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Dealing with a soon to fail 1T sata drive
Hello all,
Thank you for time and assistance.
Few days ago my system became extremely slow, I checked the HD status in "Intel Rapid Storage Technology" only to find, to my horror, my HD is reporting an error and it's at risk.
This laptop is 4 years old, I don't see how it could happen but all my professional life is on it. Yesterday I rebooted and it didn't find the desktop file at first, only second reboot helped.
Questions:
1) will defrag help, will it move stuff around to the better parts of the disk?
2) If I ghost the entire drive, isn't it true that it may copy corrupted sectors?
3) I am using less than half of the drive capacity. How do I "move" the windows installation, activation code, laptop drivers and all to a smaller drive if I don't want to buy a new 1T. This is assuming I can make a list or backup the rest of the software on my pc including activation codes etc.
4) Why ME????
Thank you again for your patience and assistance.
Y.