Over the past few weeks there have been signs that my HDD (the only one in my PC) is failing. It could even worse last week when I couldn't boot up a couple of times because the disk was 'bad'.
Is there anything else I can try at this point, or just keep trying the system image creation and hope I get lucky and it successfully completes at some point?
Assuming I do get it to successfully complete, would the next step be to physically hook up the replacement drive in one of the drive bays, and then use File History to load the created system image onto it? Or is it more complicated than that?
If I am unable to ever get the system image to successfully create fully, what is my next best course of action? I think I should still have the recovery CD that came with the computer.
Thanks in advance!
- I have a NAS connected that saves all my files.
- I have also purchased a replacement HDD (SSD).
- However, I don't have any saved system 'images', which I understand I will need unless I want to start with a 'fresh/clean' copy on my new HDD and have to install everything again from scratch.
- To that end, I did some research and found out about "File History's" ability to help create a system image.
- I have tried running it 3 times now (each time takes hours), the 1st time it errored out (reporting "Backup failed") around the 15% mark, the 2nd time it errored out around 95% but seemed to save a partial image in my NAS (I say partial because the size seems slightly smaller than the space I am currently using), the 3rd time it errored out sometime after 80% (I was sleeping so didn't see the exact point), but did not seem to overwrite the partial image from the 2nd attempt.
- Before the 3rd attempt I had also tried 'checking and repairing' my disk via right-click on the C:/, tools, and 'repair'.
Is there anything else I can try at this point, or just keep trying the system image creation and hope I get lucky and it successfully completes at some point?
Assuming I do get it to successfully complete, would the next step be to physically hook up the replacement drive in one of the drive bays, and then use File History to load the created system image onto it? Or is it more complicated than that?
If I am unable to ever get the system image to successfully create fully, what is my next best course of action? I think I should still have the recovery CD that came with the computer.
Thanks in advance!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop