Hard drive dying

[tracker]

My hard drive appears to be dying.I keep getting a warning to b/u etc.
Can I clone/copy my hd onto a ext drive ,complete with os?
I'm thinking that way if it does die I can fit new hd and load os from ext hd.

Its win 7 32 bit on a all in one
cheers

[incisor]

you can make a back up image of the hdd onto an external drive but it would take forever to boot if you could get it to boot from there..

Download Hiren (http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/)

is a cd full of utils to help you

Hiren (http://www.hirensbootcd.org/hbcd-v151/)

[tracker]

Thanks Dave.I want to have a copy so if the old hd shytes itself I can just boot up on ext hd and load copy to new hd..
Does that make sense ?:o

[incisor]

makes sense to store the image on a backup drive ...

[tracker]

makes sense to store the image on a backup drive ...
Yep, :)
I have a new 500gb seagate ext drive ,hard drive is 1 tb (using about 900gb) ,how do I copy complete drive contents to ext drive .(inc os).

thanks

[incisor]

Youll need a 1tb external i would think unless the image compresses really really well ...