I have a HD from a Windows 98 machine (C drive-3.71 GB, D drive- 9.53 GB). I want to take it and make it into an external HD using a KIT of some kind with a USB plug on it. Then, use it to back-up a 55.8 GB HD in a newer computer with Windows XP, only 16.5 GB is presently used. It has home business information that I need backed up on a regular basis. I don't need to save the information on the old HD. Do I need anything special like additional RAM? SOFTWARE for the BACKUP to the external HD?
Thanks for your help in advance. you can use a USB to IDE adapter (find it on e-Bay), it will connect any hard drive, cd drive, flopy drive etc, etc, to any computer with an USB port, if you are using Windows XP all you have to do is pkug it in. I hope this helps.Sorry I ment Plug It In.... Backing up a 60G drive on a 12G external is going to be tight...even if the main drive is not full.
How often do you do backups ? ?
Have you considered a disk imaging program such as Ghost or Acronis True Image ? ?
The images can be burned to CD/DVDWe do back ups every 2-3 days.

Have not considered a imaging program like ghost. Would that be a better way to go?

This USB to IDE adapter that you talk about on ebay LOOKS like a cable only and I thought that it was a kit of some kind that you put an internal HD in (like a box of some kind) and that it has the USB cable coming out of it!