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@limburger – at the risk of sounding like one of those new-to-this-platform-fanboys that bangs on about how great something is that everyone has known for a long time, just because it’s new to me, I was amazed at how easy it was to recover from a failing hard disk the other day.

I still don’t know why (other than I cheaped out and didn’t buy a branded one) but the ssd I had put in my machine was showing loads of bad writes in the SMART table and the hdd light was almost constantly on. I plugged in a new ssd (via a sata-to-usb cable) ran a simple one-liner from the Linux terminal and four hours later (I had lots of bad sectors) my entire machine, settings, apps, files etc. were painlessly transferred over onto the new drive, in a way that I’ve never managed with Windows.

Sometimes it’s nice to do a full fresh reinstall of an o/s and sometimes you just want to get back to your known working configuration as quickly as possible (I’d installed lots of weird VMs for running Windows XP for my shonky old laser cutter that had been painful at the time).

I’m not 100% sure. But I think I’m done with Windows now…

Hope all goes well with your upgrade, all the same.
It’s a nervous time if your machine is failing and you’re having to keep fingers crossed that your fixes actually work!