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My suggestion would be to 1) use something that can clone the drive* so that you can just install the copy and pick up where you were if the original is damaged/missing, 2) remove the drive before sending it in.

* My preference is to load up a live Linux installation from a USB stick and do this using dd. But there are other less nerdy options, I think.

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Remove hard drive before sending, Reinstall on return?

Clone / backup and upgrade to SSD? (or just use external drive for backup)

http://www.howtogeek.com/199068/how-to-upgrade-your-existing-hard-drive-in-under-an-hour/

(they used this free software http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx )

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Plenty of free 'cloning' software (I've never found significant differences between the ones I've used).

If you need to go out and buy an external drive just for this purpose, if his laptop has USB3, try and find a portable drive that supports that. Way quicker and whatever makes backing up less painful makes routine backups more likely.

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Best practice would be to periodically clone a drive to minimize downtime from failure and to also, at the same time, be backing up folder's with files you care to save to another drive.

The Samsung clone software that came with a drive I recently got worked perfectly fine for this purpose.

Microsoft SyncToy works great for backing up folders - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15155

 

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