Is it possible to Winclone Windows 7?

Hi
I have a i5 running Mac OS X 10.6.8, is also running Windows 7 on Bootcamp, it has a 1 TB drive that is partitioned 500 gb for OS X and 500 gb for Windows 7.
I am trying to use Winclone 2.3.3 to clone the Windows 7 partition but am not haveing any luck. I have seen on the forums that some people were able to do this. But I am not sure how.
Any help would be great!
thanks.

Thanks for the fast reply.
When I tried the steps on that page I got an error
"Errors found. Check log for details."
The log said
Thu Jan 12 11:51:11 PST 2012
=====backing up boot sector=====
/bin/dd if="/dev/disk0" of="/windows.winclone/boot.mbr" bs=446 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
446 bytes transferred in 0.010548 secs (42283 bytes/sec)
return value of /bin/dd if="/dev/disk0" of="/windows.winclone/boot.mbr" bs=446 count=1 is 0
current size is 104857600
partition id is 0x07
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument.
Failed to mount '/dev/disk0s3': Invalid argument.
The device '/dev/disk0s3' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument.
Failed to mount '/dev/disk0s3': Invalid argument.
The device '/dev/disk0s3' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?
Argument "" isn't numeric in multiplication (*) at /Applications/Winclone.app/Contents/Resources/winclone.perl line 282.
Argument "" isn't numeric in multiplication (*) at /Applications/Winclone.app/Contents/Resources/winclone.perl line 282.
=====Saving NTFS filesystem size==========
/bin/echo "0" > "/windows.winclone/size"
return value of /bin/echo "0" > "/windows.winclone/size" is 0
=====Saving partition id=====
/bin/echo "0x07" > "/windows.winclone/partitionid"
return value of /bin/echo "0x07" > "/windows.winclone/partitionid" is 0
partition format is MS-DOS
Could not find if volume is FAT or NTFS....Quiting
cleaning up: Mounting Disk
Volume on disk0s3 failed to mount
Thu Jan 12 11:51:14 PST 2012

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