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I'll just jump in and jump right back out.
I've used Macrium to completely image every partition on a drive to an external, with verify. NOT cloning, partition imaging. Then replace the main drive (SATA 0), plugged external back in and drag 'n drop using Macrium back to the new empty drive. Nothing done to new drive to prep. Booted right up.
It's not hard, but a little time consuming.
Time is what you do not have a lot of right now. The longer you wait to do the process, the greater the risk. That risk is going to increase geometrically.....meaning tomorrow will be twice as risky as today. 2 days out, 4 times., etc., etc. Do as simrick and dalchina advise. Get a decent spinner replacement and external. Do the process before you can't. If it's borderline too late already, simrick's plan B is in order.