Migrating all my stuff off of a failing hard drive

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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!
 
Make several backups of you personal data to an external storage device using Macrium free HERE and Aomei free HERE 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.
 
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.:)
 
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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