Losing data on external hard drive?

[missourigirl61]

I have a Seagate external drive and it keeps overheating. It has alot of everything on it, all my games, programs needed for computer. Can I buy another external drive and copy from old external drive or do I need to put all info on desktop then copy to new external drive?

 

[jaslion]

I have a Seagate external drive and it keeps overheating. It has alot of everything on it, all my games, programs needed for computer. Can I buy another external drive and copy from old external drive or do I need to put all info on desktop then copy to new external drive?

Copy from on to another is the right way to do it just do a copy and paste action as usual in windows. I do recommend you always keep 2+ backups of your data (learned that the hard way 12 years ago).