Replacing a failing hard drive

Dhess17

Commendable
Dec 5, 2016
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So I bought a new gpu and tried installing it and it wouldn't work despite being compatible with my system. So I took it to a shop and dropped 60 bucks to have them tell me the card isn't working because my hard drive is failing. They then tried to get me to pay 300 bucks for a new 1TB hard dive and an install to which I said no. Obviously...

I need some direction as to what I need to do to replace my hard drive. Do I need to buy a new OS or can I somehow transfer the windows 7 on my current hard drive to the new one I'm going to purchase? I know I need to check cable compatability and a few other things as well, I just need a general outline of what to do. Thanks!
 

RealBeast

Titan
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Before doing anything else back up any important data just in case the drive is actually failing, however, not being able to install a new GPU is an unusual symptom of an impending HDD failure.

Please provide some more details, what hardware models do you have (or specific computer model if it is a prebuilt machine), what GPU, and do you have a Windows 7 installation disk or recovery partition on the HDD.

Also, have you downloaded the drive test utility from the support site of the HDD manufacturer to determine if your drive is actually failing?