Migrating all my stuff off of a failing hard drive

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  • Lardalish
    PCHF Member
    • Dec 2016
    • 20

    #1

    Migrating all my stuff off of a failing hard drive

    Ok, so my main Hard Drive is failing. I have a new one that is much larger and a small SSD. I would like to move everything from the old hard drive to the new one, and move my operating system (Windows 10) to the SSD. What is the best and easiest way to do this? I just finished cleaning up my system with a whole bunch of cleaning software and following the suggestions in the malware area of this site. Thanks guys!
  • Rustys
    PCHF Member
    • Jul 2016
    • 7862

    #2
    Make several backups of you personal data to an external storage device using Macrium free [COLOR=rgb(255, 128, 0)]HERE[/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(255, 128, 0)] and Aomei free [COLOR=rgb(255, 128, 0)]HERE[/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(255, 128, 0)] are very reliable backup/image software offerings. thanks @gus

    You can also Copy and Paste the information form the failing HDD to an external storage device.[/color][/color]

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    • system
      PCHF Owner
      • Jan 2015
      • 7634

      #3
      If you take an image of your existing drive using the apps above making sure to include all partitions you will have a copy of whatever you need. Also both of those apps have a clone feature especially for getting your data from one hard drive to another.

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      • Samuria
        PCHF Member
        • Oct 2016
        • 86

        #4
        Your best off doing a clean install of windows to the ssd problem with a failing drive if you clone it it copies the sectors marked as bad and writes them to the new drive. A clean install will ensure windows is optimised for ssd

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        • veeg
          PCHF Director
          • Jul 2016
          • 8978

          #5
          Do you have an update for us?

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          • veeg
            PCHF Director
            • Jul 2016
            • 8978

            #6
            Do you have any updates for us? After 48 hrs this thread will be closed.

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