I was advised towards Acronis, but unfortunately I won't be able to do that. I'm a college student, and I have no spare cash at all. As such, I won't be able to use the full version of Acronis without having to resort to going all yar-har fiddle-de-dee.
Okay, so I've hit a panic state lately, and I've came here. My laptop only recently started to do a BSoD with a KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR code. Doing checks, diagnostics, SMART readings through Speedfan, I've pretty much realised that this laptop hard drive is reaching the end of its life. After...