Need advice on replacing Toshiba hard drive

I have other manufacturers laptop with a Toshiba 60GB MK6021GAS hard drive. I believe the hard drive is on its way out and I want to pull everything off of the disk for restoring to another new one. I need everything from the drive because the OS image is one which was loaded by the company I contract with and apparently, the standard one which came with the laptop is not compatible with their applications which I also have loaded on the laptop.
I don't want to have to travel over 100 miles to the company's IT offices to have another OS loaded onto the new drive unless I have to, so what I guess I want to do is create an exact image of the existing drive, then restore the image back to the new disk when I get it.
I tried making an image of the disk using Paragon Exact Image 7 SE, but the download from the existing faulty hard drive to a DVD dump disk fails consistently, after copying 1.6gb of 8.32gb, reporting that the hard disk is damaged.
Another piece of software, Active SMART also reports that disk failure is imminent, reporting a "Bad" status for this disk. I have run chkdsk several times over the last few months on the hard disk and on a couple of occasions, it has isolated bad sectors. So everything points to the disk's days being truly numbered.
What I'd like to be able to do is buy another MK6021GAS hard disk unit, and get all the files from the faulty one onto the new one without having to reload the OS, application software data etc.
Is that possible? If so, what's the best way? How can I get everything from the disk if this Paragon software will not let me extract everything? Any advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Phil.

Thanks for the feedback fellas.
ActiveSmart is reporting that the drive is bad and failure is imminent because the "Reallocated Sector Count" attribute is not what it should be. From this, I'm assuming that any data, system or otherwise, was reallocated to another "good" sector, perhaps by chkdsk(?) at some point and everything that's vital is intact.
The PC is working as it should except that every so often (2 weeks can elapse for example), the hard drive starts to make an audible clicking noise which causes the system to stop. Sometimes, tilting the PC forward brings it back to life and everything carries on as normal, but just as often, the machine has to be switched off and left alone for a few hours, or a hardware BSOD happens. This suggests a mechanical failure of some kind to me.
Maybe I should add Norton Ghost to my toolbox anyway - I'm sure it'll come in handy again at some point and it sounds like I might be able to make progress with this if it allows the skipping of bad sectors.
Thanks again guys.

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You make me feel young, although I am taking RMDs on my IRA. In the past year I have swapped out HDDs in a PowerBook G3, iBook G3, PowerBook G4 12", PowerBook G4 15", iBook G4 14" and a MBP 15.4". I haven't done a MacBook, but you hardly have any screws of which to keep track they are so straightforward. No, I don't do this for a living; I do it for my children and grandchildren. I have never lost a screw or put one in the wrong slot. I use a very simple method to keep the screws organized so that they go back exactly whence they came. Next time try this:
I clicked on the pages of each step in iFixit directions which involved removing screws to enlarge, then printed out the pages. I poked holes in the paper where the screws were removed, poked the screws in the holes and stacked the pages in order in which there were removed. Reassembling was a lot easier.
Some of us do this to save money, some because we like tinkering, some because it is a challenge, and various combinations of those reasons. If a person does not feel comfortable doing this they can pay to have the professionals do it. We give people the information, and users choose how they wish to have it done.
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My Mid 2012 13" MacBook Pro recently was not able to boot on startup when I reset the NVRAM. I looked on the commands and there was something to do with a hard drive error. I had to reinstall OS X for me to use it again.
Since then my computer has been unusably laggy at times and performance has dropped. YouTube and other videos will lag uncontrollably and Minecraft runs at about 1 FPS. I am also running bootcamp and problems are consistent on Windows 7 as well. Do I need to replace the Hard Drive or just completely reformat it and reinstall OS X from a bootable disk?
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Here is the Service Manual showing how to replace a hard drive:
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It does have 2 SATA connectors. Here is a picture of the motherboard.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00069442&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en...
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You may need to enable the SATA ports in the BIOS if they are not currently in use. The motherboard picture page linked above tells how to enter the BIOS. Post back if you need more help.
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