How to clone an entire disk with Lion ( Rescue)

Hello there,
I have a faulty (hardware-wise) drive in my 2011 macbook pro and will probably get a replacement drive from the vendor, but I was wondering whether there is (by now) a way (tool) to clone the disk completely, including the (main) lion-, its rescue- and finally the windows7 bootcamp partition without having to completely re-install both systems?
Best,
-Jörg

Carbon Copy Cloner http://www.bombich.com/
Clones Lion including the Recovery HD partition http://help.bombich.com/kb/troubleshooting/will-ccc-clone-the-recovery-hd-partit ion-on-lion and the contents of your BootCamp Windows http://help.bombich.com/kb/troubleshooting/can-ccc-back-up-my-bootcamp-windows-p artition but Windows will not be bootable.
CopyCatX http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=20 2&products_id=7 seems another one but I can't find anything on the Recovery HD there.
Same for Clonezilla http://clonezilla.org/
Stefan

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