How to copy old HD to new HD?

[Magusigne]

Moving on up from a Spinpoint 500gb to a nice 1tb Caviar Black. With this purchase I also get this program Arconis True Image.

I'm wondering, due to the fact I can't find my vista ulti install disc if I can just clone the HD over to the 1tb?. Also I should mention that the spinpoint was having issues with some back sectors and then scandisc deleting bad sectors.

These errors don't get cloned over do they?

Will the clone work?

 

[Brutus04]

Powernick50,
I just copied my OS and data from a Maxtor to a new WD Black 500GB and the WD software worked like a champ; you can download it from their support website. Acronis will also do the same and I believe they will both check the disk integrity before copying. My "guess" is that they will not copy a bad sectore....anyone??

 

[graysky]

Use GParted live-CD which is freeware and kicks ass for hdd partition operations like this. Dunno for sure about the bad sector question, but I think not with GParted.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Brutus04
Acronis will also do the same and I believe they will both check the disk integrity before copying. My "guess" is that they will not copy a bad sectore....anyone??

I've heard that some cloning software can be set to ignore bad sectors. I haven't done any cloning of "bad" disks lately, so I have no experience with it.