Cloning iMac drive with Windows Partition

I have a new iMac, OS 10.5.3 with Bootcamp / Windows XP Pro on it as well. I have installed a number of applications and customized settings on both the Mac side and Windows side. I'm looking for the best way to "clone" or "ghost" the entire drive. If I use Norton Ghost, I don't believe that the Mac stuff will stay in tact. Has anyone done this successfully? If so, any tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan

I believe cloning utilities work with volumes, not drives. A partition is a volume. Therefore, I suggest you use a Mac cloning utility (such as +Carbon Copy Cloner+ or SuperDuper ) to clone the Mac partition. And use whatever is the utility for Windows to clone the Windows partition.
You would clone them onto separate volumes of another drive. If you get the same size drive, you can partition/format it the same way and clone from one drive to the respective partition on the other drive.
I've never done this, but that's what I would try to do if I had to do it.

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