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copy drive info to external drive
I've had recent problems with my secong hard drive. I'm wanting to reformat
the drive but want to copy the contents over to an external HD. I can only boot into safemode so I'm wondering if through a command prompt I can copy everything from my second drive over to the external drive through a dos command? My second drive is assigned drive letter d:. Thanks |
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copy drive info to external drive
"Mathers" wrote in message
... I've had recent problems with my secong hard drive. I'm wanting to reformat the drive but want to copy the contents over to an external HD. I can only boot into safemode so I'm wondering if through a command prompt I can copy everything from my second drive over to the external drive through a dos command? My second drive is assigned drive letter d:. Thanks It would be simpler to use the Windows utility distributed free from www.xxcopy.com It runs in DOS but as 16-bit, thus preserving long filenames, and has many useful parameters e.g. /clone. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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copy drive info to external drive
"Don Phillipson" wrote:
"Mathers" wrote in message ... I've had recent problems with my secong hard drive. I'm wanting to reformat the drive but want to copy the contents over to an external HD. I can only boot into safemode so I'm wondering if through a command prompt I can copy everything from my second drive over to the external drive through a dos command? My second drive is assigned drive letter d:. Thanks It would be simpler to use the Windows utility distributed free from www.xxcopy.com It runs in DOS but as 16-bit, thus preserving long filenames, and has many useful parameters e.g. /clone. Wait a minute. XXCOPY comes with a 16-bit version, but according to the web page, that wouldn't preserve LFNs. You'll want to boot into safe mode and use the 32-bit version. Or check out the built-in xcopy command (open a DOS box and type "xcopy /?" for details.) -- Tim Slattery MS MVP(DTS) |
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If the external drive and the internal drive are both accessible in Safe Mode, and
assuming the drive you are copying is a data drive rather than containing the operating system, why not just open Windows Explorer in Safe Mode, and drag'n'drop the files and folders? To be sure you don't accidentally create shortcuts when dragging, instead of copying, right-click/drag the files and select Copy on the menu that appears when you drop the files. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Mathers" wrote in message ... I've had recent problems with my secong hard drive. I'm wanting to reformat the drive but want to copy the contents over to an external HD. I can only boot into safemode so I'm wondering if through a command prompt I can copy everything from my second drive over to the external drive through a dos command? My second drive is assigned drive letter d:. Thanks |
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I'll give it a shot. Thanks
"Don Phillipson" wrote: "Mathers" wrote in message ... I've had recent problems with my secong hard drive. I'm wanting to reformat the drive but want to copy the contents over to an external HD. I can only boot into safemode so I'm wondering if through a command prompt I can copy everything from my second drive over to the external drive through a dos command? My second drive is assigned drive letter d:. Thanks It would be simpler to use the Windows utility distributed free from www.xxcopy.com It runs in DOS but as 16-bit, thus preserving long filenames, and has many useful parameters e.g. /clone. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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All that shows on the internal HD through windows is command.com so I can't
drag and drop. I just want to copy all of the drives contents over. If I copy command.com over to the external drive, will I be recreating the same problem I hove now. If I understand what has happend to my internal drive is that when putting command.com on this secong drive, it creted a partition of just the boot info and that's all that windows sees. It does not see all the other 38Gb of data on the drive. So do I need to make sure I don't copy over command.com? "glee" wrote: If the external drive and the internal drive are both accessible in Safe Mode, and assuming the drive you are copying is a data drive rather than containing the operating system, why not just open Windows Explorer in Safe Mode, and drag'n'drop the files and folders? To be sure you don't accidentally create shortcuts when dragging, instead of copying, right-click/drag the files and select Copy on the menu that appears when you drop the files. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Mathers" wrote in message ... I've had recent problems with my secong hard drive. I'm wanting to reformat the drive but want to copy the contents over to an external HD. I can only boot into safemode so I'm wondering if through a command prompt I can copy everything from my second drive over to the external drive through a dos command? My second drive is assigned drive letter d:. Thanks |
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"glee" wrote in message
... If the external drive and the internal drive are both accessible in Safe Mode, and assuming the drive you are copying is a data drive rather than containing the operating system, why not just open Windows Explorer in Safe Mode, and drag'n'drop the files and folders? 1. The main reason not to use Windows copy routines is that Windows own protection system may not let us copy certain system files. XXCOPY bypasses these restrictions. 2. If we plan to copy this way, for most mouse users, the keyboard is safer than the mouse (fewer chances for error) i.e. -- Select all -- Copy to -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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"Mathers" wrote in message
... All that shows on the internal HD through windows is command.com so I can't drag and drop. I just want to copy all of the drives contents over. If I copy command.com over to the external drive, will I be recreating the same problem I hove now. If I understand what has happend to my internal drive is that when putting command.com on this secong drive, it creted a partition of just the boot info and that's all that windows sees. It does not see all the other 38Gb of data on the drive. So do I need to make sure I don't copy over command.com? Your first post said the problem is your second HDD, call it D: You need COMMAND.COM only on your boot HDD in C: So you can safely delete duplicates of this file from every non-boot drive. Duplicate sytem files are not likely to cause the problem (which you did not describe.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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I've tried deleting it by command in dos: "d:\ del command.com". It tells me
that I don't have access. "Don Phillipson" wrote: "Mathers" wrote in message ... All that shows on the internal HD through windows is command.com so I can't drag and drop. I just want to copy all of the drives contents over. If I copy command.com over to the external drive, will I be recreating the same problem I hove now. If I understand what has happend to my internal drive is that when putting command.com on this secong drive, it creted a partition of just the boot info and that's all that windows sees. It does not see all the other 38Gb of data on the drive. So do I need to make sure I don't copy over command.com? Your first post said the problem is your second HDD, call it D: You need COMMAND.COM only on your boot HDD in C: So you can safely delete duplicates of this file from every non-boot drive. Duplicate sytem files are not likely to cause the problem (which you did not describe.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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I've installed xxcopy but don't know how to answer through the first question
it asks. Can you tell me how these questions need to be answered so it executes what I want to have done. Copy everything off the D: drive over to an external drive. "Don Phillipson" wrote: "glee" wrote in message ... If the external drive and the internal drive are both accessible in Safe Mode, and assuming the drive you are copying is a data drive rather than containing the operating system, why not just open Windows Explorer in Safe Mode, and drag'n'drop the files and folders? 1. The main reason not to use Windows copy routines is that Windows own protection system may not let us copy certain system files. XXCOPY bypasses these restrictions. 2. If we plan to copy this way, for most mouse users, the keyboard is safer than the mouse (fewer chances for error) i.e. -- Select all -- Copy to -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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