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ucrdem

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1. If your primary HD is now the only copy of your data,

Reply to Galileo126 (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:45 PM

Oct 2016

I'd stop using it immediately. If it's gonna go, it's gonna go soon and take everything on your PC with it. Not irrevocably for eternity maybe, but beyond any simple copy operation. Since you have an empty secondary, why not exchange the primary with the empty secondary, load your OS onto #2, and then very carefully move your data from the former primary to the new primary? Then when you get the drive, you can either use it as the secondary or primary.

Basically you're taking your chances by running your PC from a failing disk and you want to focus on getting your data off of it before it tanks.

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If your primary HD is now the only copy of your data, ucrdem Oct 2016 #1

ooof Egnever Oct 2016 #2

hey thanks for the update. ucrdem Oct 2016 #3

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