MatthewHSE - 4:53 pm on Feb 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

My hard drive has been going belly-up all this week. I can still work, but I keep getting I/O messages and things that used to take a few seconds are taking a lot longer. The hard drive is about five years old, so it's probably nearing the end of its budget-priced life.

I've got a new Raptor drive coming, but I'm hoping to avoid a full reinstall of Windows and my programs. I have Acronis True Image and have been planning to clone the old drive onto the new one.

But if I do that, is there any danger that I'll simply be cloning the disk errors over to the brand-new drive? I'd hate to replicate the problems onto my shiny new 10K RPM drive! ;)

Thanks in advance for any thoughts or advice,

Matthew