Quote Originally Posted by hal8000
On your kde desktop you will have one (or more icons) representing your hard drive partition(s). These will be called hda1 or sda1 depending on whether the drive is IDE or SATA. A single left click will mount the drive and you'll be able to view its contents.

Plug in an external USB drive, watch for new icon and you can drag and srop contents across.
careful hal, i've encountered computers that just wont show the HD in neither 5.3.1 or 5.1. Repeated attempts sometimes help but the most consistent mounter of storage i have used is Puppy Linux.