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I just ran the Windows built in one , 
 
https://windowsinstructed.com/run-chkdsk-windows/
 
It repaired some bad sectors and then said all was good and since then I had only one crash. The disk is at 68 % and I can't really ditch anything from it. 
I found one on sale for $128 CAN so I ordered it. 
I'm not looking forware to the Cloning and see what happens deal. I've never messed much with W10. I still have my W 8.2 original disk if all else fails. 
 

The Samsung disk migration utility that came with my SSD did a great job for me.  If your new SSD comes with a utility, that is probably the best option.
 
Some backup/imaging tools also offer a cloning option. 
 
Disk imaging and cloning are very similar procedures, except for one major difference.  Imaging makes a copy of your disk into a file container, for archival or restore purposes, where cloning is a disk to disk copy.
 
A cloned drive should be ready to plug and play, where with an image, you would need to deal with restoring the image file to a physical drive first.
 
There are generally two options for connecting the new drive for cloning:
1. Use a spare SATA port temporarily if on a desktop PC.
2. Use a USB docking adapter for a 2.5" SATA drive (this would work in either a desktop or laptop).
 
After the cloning process is complete, just power off, swap the old drive with the new, and boot up! 

It also probably should be said, that if you have any plugins or any software with activation schemes locked to your hardware, you might want to de-activate them before swapping drives, just in case.
 
I don't think anything with iLok License Manager software activation would be affected, but some vendors have been known to have issues.
 

Try renaming aud.ini and restarting Sonar.  ( I have Octa-Capture)
 
This helped me a few times in the past.  Right now I am SPLAT latest, Win 10 latest, and I am running rock solid and have been for a few months now after a few rough months.
 
Biggest performance boost I ever got from anything was a SSD !
 
JR

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Try renaming aud.ini and restarting Sonar.  ( I have Octa-Capture)
 
This helped me a few times in the past.  Right now I am SPLAT latest, Win 10 latest, and I am running rock solid and have been for a few months now after a few rough months.
 
Biggest performance boost I ever got from anything was a SSD !
 
JR

You should read the thread.  The OP discovered his audio drive is failing.

That's okay. The only reason I haven't marked the thread "solved" is because I want to get a new drive in there and see if the problem goes away. Sometimes you fork off the path and find other problems. Grr.
 
Big ups on the previous suggestion of a USB drive dock. I keep an open USB extension on the desk and when it's backup time I just plug it into the dock and do backups.
 
I keep three drives: OS SSD gets a full image backup because it's, y'know, the OS. D Drive is my virtual instruments and samples for them drive. This gets a file backup I can dig manually into if necessary. E Drive is my active audio drive for SONAR, my personal samples collection, and video stuff. It also gets a file backup. 
 
I was shocked to find 1TB drives now go for just $50! Amazing. 
 
But back to my drive issue, CHKDSK completed and I noted several hundred file block repair attempts. I ran it with all three options active so I was expecting to see the next ping on it show it to have less capacity but it doesn't. That makes me suspicious.