Double-check whether a software CD came with your external hard drive. It may
contain a backup program. Recently I bought an inexpensive Maxtor internal
hard drive, and the CD with it contained a version of Acronis True Image
backup utility software along with Maxtor's "MaxBlast" software. Works great!

"Thee Chicago Wolf" wrote:

> >I've tried - several times - a full backup with Windows XP to an external
> >USB drive but the backup hung after backing up 20 gigs of files of about 27.
> >Why? What am I doing wrong?
>
> Did you happen to peek at the Event viewer and see if it says anything
> about abnormal termination or something else related to you issue?
> It's probable that there's something free out there that you could
> use. I am not an expert on back-up solutions so maybe someone has some
> advice on that.
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf
>