I recently bought a new Hard Drive and cloned it using Diskcopy 2.3. Everything appeared to work normally for a few days, and then the new HDD just stopped working. So I put the old one back in, and lost a few emails. No harm done.

So I am going to try it again, but with different software.

People have recommended XXCLONE, but this doesn’t work with Vista
People have recommended ACRONIS true image, but this costs money

So I kept searching, and I found the new Seagate DiscWizardedfa which is based on Acronis, but is free. So if you need to copy your entire HDD ot a new one, you should consider giving this a try.  The new HDD is up and running again. Fingers crossed it stays working.