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New SSD coming through.
Hello Forum,
SMART gave a warning today practically telling me to back up my stuff, my HDD is going down soon. I just ordered a 500GB SSD (same size as my OS HDD) which will come in on Friday, but I have some questions here..
I will most likely be cloning my hdd over tot he ssd, but the HDD already has unrecoverable bad sectors, is this something that will cause issues cloning the drive? The computer is fully functional, the only thing that happens is that the drive sometimes gets to 100% and a freeze up happens until it dials back down, but there are no noises, yet.
I am also aware that clean installing windows 10 on an SSD may be the best way to go.. in that case would it be wise to install the SSD on windows 10 before doing the clean install and just opt to install on the SSD instead? Will this require a reactivation considering I have an upgrade license?
Or would it just be better to clone the drive, backup my data into a more reliable HDD, and then reinstall windows onto the cloned drive?
Thanks for the help!