Copying a hard drive

I am using Windows XP. I recently purchased a Western Digital 120 Gig USB external hard drive. My intention is to back up the drives here on my machine and then go back and weed out a lot of stuff that is consuming a lot of space. My hard drive is getting full , Some of the stuff is not essential,but I want to keep it if needed. What would be the easiest way to accomplish this plan?

 

Try HERE read carefully and download the utility you need. HTH.

 

Having just dealt with a similar problem, I think a far better (though admittedly more expensive) solution would be to buy a copy of PowerQuest's Drive Image 2002, available on PriceWatch.com for $28, including shipping.

DI is highly flexible, with one of its best features being the ability to extract individual files from backups, using the included Image Explorer.

Jim

 

Thanks all. I solved the problem. I opened the new USB drive on my second computer. It had USB2 in it. Then I opened the other computer's hard drive through my network,reduced both pages so that I could have them side by side and just dragged and dropped everything where I wanted it to go. I was very fast. Thanks