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Cloning to new SSD from failing HDD
Hi all,
I'm working on my GF's laptop. It's an HP, and the HDD is starting to fail. I ordered a new SSD for her, but I'm having a hard time getting the old one cloned over; she has about 80G of data, and the old drive keeps crashing in the middle of processing! I've tried both cloning and creating an image (for several days now), but have problems with both.
The new SSD currently has an unnamed partition from the earlier cloning attempt, and I assume it has boot data on it. Then I have a G: drive with the "Recovery" data from HP. Then I have an H: drive that's empty, and SHOULD hold all of the old drive's C: data. I had to create the H: label manually under Disk Management; before, I just had the unnamed partition, then G:, then an unallocated partition.
So here's my question:
Since I have the unnamed partition, can I just manually copy C: from the old drive to H: on the new drive, then swap the drives? Would H: then automatically become C:, and everything work like it should?
Manually copying data is going to take forever, but it would at least let me pick up where I left off each time the HDD crashes.
If that won't work, what is a better alternative?