Transfer OS from failing SSD to media storage HDD

Rasta1

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Hey all I am having some issues and am in need of help. I have a 4 month old build with 120GB SSD & 1TB HDD.

Windows is giving me a message stating "Windows detected a hard disk problem". It's stating that my Kingston V300 SSD is failing.

As you'd likely know my OS(8.1) is installed on the SSD, the HDD has plenty of space. So I'm thinking it may be simplest and most cost effective to swap OS and everything from SSD to the HDD. I realize I'd be losing the benefits from not using an SSD, but I can deal with that later on.

How would I go about doing this? Do you have any other thoughts or recommendations?

Any help is much appreciated, thanks in advance.
 
Solution
Download and burn a CD with disk clonning tool line CloneZilla, and boot off that CD. It will let you create a single (or multiple) files with exact image from your SSD onto (much larger) HDD. You might also want to make separate file copy for future referecne

Rasta1

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Mar 28, 2015
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Thanks for the quick reply I appreciate it. I took your advice and cloned it, but what I decided to do was clone it to an external USB HardDrive, with a program called Macrium Reflect free version.

Hopefully Kingston quickly replaces the failing SSD and I shall clone it back to the new one and I believe everything should be as it was prior to issues.