I have a HP Pavillion Dm-1 netbook that does the job for my needs Netbook model here
I heard some noise coming from the hard drive. I think it's going to fail.
The netbook is stock, no changes, all of HPs bloatware etc. All I put on is KAV and Office. The drive was partitioned by HP I presume, C drive and a D drive for recovery (never needed to recover anything yet)
Questions.
1. Should I back up the entire drive with Windows 7 built in backup program, image it, and then if the drive dies, I'll have a complete image to restore onto a new drive. Would this work??
2 Or if the drive fails, drop in new SSD and install only the software I want, fresh (like a new build)?
3. Is it possible to clone the drive I have now, and then install that onto a new SSD? I would think so, but I'm unsure of any challenges in doing that (going from a HDD to a SSD).
Any help/advice appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
I heard some noise coming from the hard drive. I think it's going to fail.
The netbook is stock, no changes, all of HPs bloatware etc. All I put on is KAV and Office. The drive was partitioned by HP I presume, C drive and a D drive for recovery (never needed to recover anything yet)
Questions.
1. Should I back up the entire drive with Windows 7 built in backup program, image it, and then if the drive dies, I'll have a complete image to restore onto a new drive. Would this work??
2 Or if the drive fails, drop in new SSD and install only the software I want, fresh (like a new build)?
3. Is it possible to clone the drive I have now, and then install that onto a new SSD? I would think so, but I'm unsure of any challenges in doing that (going from a HDD to a SSD).
Any help/advice appreciated.
Thanks in advance!