Solved Failing Hard Drive

I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with a hard drive that has finally started failing after 16 years. It's a 20gb 4200 RPM IDE IBM Travelstar. Anyway, I'm looking into buying a new IDE Hard Drive and doing a full transfer from the old drive to the new drive, but I have a Dell Precision M90 that had a failing hard drive and it couldn't complete the transfer because there was an issue relating to the old drive failing. I have pictures from the S.M.A.R.T. readings on the Precision's old drive, and S.M.A.R.T. readings from the Inspiron's failing drive. Please let me know if the errors occurring in the IBM Travelstar will prevent it from copying over to a new drive. On the Precision, I had to do a fresh install of XP and manually move most of my documents, and I really don't want to have to do that with my Inspiron.

The screenshot with the 160gb Seagate drive is the Precision's old drive. The screenshot with the IBM drive is the Inspiron's drive...


P.S., If it is of any importance, I use Acronis True Image that shipped on a CD with a Kingston SSD I bought once...

jmarket said:

Any errors at all will prevent a transfer. Looking at your pictures, your hard drive is near dead. You can use Acronis True Image to clone

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Do you mind telling me a bit more about what errors the hard drive is having? I'm not necessarily a "tech genius," I just like computers. So I don't know what those things mean...

gus said:

If you cant do what jmarket suggested immediately, at least take a system image.

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I haven't turned on the computer since that message. Waiting for my hard drive.

I'm gonna go ahead and mark this as solved so that no one feels obligated to worry about it, but I'll reopen it later if I have any problems...