HDD Probably Dying -Quick Questions

[Jongo]

So the last couple of days my hard drive has been locking up randomly and I've had a hard freeze today. Just ran hdtunepro as recommended somewhere else and there is some quite worrying speed drops where im guessing the bad sectors are.

Anyway Just wondering is it possible to clone my current hdd to a new one even if it has some bad sectors?

Also anyone know what the Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s is like? is it quiet? I've never had any experience with a WD drive before.

Thanks In advance chaps

 

[wonko]

There's no image showing in your 'spoiler' code, but I'd be backing up all my personal data as a priority and then taking the opportunity for a fresh install. If you have got bad and unreadable sectors then copying files will tell you which are corrupted as they are read - if you clone the drive then (depending on what you use) you could end up not knowing what's corrupt on the new drive.
I've no first-hand experience of the blue, but WD make good drives.

 

[Jongo]

Most of the stuff I have is backed up to my external hdd, just need to get some steam stuff backed up next. Probably a fresh install is best just need to find my win 7 disk :/