Hard Disk Failure - Please Help

Hi,
I have a HP probook 4730s. The laptop is 13 months old and the warranty has expired. The HDD has been laging lateley and also the system restore took, the last time it was ran took longer as usual, now at the startup i receive a message that the disk needs to be replaced. I ran several diagnostics on the disk and it found 2000+ bad sectors. I will go and buy a new HDD and replace it but i have some questions about how to make the new HDD function as the old one did. The system came with preinstalled windows home premium and there was no restore CD (DVD) that came with it. 
Please advise me on the following if possible:
- The existing HDD is 640GB 5400 from Hitachi. Does it matter what disk i buy. I was thinking of buying a 750GB, 5400, 8MB, SATA II 300
- The existing HDD has 3 Partitions. C - main, D - HP_RESTORE with the system restore image on it, and E- HP_Tools. How do i reformat the new drive to have the same configuration, since there are obviouseley some functions connected to the BIOS utilities. My wish is to make 2 paritions. One main 80GB for the system and the other with the remaining space for data. Can i just backup the HP_RESTORE parititon (D) with the system restore files to the second partition and run it from there.
- The system came with preinstalled windows home premium OEM i figure. Is there any way to make a clean install of just windows from the system restore file and not to install all the other HP application but just to chose the ones i would like or download them from the HP website and install them subsequently.
- How do i get the windows home premium key and where can i find the right version of windows home premium to do a clean install.
That i think about sums it up. I would like to thank anyone in advance who can help me to resolve this.
Regards!
Igor

You should have a Windows 7 OEM Key Code on the bottom of the laptop or inside the battery bay. The Key Code will work with a Windows 7 disk from Microsoft. I think with 200 bad sectors on the hard drive you are going to have a hard time getting any large block of data off the old drive without corruption so I would not try to clone the old disk to the new or try to work from the old recovery partition. If you can get to the old drive's data there should be an "HP" or "swsetup" folder at the root of the C:\ drive which has the original apps and drivers and you might try to save that. If the system can still be booted on the old drive you might try the HP Recovery Manager and see if you can still burn the recovery disk set it allows you to make. Yours should have the "modern" version that will give you the option of a factory image recovery or an OS only recovery. But with that many bad sectors I am skeptical you can get useable recovery disks off it.

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