It depends what you are copying them to. If you are copying them to another hard drive, it will have a different drive letter. it is the same with USB drives.
You save data by copying it from memory to your hard drive. You back it up by copying it from your hard drive to a CD (or other removable medium).
Try copying it onto a hard drive and then you have it
Ripping.
Your old game saves will be on your old hard drive/ memory unit. If they are on a memory unit then it is a simple issue of plugging the memory unit into the new xbox and copying the old save to the new hard drive. If you have an old hard drive you can plug the old hard drive into the new xbox and play from there. If you want to transfer the saved games from the old hard drive to the new hard drive you need a hard drive transfer cable and follow the instruction to transfer the data from the old hard drive to the new one.
Copying a DVD to a hard drive is not complicated. Just insert the disc in the DVD drive, open windows explorer and either do copy and paste or the drag and drop method.
install to hard drive still requires a disk. the point of installing it is that your xbox will be quiet when your playing the game on it. it also makes the game load faster.
A backup tape works by copying information from a computer and storing it. If something happens to a computer or a hard drive, a backup tape still has the information that was also stored on the hard drive of a computer.
select your game libary from the xbox 360 dashboard and choose install to hard drive
No, however you can buy the game from xbox live marketplace and the game will be on your hard drive
If you are talking about copying a CD into your hard drive, then please Ctrl+A (select all option), please Ctrl+C (copy) and press Ctrl+V (paste) to an appropriate location onto your hard drive.
If you own the computer then you could copy it to your hard drive(normally drive C:) or if you dont own the computer you could save it to your acct on the computer.