I next swapped the old HDD with the new SSD and powered everything on. Macrium Reflect reported the I/O performance as being 115.1 MB/sec for the read and 245.0 MB/sec for the write.Īt some point during the cloning process the “Activate Windows / Go to Settings to activate Windows” message appeared in the bottom right corner of the screen despite this system having been activated with a Windows 10 Pro digital license since July of 2016. I observed the maximum read rate on the failing HDD at 18.3 MB/sec while the maximum write rate on the new SSD was 18.9 MB/sec. The cloning process took 6 hours 29 minutes and 20 seconds to complete and went much smoother than I anticipated. My reasoning for this was there was no sense making a dying HDD work unnecessarily so I might as well just go ahead and clone it and hope for the best. I decided to use Macrium Reflect Free and utilize the clone option without first making any type of backup or image. If any further info is required, please just ask as I didn’t want to provide anything unnecessary or irrelevant to the problem at hand.įirst of all, thanks to all for your advice and suggestions on this matter.
Any software recommendations to accomplish this are also both welcome and appreciated. At the rate the current HDD is performing, however, I fear this task will take many hours or possibly days to complete. The failing HDD has a total of 198 GB of used space. I want to be able to put the new drive into the laptop and have it configured exactly as it is now. I’m obviously going to have to replace the failing HDD in this system before it completely dies, but I have never done anything like this before and am wondering if the failing HDD should be imaged or cloned? I’m unclear what option to choose here and which of these methods would be the fastest and most efficient way to accomplish a complete drive backup. Task Manager reports the disk usage is always at 100% regardless of whether there’s a program running or it’s idle. There is a noticeable delay in when attempting to launch installed programs ģ. It takes a long time for the system to boot up and shut down Ģ. The main culprits for me coming to this conclusion are:ġ. I have an old laptop running Win 10 Pro which I’m confident has a HDD that is on it’s last legs.
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