Replacing faulty boot HDD.

My 4 year old G5 has developed some hard disc problems. Catalog errors reported, fsck report IO errors in single user mode. I've made an external firewire boot clone via CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) & ran DiskWarrior. DW reports that it will not replace the structure due to detection of a disk "malfunction", but says its repaired other volume info.
Fair enough. I've got backups of all the important stuff.
My plan was to get a new internal drive, the original is a Seagate ST380013AS (80Gb), I can get a refurb one for £20 (I'm in the UK). This is big enough for our needs to I don't really need to go up in capacity but not opposed to if most cost effective.
My question is that would it be reasonable to mount the new drive, clone from the old to new via CCC, switch over to the new drive, recycle the old,
OR, is it wiser to reinstall from scratch onto the new drive, and restore the 3rd party apps + user data from the backups.
Its mainly the wife & kids use the G5 so there isn't much data apart from emails & browser bookmarks etc..
TIA,
David B.

DaddyPaycheck wrote:
Hi David_ B.-
"My question is that would it be reasonable to mount the new drive, clone from the old to new via CCC, switch over to the new drive, recycle the old"
That sounds like a wise plan indeed.
Thanks.
Do make sure to properly format the new drive first.
DiskUtility -> HFS journaled i.e. same as current. Anything more implied by "properly" ?
Luck-
-DaddyPaycheck

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