I have to give the EASUS folks the nod here.

I've done this process 3 times. One of the times the drive I was cloning had bad sectors and it stopped Acronis in it's tracks as soon as the bad sectors were hit.

You'll need two products from EASUS (free by the way).

1. Their disc cloning software: http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/
2. Their partitioning software for after the clone since you are probably cloning a smaller drive to a larger drive: http://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html

I should mention that the version of Acronis I was using was one bundled with the new drive - can't recall if it was a WD or a Seagate drive. Easus saved my rear end - powered through the bad sectors and allowed me to let that PC survive another couple years.