Simply FORMAT the external drive, and use windows explorer to copy the file to it. The foillow the install instruction coming with Vista and install that, with all hardware drivers, reconnect external drive, copy files back (remnembering to reinstall...
Any one would work, they're all mostly compatible these days if you have USB or Firewire, although might I suggest to buy a hard drive enclosure and a hard drive, its a device which you can switch out the hard drive so if you buy a hard drive you can...
Well if this is a new drive it has no partitions and is unformatted. Right click my computer and select manage, then go down to disk management and click it. In the right pane you should see all your drives, simply select the new external drive and c...