Windows 10: Replace Failing HD - Macrium Reflect

Hi

My main boot disk is a 240GB EVO 840, I have a 2TB Seagate drive partitioned as D (1TB) & E (1TB) and a 240GB F drive.

The PC rebooted by itself today, when it restarted the Seagate (D & E) had gone. Couple of reboots later and it's back.

I tried to use Macrium Reflect to back it up and it returned:
Backup aborted! - Unable to read from disk - Error Code 23 - Data error (cyclic redundancy check).

So now I'm manually copying anything of importance from D & E to a 1TB & 2TB USB3 drive.

Once this is done I can do a chkdsk or scandisk... and then hopefully backup using reflect.

I've ordered a new 2TB disk which I'll collect on Saturday.

Once I have it what's the best way to swap out the Seagate for the new Toshiba drive ?
Ideally I'd like to keep it as 2 x 1TB D & E drives.

Thanks *Biggrin

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Loading an image (Macrium Reflect) of my C drive into a brand-new pc to retain browser settings, etc.

Thanks for the reply Gordon. So, connect the external HD that has the image, to the new pc, boot it up, and then run the 'restore' function of Macrium Reflect, for that particular image, is that correct?

 

Windows 10 apps and data backup

Yes, if you want to do a Clean Install of Windows you will need to re-install all the Apps. When apps are installed they write to the Registry which can't be written to with success from the backups.

If you wanted to make a restorable system image use Macrium Reflect - Free. Though that can't be used to add the programs to a Clean Install. only a full replacement for them.

How to Create a Full-Disk Backup of Your PC with Macrium Reflect

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/7363/macrium-re...