I went through the rounds of 'freeware' as well as 'comes with the hard drive' cloning software last year when I had a drive that ended up with some bad sectors.

The only software I found that would soldier through the bad sectors while making a clone was EASUS' disc copy software.

Then their free partitioning sofwtare worked a treat as I was cloning a 60GB drive up to a 250 GB drive.

http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

http://www.partition-tool.com/ Use the home versions of both products for hassle free 1-2 punch.

No, I don't work for them, but these worked much better than the bundled acronis that came with the seagate drive. That version would not copy through the bad sectors.

-Scott