I'd agree with Zero, I would do a new install (did it recently on my PC, pretty straightforward and half the size and now much faster.
I'd consider whether I really need a 1Tb drive - 500Gb would probably be ample - but it really depends what you are doing with it. SWMBO's laptop, used mainly just for browsing/email/Office, has (I think) a 250Gb with room to spare. But then she doe have access to a NAS for additional storage of required. If I had large collections of chunky stuff like music or video I'd be storing that externally anyway but then myu needs are different to yours.
if you do want to close, Macrium Reflect Free Edition does the job nicely.
T&E would the enclosure you linked possibly require an external power for an HDD? I use a cable like this tinyurl.com/y7z3vvl5 quite successfully.
If you do end up with a new drive, if it were me once the new one is all working fine I'd do a Windows error check/fix on the old one and then keep it as a (albeit potentially unreliable) backup disk.
A last thought - presumably it doesn't have a D: drive, which would be a partition on the C: drive and therefore will disappear when you replace the drive.
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