[Techtalk] dying hard drive

[Maria McKinley]

Hi there,

Asking for more advice... I have a disk that is definitely on its way 
out. When I boot, it has numerous unrecoverable errors (in the /usr 
partition), but it does boot up and run. What is the best/easiest way 
for me to transfer stuff to a new drive? In the past, I've had drives 
fail more drastically, so that I have to re-install, and then I pull off 
config and user stuff off of backup. This time my old disk is still 
bootable, so seems like I should be able to just move stuff over to the 
new disk before it fails completely. Would love advice on best way to 
precede...

thanks again,
Maria