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I think you are MBR booting which is fine (I do) so I would choose a HDD no greater than 2TB otherwise you need to change your booting to UEFI/GPT - I wouldn't be doing this at this stage. Also you want a performance 7200 rpm drive.
Here are a couple of links to making your copy. The first is for Macrium 5 but is much the same as Macrium 6 and provides some guidance if you have booting problems. The second is a Macrium KB for V6.
How to Upgrade Your Existing Hard Drive in Under an Hour
It's going to take more than an hour.
Cloning a disk - KnowledgeBase - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase
Yes I am suggesting you move your larger files to another partition. I actually store my large data on separate internal HDDs since my OS drive is an SSD.
Nah, moving to an SSD is a piece of cake. We'll help you - for starters have a look at this:
SSD - Install and Transfer the Operating System
I see so the problem is just with drives bigger than 2TB.
Didn't know that!
Is there anything I can read about MBR/UEFI/GPT?
How do I change from one to another?
I just want to know the proccess to see if I can do it or not and plan which drive to get accordingly.
That Toshiba drive seems like a bargain!
Your motherboard is getting older now and it appears some people may have had problems upgrading their BIOS. You need to do your own google research. Given your motherboard and CPU in your specs I see no significant advantage in moving from MBR/legacy boot while you stick with Windows 7 only potential headaches. I'd focus on your original concern.
Frequent system images are recommended because it allows you to always backpaddle. And why frequent - because if you have to go back to an image of last year because that is the only one you have, then you lose a lot of the work you have done in the meantime.
I see. I guess I have to get a new computer sooner than I expected.
For now I'll look for a 1-2TB internal drive, maybe a 2TB one so I can use half of it as storage for system images and another half as data storage.
My current hard drive seems to be the weakest link in my system (Every component get a Windows score of 7.5 except the drive which gets 5.9) so I really want to get an SSD too.
When it's time to let go of this PC, I'll sell the old mobo,cpu and gpu and keep the same drives.
Anyway, I'm cleaning up a bit to reduce the used size on :C. I'll try making a system image using Macrium and see how it goes.