Possibly with another Hard drive or with a good amount of double sided dual Layer DVD's. Depending on the size of the hard drive.
basically you use a backup program.
backing up an entire hard drive is difficult...so much data to back up...
You can use your laptop to back uup your hard drive but your USB is not the thing getting backed up.
Back up hard drive
Back Up Your Hard Drive - 2009 was released on: USA: 28 March 2009 (internet)
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.
If you have alot of data, you can buy and esternal drive, or buy a second hard drive, and put it inside the machine and use it as a back up storage drive. You can buy a decent size hard drive online shipped for 60 dollars or less.
Put it on back up or get a new hard drive
cd-roms
You get another memory storage device, such as an external hard drive, and you copy everything on your hard drive onto the external hard drive, and keep it safe. That way, if your hard drive crashes, then you can take it out, and plug your external hard drive in, and work from that.
Backup software is not recommended since if your hard drive fails, your backup fails. It is best to get an external hard drive or to back up your computer in the cloud.
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With an external hard drive =D