How can I copy my old hard hard 'C' to the new reader, "C" drive reports an error and I can not clone!

My 'C' drive is reported to be in danger of not, so I bought a new 500 GB drive which is currently housed in an external enclosure, my problem is I want to clone my old drive to my new but when I try an error is reported and the process stops.  I installed Win7 as an upgrade of Vista, so I can't mount the new drive as master, and then install Win7 because it will search the former Vista program before it will run. Is there a way I can install Win7 on my new record, at present in the external box connected via USB, and then exchange the reader to the PC to become my new 'C' drive and then individually copying my programs over the old 'C '?   I hope this makes sense, any help would be apprecisted.

Thank you, Peter pond in the United Kingdom.

If you have another hard drive, you can put in the case of external use Windows 7 builtin imaging app (Control Panel, Backup & Restore) to take a picture of the old hard disk Save external hard disk. You will also need to make the system repair disc to boot from to restore the image to new hard drive.

 

Once you're all set, install the new hard drive, boot from cd/dvd repair.

 

http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/4241/how-to-create-a-system-image-in-Windows-7/

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