cannot create disk image of Windows disk because of small FAT32 partition at front of drive

I'm currently trying to backup a disk image of a recent Windows7 installation that I have, but the Backup & Restore wizard is not allowing it because there is a small FAT32 partition at front of drive.

The machine is dual booted, with an Ubuntu installation on a separate partition (this is why there is a 512 MB Fat32 partition in the front of all partitions which serves as a boot loader). The reason Windows7 will not back this partition up is because the format is not NTFS (Windows7 seems to require this), however I was not given the option to deselect this partition in the Backup & Restore wizard, therefore I can not make a system image.

I tried using Clonezilla for teh operation but it dint wuite work (I was successful at cloning the drive, however it would not load because the hardware configuration is different).

Does anyone know how I might go about making a system backup?

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