Could someone tell me how to clone my hard drive please to a new hard drive?

I have tried several programs but they either don't work or they wont find the new hard drive.

I have heard Norton Ghost is good to use but don't have the money to buy it.

I need to be able to format the new hard drive aswell as I tried to install Vista on it using discs that HP supplied with the replacement hard drive but it installs but stays on something called 'HP One-time setup process' and doesn't come off of it.

So I need a program that can format the hard drive aswell as being able to clone the hard drive aswell.

Should I give Norton Ghost a go? Does Ghost transfer the files over or does it make a archive file?

Cheers.

1 thread should be enough:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1034889#post1034889

I made this one first. But I thought I would get a quicker answer in the computer systems section so I created one there.