[Ham-Computers] RE: Copy HD?

[Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)]

A better solution is to use a drive/partition "cloning" program such as GHOST or Drive Image.  These will copy everything plus the boot sector so you can actually boot from the backup.  GHOST and Drive Image are commercial apps, but there is an open source drive cloning app out there - I think Jeff can provide a link.


But, if you're pressed for time and need to use what's at hand, you can try:

xcopy c:\ d:\ /h /e /r /k
 

This needs to be done from an MS-DOS prompt in Windows as several of these switches are only available in the 32-bit version of XCOPY (available while the GUI is running).


A couple of caveats:

* Open files might not copy as they may be locked - this includes system files currently in use.

* The copy will stop when it encounters any errors.  To prevent this, add a "/C" - but then, you won't know if an error occurs.


For reference, the switches are:

/h - copy hidden files/folders
/e - copy all sub-dirs including empty ones
/r - overwrite read-only files on the destination
/k - keep the file attributes


73,

  - Aaron, NN6O


-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 6:42 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Copy HD?

I am having a couple of glitches in my OS that don't seem to be going away.  In the past, I have dared over-write the OS without problem, but as an added measure, I'd like to copy C:\*.* to D:\.  Dragging dropping from Windows Explorere, only creates a shortcut to C:\, attemping to copy everything from a DOS prompt i.e. copy c:\*.* d:\ only copies twenlve files form the root directory.  Using the DISKCOPY command from the DOS prompt, tells me the drive is invalid (go figure).

How can I copy C:\ to D:\ in Windows 98SE?

Kurt