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Hard Drive dying on me, need help!

CyDone
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Ok, so my old WD HDD is dying on me.  Out of the blue, about a week ago, it spun up and sounded like something was grinding gears in there.....like REALLY bad.  Thought one of my GPUs fan blades had broken off or something and was spinning around in there lol.  Well, I'm gonna get another 1TB storage drive to replace it......but I was wondering.  Is there any low impact, free, software out there that can take like an "image" of the drive and safely transfer over all the files to the new HDD once it gets here??  Or I'd be open to any other ideas.  Thanks guys and gals

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Just now, fuzz0r said:

CloneZilla can do this.

is it free and relatively fast?  Cause IDK how much more life I can get out of the old HDD.....every time I plug it back it....well it sounds awful.

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Just now, CyDone said:

is it free and relatively fast?  Cause IDK how much more life I can get out of the old HDD.....every time I plug it back it....well it sounds awful.

It is completely free.

As for fast, it goes about as fast as your system allows.

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