Indeed, a failing drive can cause the computer to freeze. I have had that
happen to me before. The drive may appear to work fine, but have occasional
failures.

Your idea of cloning to another drive should work fine. I recently did that
for my own computer when I wanted to replace a drive with a new solid state
disk. In my case, I used the free program XML DriveImage, which I highly
recommend.

Good luck

Peter
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-----Original Message-----

Here's the problem:
C: drive is clicking and freezing at times.   Have to hold "off" 
button to turn off the machine.   No pattern on the instances.  Some 

My question is:
Can I take out the D: drive, install a New Hard Drive to D: and then 
clone the C: drive to the new D: drive using Acronis?   After that, 
take the new D: drive and install it as C:?    Will I be able to boot 
with that new drive as C:?

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