Win 7 Ugrade, Update, Backup and image errors

[Sysnative Windows Update]

That's my point. You shouldn't ghost a bad drive. It will lead to problems.

 

[Arbitro95]

So restore from an image? How else do I save the info?

 

[Sysnative Windows Update]

No, you should manually copy the documents you need from the drive, pull it out, replace it with the new one and install a fresh copy of Win10 onto it. After the install, just copy over the data you saved.

 

[Arbitro95]

But this would require a complete reinstall of all programs as well. Many of which do not have original installation disk or have had numerous updates/patches installed since the original. It was this kind of mess I was trying to avoid.

 

[Sysnative Windows Update]

Yes. You can try cloning, but I would really not recommend it as I've seen and had to deal with very difficult issues that stemmed from cloning the bad drive that took months to fix in some cases.