Gday Damien
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However if you are trying to put a close to 80gb image onto a 80gb disk then I would say that it's cutting it a bit fine as some backup software may need a little extra space for buffering
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Buffering isnt a problem as my W7 box has heaps of space, and i was simply going to attach the W2K ide drive via a USB adapter, and simply clone the image. Also, i have less than 50% usage on each drive, but the cloning software says the partition sizes need to be same or less.
ie stored image size vs required image size can vary depending on how it is imaged. Not sure how smart they are re dumping a couple of MB of unused bits when re imaging. That doesnt bother me as i can always reset the partition sizes after reimaging.