Help: Possible Hardware Failure

[Angrboda]

Clattering hdd definitely needs replaced before it crashes completely. The system image utility in windows should do fine. Plug in the new solid state drive and use the tool it will work fine.

That will help isolate the other problems. If u r aware the gpu requires a higher watt power supply then those are required changes. A new power supply is fairly cheap and easy to do. I would replace those 2 at a minimum then see where u are at

Here's an article on the process. I'm not familiar with creating a system image in Windows and so I don't know if it only backs up the system or the entire drive.

But apparently you can create a bootable USB stick to restore a system image.

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/create-...ge-backup/

In short, the two options are:

1. Use system image creation to backup to an extra disk, then restore to new disk;
2. Clone directly from old disk to new disk.