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Hard disk is failing, how to change to a new hard disk?
My hard disk (C drive where the windows 7 is) is going to fail soon. It has some bad sectors and some corrupted parts and I encountered blue screen that says something about hardware failure. When my Acronis is doing backup, Acronis stopped half way because it cannot access some sectors to do the backup, it was fine previously.
I can still login to windows (depends on luck).
1. I want to change to a new hard disk, what is the best/fastest way to do it?
2. If I copy the whole disk to another new disk, would I encounter problems copying half way since there a
3. Will the data copied to new hard disk be incomplete since there are bad/corrupted sectors on my old hard disk?
4. My old hard disk is 1TB WD Black. What should I use for the new hard disk? Does it need to be same size and model?
Thanks a lot. Greatly appreciate your help.
(I do know how to change a hard disk and reinstall Windows 7 (Windows 7 updates took a long time) and install all programs again and setup again. That would take a few days so I am wondering if there is a faster way.)