Don't assume you can completely clone a hard drive.
On every hard drive there is a maintenance track (not accessible by the operating system), which has information about the device's serial number, bad sectors, sectors/tracks, etc. For example, if the disk says 63 sectors per track, that is really an average, the tracks on the outer tracks have more sectors, and the tracks closer to the center have fewer sectors (otherwise the bits on center sectors would too close to each other and overlap). Don't assume Ghost, or any other cloning software, will copy the maintenance data -- they don't. They work with the drive's logical content and merely copy from the absolute sector zero (MBR) to the last sector. If you image a drive, that's all you copy. If Dish receivers can access the maintenance track (and why shouldn't they?) they can easily determine if the disk is cloned and not original because unlike the OS, they can see the maintenance track and imbed ID data from the original physical device.
When using Ghost, if it sees a new clone, it asks you if you want to mark it. If you do, Ghost puts its license's serial number on the absolute second sector (following the MBR, the rest of the track is normally left empty). If you're doing a forensic clone, the serial number will change the MD5 and SHA1 hashes for forensic purposes (the original wouldn't have had a serial number in the second sector). Trust me on this, there is a reason images created by Ghost are inadmissable in court. No cloning or forensic software I work with (strong statement, so I humbly stand by to be contradicted) analyzes the maintenance track.
Bottom line: cloning software works independent of of hardware. That is why you can "Ghost" a hard drive from a Seagate to a Western Digital, or from a 20G to a 500G drive. Assume sophisticated systems can tell the difference from an original drive from a copied one. If your cloned drive doesn't work, there may be a good reason for it. As far as I know (please be gentle in educating me) there is no simple way to clone a drive content's and its maintenance track with off the shelf software.
As I edit this, another post has been posted ("Pepper"). I'm not editing to try to invalidate his comment, just to cover up that after all these decades I still can't write proper English grammer.