Migrating files off of failing harddrive

[Mark_29]

Got a windows 7 computer with an aging hard drive. Windows button is /very/ slow to load and event manager is showing about 700 disc errors an hour. Hard drive health didn't show up anything terribly concerning, but I bought a new hard drive to migrate everything over to. I tried to clone the drive, but it failed at the same percentage twice, so I'm guessing it's tripping up at whatever part of the drive is damaged. What I'm wondering is how to migrate Windows 7 onto my new drive without the aid of drive cloning, (Or, if there's a way to get around the parts of the cloning that are causing Reflect to fail).

Thanks

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

The hard drive is too damaged to clone, or to migrate the OS.

You should be able to retrieve individual files from it on another PC if you haven't backed them up already, but there's no way to migrate Windows to another drive, not now. Too bad you waited too long before trying to clone it.

Was Windows 7 pre-installed on the PC when you got it?

 

[Mark_29]

The hard drive is too damaged to clone, or to migrate the OS.

You should be able to retrieve individual files from it on another PC if you haven't backed them up already, but there's no way to migrate Windows to another drive, not now. Too bad you waited too long before trying to clone it.

Was Windows 7 pre-installed on the PC when you got it?

It was.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Right. Well you may be able to get a set of recovery discs from the PC manufacturer if you didn't make a set. Depends on the manufacturer as some of them don't supply recovery discs any more.

Failing that, you'll have to buy genuine Windows 7 with product key from Amazon, install it, then download the drivers specific to your model from the manufacturer's website.

What's the make & model?

 

[Mark_29]

Right. Well you may be able to get a set of recovery discs from the PC manufacturer if you didn't make a set. Depends on the manufacturer as some of them don't supply recovery discs any more.

Failing that, you'll have to buy genuine Windows 7 with product key from Amazon, install it, then download the drivers specific to your model from the manufacturer's website.

What's the make & model?

Asus CG5275.
I have the Windows 10 download, and the computer still runs relatively well once it boots. I'm wondering if there would be a way to get it to install Windows 10 on the second harddrive.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Once your Windows 10 free upgrade has been activated, you can do a "clean install" of Windows 10 on the same drive or on a different drive. So yes, that's the way to go if existing Windows drive is starting to fail.

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-do-a-clean-install-of-windows-10-1720775893