Got a new old machine with it on but wanted to repartition.
I copied the install to elsewhere and sure enough it failed to boot somewhere along the line.
Did get to grips with that and copied it back to another drive and its booting and running just fine.
Only problem I created was that the winsxs folder has all the system files and more and much use is made of hard links...of course my 'clone' did not respect that so now I have 2 copies of a hell of a lot of files. There seems to be a bat file around to sort this out and in doing so save oodles of space but not to keen to try it.
Fun and games but one point... such methods will most likely mess up the BCD for booting... only way I found to fix it if you dont have a recovery disk was using easyBCD run in XP...works every time. There appear to be no workable tools in linux to do this. Its actually neater than using a recovery disk anyway ...not a console in sight
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Just thought I'd join in
mike