HELP ME PLEZ!!!!!!!

[Wuzzly]

Ok here's the jist of it, yerterday, 9/25/02 my comp went dead on me, it suddently craped out and died. I tried rebooting and it said "read disk error press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot" and all that crap, didn't want ot do it, called Dell and talked through some stuff and got it working, then an hour later while i'm playing Diablo 2 LOD, it comes up with a blue screen o death saying I have a bad sector.....which we all know's means we are ....well...screwed, dell is sending me a new HD BUT i'm trying to figure out how to transfer all my files form this hard drive to my new one....i'm trying to type fast cause i'm not sure if my computer is going to die on me again....and it's only in one part of the sector that is bad but it can spread to others and that kinda sucks cause i've had it happen before and yes i've replaced the master boot record but it doesn't want to start window's XP for me sometimes when i reboot....it only does it now and then.....so i'm kinda scared to leave my computer, let alone leave it running or shut it down......i jsut searched the net and found a free HD copier...so i can copy all my info to my new one...NOW FOR MY QUESTION!!!!
If I use this copier to copy all of my HD to the NEW HD, will it bring along the bad sector with it.....or will it be ok............This really has me concerned because I really don't want to do that but I also have alot of nice stuff on here and alot of stuff i've put alot of time into it......I have a 64 bit crack code that I was able to write in VB 6....kinda sorry hacker junk but i'm proud of it and alot of my school work and work work.....so can someone plez tell me that if i Use this HD copier prog, will it bring the bad sector over or is an actual Physical problem on my HD and it shouldn't affect the new HD....?!!?

 

[wolluf]

Bad sector is physical problem on current disk - any data in bad sector can't be copied (so you will lose a little data - hopefully nothing important) - won't affect new drive.

 

[keithschm]

When you get the new drive hook the new drive up as master

then install windows on the new drive

then install the old drive as a slave.

copy all needed files (data only. never copy programs reinstall them)

then return old drive back to dell (if they want it)