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hard disk partition question?
So long story short, the HDD where my Windows 10 system is located is dying, found 21 bad sectors today and works intermittently. I plan on buying an SSD and installing a fresh copy of Windows 10 on it without removing the old installation and without removing the dying disk yet (there's a C: partition on the dying disk for Windows, also a D: partition for storing other files), which I will do later. Is there any way to allocate the SSD as a C: partition without losing the data on the dying drive and then change the old C: to another letter, or do I have to first change the dying disk's system partition from C: to something else and then make the new installation? Thank you in advance!
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- smgray99Lv 711 months agoFavorite Answer
Pull the old drive. Insert the SSD and install Windows. Reinstall the old drive and copy what you need from it then trash it. 21 bad sectors is the sign of a dying drive. You can expect the other partition to begin failing as well.
- Anonymous11 months ago
If you'd rather, you coule clone the drive with a bootable program like Clonezilla. The trick is you may have to shrink the size of C: Drive partition, in order for it to match the target drive.
Since it seems as if the files are important to you, and you can't afford to lose them, I would suggest moving the files to a Thumbdrive or External drive. Then you can just copy them to your PC once you have installed Windows to your new SSD.
- Anonymous11 months ago
You could create a "mirrored" volume, where all the contents of one drive are synchronized to another. This requires that the SSD is at least the same size as your existing hard drive.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-mirrored-vo...
I wouldn't waste time with that, however. I would just create a new partition on the SSD with some space left over for a Windows installation. Copy over any important files over, and then throw out the old hard drive and install Windows on the SSD. If you think the hard drive is dying, getting your data off of it should be your first priority, not installing Windows. "C:\" is whatever partition the currently running Windows system is on. Changing drive letters is unnecessary and wastes valuable time. You could have a thousand hard drives and install Windows on every single one of them and have them all in your computer at the same time.
