Hey guys (girls?) I am helping my friend fix his computer and I have a question for you all. It seems as though his hard drive is about to fail as confirmed by the 2 SMART tests I ran on it. We have come to the point where the drive needs to be replaced. Here is my question, if I use disk cloning software to clone the failing disk onto a new perfectly good disk will the new disk have the same problems/errors as the old failing disk. As far as I know SMART only detects hardware issues so as long as some problems with the hardware on the old disk don't get in the way the new drive should be a-ok, right?
Thanks for your interest and help,
Nick
Thanks for your interest and help,

Nick