HDD is going bad. Best way to transfer to new HDD?

[ingeborgdot]

I have windows 10. One of my hdd is going bad. It is my doc, pictures and other things. No OS. Should I use a cloning software? Should I just copy and paste? What does everyone use to get this kind of info and not an OS from hdd to hdd? Thanks.

 

[bazz2004]

I bought a hard drive copy stations quite a long time ago to move my old desktop running XP3 to a new and much larger hard drive before there were any problems with the drive failing. It seemed at the time a bit of an expensive solution but it was dead easy to use. Since then I've used it a number of times to move from a standard to an SSD drive with my other computers. It works so easily that I'm very pleased that I bought it. The only drawback is that you can't copy from a larger drive to a smaller. I don't think you'll have any problems finding other solutions though.