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All drives fail; it is only a question of when your drive will fail. If the data is important to you, you make backups.
I use and recommend acronis true image. There are free programs available however IMO acronis is far superior to the free ones. The only free imaging program I use is clonezilla which is linux based AND not the easiest thing to use however it is very reliable and has never failed to restore an image for me.any utility you think would be best to make system image and restoring the same to the new replacement hdd??