Hi i was told by the salesman that i could copy the windows 7 opperating system on to my passport essentials external hard drive, is this possible thanx chris

Ok there are some free and paid programs that will do that. Paragon EaseUS and Macrium all have free programs that will do that. I use Acronis True Image paid. You burn a CD with these programs that is bootable and boot from that to restore. To be able to do incremental backups you need a paid versi…