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My preference: I never clone drives.
Your 2nd sentence describes what I do. I buy a new drive and install the operating system and all my programs on it. I use the "old" drive as a secondary and copy over only the old data that I really need. I will admit, though, that I obsessively keep all the program and driver discs so I never have to worry about that.
I *LOVE* how much that fresh OS & Software install speeds up the computer after all the errors and fluff have been purged! It's like getting a new computer.
Oh wait, now that I re-read your 2nd sentence -
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