Cabanaboy

I am replacing my faulty WD6400AAKS hard drive with the Black series WD6400 (bit faster). My current Hard drive works, but is slowly dieing after only 4 months of use. It won't spin up during boot, and throws an I/O read error.

So I backed up my hard drive last night to a cheapo Cavalry 250gb, choosing to backup the entire computer which was 61 gigs.

My question is 2 fold:
1.) When I install the new HD, do I just install Vista onto the new drive like it's a spanking new computer?

2.) Will Vista dispute my attempts to load all my backup'ed files onto the new hard drive? I know it can be fussy and I want to be ready.

Thanks for the help

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Motherboard: BIOSTAR TPower I45
Processor: Intel Core Duo 3.16 Mhz Wolfdale
Video Card: EVGA 9800GTX 512MB
RAM: G.Skill 4x2GB 4-4-4-12 Latency
HDD: Western Digital WD6400 640GB
Tower: Xclio Secc (2 x 250 MM fan)
PSU: 750W Antec Supply