hard drive question

[Chidoro]

I started getting an 'error detected' message on my hd about a week ago. It started happening when I was trying to run a backup to my external drive. Then it went away for about a week but ever since my computer restarted last night due to the ms patch push, it has been doing it again.

I already bought a new 1 TB barracuda drive (same size as my old drive, didn't have much of a choice) internal drive, but will I lose all of my registries by just doing a backup? Can I mirror the drive and set the new drive as the goto drive in the bios on startup? I was directed towards Acronis but I'm not sure if True Image 2012 is a good idea or if Migrate Easy 7.0 would be best (or if there's a better solution altogether).
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/

Kinda pissed about this, never had a HD problem before and I have active drives over 10 years of age.

[Leonaerd]

I don't know much about hard drives, but I can't imagine you'd lose all your registries by doing a backup. I suppose it could depend on the nature of the errors you're taking.

[Aabidano]

A full backup with Acronis will restore on the new drive just the way it is, or you can migrate it with the same result. Did the same thing recently upgrading to a 2Tb drive. You don't lose anything, comes back just as it was before.

When you're getting that sort of error your life is generally limited on the old drive.

Co-worker was getting disk errors a couple weeks ago, a trip down to IT and a virus scrub took care of his.

[Chidoro]

Thanks. It took a bit of time because there were a lot of bad sectors during the cloning but everything looks to be in order this morning. Really impressed with the acronis and I'm glad I did it quickly per the severity eluded to here.

[miir]

Acronis is pretty badass.

[Aslanna]

For cloning/imaging activities I use Macrium Reflect. It's free!

Also... Seagate sucks.

[masteen]

From the ratings on newegg, all HD mfgs are having quality issues post-flood, WD included.