Hard drive on Inspiron 620 begins to Miss - issues

I am a year out of warranty and my Seagate 1 TB drive begins to run out.  When I ran the diagnostic, I have errors during a targeted reading test (error code: WHD20-8OT), which suggests to me it's time to start looking for a new drive.  Nice to give me a little warning.

What would be the best replacement drive to get?  I'm leaning towards Western Digital, but is there something out there that is not suitable for this machine?  What happens if I want to get a really bigger drive?  There will be problems?

Above all, I would like to reinstall my operating system - how it works?  I would reflect not only the drive in a new because I do not know what could be compromised on the old disk because of his fault (even if I use it now without seeds) and I'd start rather cool anyway.  Unfortunately, the only discs that they suggest I do is a for Windows 7 64 bit repair disc - how can I get the operating system reloaded on a new drive that?  BTW, how a mirror a drive?  Set up as a slave?  I would like to make a few disks in the system, but how do you do that on these machines?  I've been looking and the only thing I found how to do is a system or a repair disc image.  They are more moved by OSs new readers?  Eeek!

I am fairly well supported and I am not too worried for my data, but I want as my Windows 7 and I realized that I don't know how to put on a new drive?  Is there somewhere on this site a great fool proof statement on the passage of the software operating system to a new disk?  I can handle the physical replacement - it is the operating system and programs I'm afraid I'll lose.

Ariel

What is a desktop system or a laptop?  What model?

There is a utility on the system that can make a recovery disk or a flash drive - it's either Dell Datasafe or Dell backup and restore, depending on the age of the system.

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