Installing and formatting new HDD

The HDD on my two year old MacBook Pro has gone bad, probably defective from the beginning.  Anyway, I live in another country, but had someone bring me a new HDD (upgrading from 750GB to 1TB).  I have already unistalled the old HDD and installed the new HDD.  Now I am trying to clone the old HDD.  I have had some problems using Disk Utility.  Not sure if I should have cloned the old HDD before unistalling it?? 
Also, I have read several discussions involving Carbon Copy Cloner. I don't really understand how it works/how I would use it in my current situation.  Should I purchase the software? Will I have to back the computer up to another external HDD using carbon copy cleaner, and only then be able to clone it to the new drive?

rogers2nica,
if your old HDD has gone bad, then cloning it would also clone its faulty areas. The time to clone (and make other forms of backup) is when the source drive is working well. If you’re trying to salvage data from your bad HDD, then to minimize problems with your new HDD, you should install the OS and apps on the new HDD from scratch, and only salvage your personal data files from the old HDD.

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