On WIndows 7, so most installers won't install
Put the hard drive in another computer and copy the files off.
>>1548515how dying is "dying"?if it might crumble into dust any moment:1. take out the drive physically and give it a usb casing2. get a second blank external drive3. stick the two into a linux system and clone the drive to the blank external drive using ddrescue4. mount the cloned drive in linux and copy over the files
>>1548517freezes every few hours, crystaldisk shows this
It's dying, that's kind of the point of backing up. The idea is to do it before the drive dies.If it keeps freezing every couple hours, plan on backing up your most important shit first while you can not knowing if and when it finally does crap out and stops working at all.
>>1548520Are there any programs that can create a backup of a C:/ drive?
>>1548521Not while it's frozen, but the idea is that while it's working use Windows explorer and monitor it so that you continue the process when it glitches out and you have to re-start the copying process.
>>1548518yeah ddrescue it, you want to minimize any further wear to the drive while you still can read from it
>>1548522>while it's working use Windows explorerThat's stupid, just stop, you're going to damage shitOp, install Linux somehow, it's only to do this job, you can put it on a thumb drive or whatever. Then take a HDD bigger than your trashed drive and run ddrescueI hate Linux, but this is the only correct choice. If your drive wasn't shitting itself you'd have some Windows choices, but here you are
>>1548522>use Windows explorerIf OP insits on only using Win7, and copying files off, at least use Teracopy. It'll keep track of what has/hasn't copied, let you reattempt things that failed, and verify transfers
>>1548535I wouldn't say it's shitting itself. It's certainly worse butI guess I'm learning how to install Linux
Normally I'd also recommend Macrium Reflect, which comes with Hiren's BootCD, though truthfully I don't know how that would fare with a drive this bad
