I'm planning to buy a new hard drive as my present one may be failing.
However, my present one may also be ok, in which case I would want to
keep the old drive and use it to back up the data on the new drive.

Two questions:

How do I copy the data from the old drive to the new drive? Is there a
simple, one-step way of doing this so that I don't have to go through a
big job of backing all my stuff onto other media as insurance?

If I decide to have both drives installed (using the old drive as a
backup medium), how do I do that?

If this is relatively simple, I will look to buy an inexpensive hard
drive and do the job on my own. If it's complicated, I will more likely
buy the HD from Dell so that their tech support can walk me through it.

I have a Dell Dimension with Windows 98.

Thanks much.

Larry