Hi

My Dell Dimension 8400 has been working strangely recently and several things have gone wrong (eg. no taskbar, startup takes a lot longer). Theefore, I have bought an external hard drive and want to back up all of my data before peforming a repair or reinstallation of XP. Unfortunately I cannot copy and paste anything, including the files onto my hard drive. I can highlight files and copy them, but when I right click and select paste, it is unavailable (faded grey). Also, the hard drive does not come up as an option when I right click and select Send To. How can I solve this?

Thanks a lot.