Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!julian!uwovax!16012_3045 From: 16012_3045@uwovax.uwo.ca (Paul Gomme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Hard disk copy Message-ID: <2047@uwovax.uwo.ca> Date: 9 Apr 89 12:47:10 GMT References: <880@impch.UUCP> Lines: 15 Organisation: Department of Economics, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada In article <880@impch.UUCP>, egon@impch.UUCP (Lukas Knobloch) writes: > Try do backing up my HD (71 Mb) with DiskCopy.com > it means 'Wrong drive letter > or drive is a hard disk' or so.... > Backing up with FASTBACK makes me really bored > (Diskchange Diskchange Diskchange) > A HD to HD copy would be really nice Try something like: xcopy c:\*.* d:\ /s /e The /s copies directories and lower level directories unless empty; the /e copies any subdirectories whether or not they are empty (must use with /s switch to get this to work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Gomme Bitnet: gomme@uwovax.bitnet ARPA: gomme@uwo.ca