Before anyone tells me to Google it: Yes, I know how to actually clone hard drives, but there's one detail I'm a little fuzzy on:
In Macrium Reflect, it allows you to realign the partitions to Windows 7 defaults (1 MB). The hard drive that originally came with the XPS 9000 has 3 partitions: 1st) an OEM, 2nd) Recovery, and 3rd) OS Partition.
Macrium aligned the Recovery and OS Partitions to 1 MB boundaries, but not the OEM partition, which is the first partition on the hard drive. Is it ok to realign the OEM partition to a 1 MB boundary as well? Or will the BIOS not be able to boot Windows 7 correctly if the partition is realigned away from its default of 32,256 bytes?