In regards to what I have coming up this weekend with a clone; I am working on an older desktop which has a bad hard drive and I am ultimately looking to clone it to a new hard drive that is on the way. Now looking back on page 5 of this topic I see it mentioned that it will actually transfer the bad blocks of data over as well since it is doing a bit to bit copy so what is my best approach for cloning this old drive to the new one somewhat error free.

Right now I have had GRC SpinRite running on it for 68 hours and it still has 256 hours remaining (it's only 18% complete). But what measures should I take afterwards for best cloning results. Should I look into "ddrescue" as mentioned on page 5 and then run dd with the "noerror" switch?

Any direction would much appreciated. Thanks in advance.