Need help replacing dying Hard Drive

[Dephos]

I'm going to buy a new hard drive since the one I have right now freezes every hour or so. But I need help on the steps on how to copy it and get the new hard drive working. I have the installation disks for my OS, Motherboard and my graphics card, but do I really have to reinstall them all? Also I only have a windows 7 disk and my current OS is Win10 because I upgraded it for free, how would I get win10 again? Thank you.

 

[hang-the-9]

If you upgraded to 10, all you need to do is make a Windows 10 media from MS site, boot from that media after you install your new hard drive and run the setup. Then you can copy your files from the existing drive onto the new setup. You may want to copy your files now to an external drive while your hard drive is at least partially working. Also, how do you know it's the drive causing the freeze and not something else?