I think the author is incompetent. Not only does Clonezilla work well, but I've also had good success with Macrium.
A windows partition that is non-bootable but properly copied can be fixed by booting to Windows install media (USB or CD), entering the recovery console and running FIXBOOT and FIXMBR in sequence.
A windows partition that is non-bootable but properly copied can be fixed by booting to Windows install media (USB or CD), entering the recovery console and running FIXBOOT and FIXMBR in sequence.