Replacement HDD question

capsam500

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Bought a new HDD to replace my old one that is dying, was wondering if replacing it would be as simple as just copying and pasting the files across and changing the drive letter? It's a non OS drive as my OS is on an SSD so would purely be used as a storage device for files.


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Hi there capsam500,

Yes, as long as it is not your OS drive, you can just: attach the new drive -> transfer all the data from your old one to it.

How do you know that your old drive is dying? Have you tested it? If you haven't, here's a thread on that: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

Sometimes, writing zeros on a failing drive, could slow down the degrading process.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD
 

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ive used Crystal disk solution and its giving me caution errors on the drive and it does seem to be getting a bit slower than it used to aswell. Also its a reconditioned hard drive which came with the pc whihc makes me thin the life of it has been reduced further because of that also but yeah i can definitely tell its getting slower
 

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yeah i guess i could.

thanks for the suggestion :)