Yes, I was afraid I would look a little dim-witted in my attempt to be succinct. I know what can be done in Windows Explorer - which is pretty quick and dirty.
What I was hoping for was a program that could go through lots of files, sort them by date and then give me the option to copy them to another partition for further sorting. What I don't want to do is sort in the master directory and then not be able to undo a sort I don't like.
Hope that makes some sense.