damaged Dell drive and Ghost help requested

I have a dell dimension 8100 - with a damaged hard drive
Have received the dreaded
WARNING - Dell's Disk Monitoring System has detected that drive 1 on the
primary EIDE controller is operating outside of normal specifications.
etc message.

I checked with Dell and it failed the tests
I have bought a new drive
I have copied all files from the drive to a La Cie - which is also where I
want to ghost an image

I have bought a Ghost 2003 which has installed but will not run
It gets to the Ghost will now restart your computor and hangs

I know nothing about all this so if I am missing info please ask
But I am getting the impression that although the computor will run existing
programs it is not going to run a new one as it is danmaged???
Is there any way I can get it to run Ghost [ which will obviously be quicker
than uploding all the programs and files by hand]
I can see that a completely clean start also has its advantages but would be
grateful for any help and advice

thank you
Callie B