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Pardon me if I sound lame here...but I have questions about how to clone a drive.

I'm using True Image 2016.  Windows 10.  Desktop machine.  My hard drive is making loud spinning noises.  So I'm assuming it is going to die soon.  I plan to replace it with a new HD and use the cloning function in True Image to replicate the drive to a new drive. 

My question is, how to I set up the target drive.  Do I:

1) install the drive into my PC and then clone the drives?  If so, how do I map things so that my programs see the new drive as the C: drive?

2) Clone the drive to the Acronis Cloud and then clone it to the new drive?  If so, do I need another subscription to Acronis Cloud? Or, can I clone it to some other cloud drive, such as Google Drive...where I already have a subscription.

3) is there some other recommended way to connect the two drives to allow the cloning to take place?

 

Go easy on me, please.

 

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1. Stop using the drive, immediately. The more you use it the more you risk data loss. Stop now.

2. Do not clone.

3. Boot from the ATI bootable Rescue Media, then perform a full disk/partitions backup, checking the checkbox for the disk so that it backs up the entire disk including all partitions. You will use that backup to restore to a new, replacement disk. Be warned that you may have already lost data and have corrupted files, so it may not be possible to restore everything.

 

 

As usual, "the" tuttle is providing excellent advice. Please do as suggested!

Unfortunately cloning can go badly wrong. Creating a backup and then restoring it to new HDD/SSD is the safest way to approach the problem.

Ian