A hard drive is the main component that the computer relies on. On the hard drive, the operating system is stored, also includes your pictures, videos, music, documents, etc. No operating system on...
It is not hard to recover your hard drive if you have a back up to your files. If you are willing to spend money you can fix your hard drive by visiting Geek Squad.
You can copy the files to the external hard drive simply by dragging/dropping them from the folders on your internal drive to your external drive. However, if you want a complete backup of your...