OK, What software are you using to back up your website, also, what web server software do you use? I am assuming that you host the website yourself, which may not be the case.
sorry i dont follow. i have the website here on my pc (i jsut upload to the server), all i want to do is to make a copy of it, the website itself works fine
Sorry, me getting confused. When you said you copied all the pages to an empty partition, but the files wouldn't copy, what happened? Did you get any error messages? Also the web pages, aren't hese just HTML (or similar) files?
Apologies I'm not really helping very much, but I'm intrigued.
If there is a link to a picture (or some other content) on one of your pages but the content is not on your drive (you know when you get the little red x on your page), this could cause the same problem.