I have a 120 GB Seagate drive now and have a 120 Gb Maxtor drive that may have a couple of bad sectors I want to hook it up and go through the procedures of checking it out by formatting it through Maxtor's procedures to try and repair it and make a back up copy of my first drive? Is that possible or would it be better to just use it as a back up for an Image of the 1st drive using that Acronis Software? I also have 2 xp disks one came with the computer and one I bought a retail copy for a computer I had before I bought this one. I just would like to utilize this other drive depending on the answers I get I will also ask whats the procedure for doing it?

Not much sense in wasting a retail WinXP key on a backup solution. If you are not using the retail version you could sell it or install it on a second partition. WinXP will be dicontinued in the near future, you may want to hold on to the CD. As far as cloning a drive I don't personally recommend that. IF after running a drive fitness tool on the drive with bad sectors it checks out OK I would recommend storing a image of your boot drive there. You could create folders to store the image in and periodically update by creating a newer image. Always keeping two images on hand, if space allows. Newer versions of Ghost allow incremental backup, whick only writes the changes.

If you clone a suspect drive you have a suspect install. Consider ntback of important data and clean install of xp. You can use your current key under most instances. See your eula to be sure. I agree I wouldn't use the second copy unless it is for less than 30 days and you dont' activate it. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

Been busy with other stuff on this computer but I put the drive in and going to use it as a back up, but there is no Power cord for it,I am not talking about the big ribbon I am talking about the plug that fits along side the ribbon cable?

You can buy splitters for that. It will make two from one. Any computer store should be able to help you. The connectors are called Molex connectors.

Thanks for letting me know what these are called I would had a hard time explaining it.