive. This is important since some software may tie its activation to the Volume ID of the hard disk. The freeware program, XXClone, has a utility which will clone the Volume ID from the original hard disk to the cloned hard disk. You would want to do this before running ATI to clone your hard disk. Don't use XXClone to actually clone a hard disk since the cloned hard disk will have issues. For example, Computer Management on the cloned hard disk will hang when launched. Yet XXClone's Volume ID utility is a life saver.

Make sure that you set the cloning operation to ignore bad blocks and sectors so that even if your present hard disk is failing then at least the cloning operation will get nearly everything cloned unless the present drive is in really bad shape. Last week, this saved a friend's business computer OS from having to be completely rebuilt from scratch since the internal laptop drive was dying rapidly. The cloning process went smoothly until it reached the last 10% of the nearly full hard disk. Then the process really slowed down since the drive was having great difficulty reading that last 10% of the drive. The cloning process did eventually complete successfully and all he lost were a few corrupted tivo and mp3 files which were on that last 10% of the disk.