>>4496053I'd say you have two options.
#1: If you have a spare HDD Window's own backup utility works just fine in my experience. If you're on 10 you access it via Settings > Update & Security > Backup. Select "Go to Backup and Restore (Windows 7). The tool works just fine on Win10 so they never really renamed it for some reason. I'd also say create a System Image on that drive as well. I haven't looked into online backup utilities honestly because I've never lost anything using the built in backup utility on Win10 or 7. If you don't have a spare drive then option 2 is my other recommendation.
#2: Pay $9.99 for Google Drive, that will give you 1TB of space, though depending on what you want to backup you could get away with the $1.99/100GB plan. Download and install the Backup and Sync tool for Google Drive and back up any folders that contain important items. What I would do is backup the DOCUMENTS folder and the entire APPDATA directories which will contain most of the settings you've set for applications. If you have Steam or any games make sure you locate any save files you want to keep and back those up as well. Assuming the HDD (if the shock from the drop didn't damage it that is) is near dead I'd reinstall on a brand new HDD and then reinstall all of your programs. Once everything is back to normal download and move all of the items in the backed up Documents/Appdata directories into the the new ones. That should restore 99% of any settings and custom profiles you had set.
The easiest method is the first one imo and the second doesn't guarantee you keeping everything but those are what I'd do personally. In the future take $60 - $80 and purchase an external HDD from WesternDigital or SeaGate, you can get a 2/3TB drive for that price and I'd make weekly backups of your entire system.
Sorry if I missed anything.
