There has been much discussion on this list regarding
the use of XCOPY for copying an entire hard drive to
another and, without causing another debate, I must
say that as a PC professional I have seen the light.
XCOPY is NOT a good option. I would like to point you
to XXCOPY with is an enhanced, freeware version of
XCOPY that, behind the scene does a much better job
and ensure the integrity of the data on the drive.
Good luck. Here's the link:

http://www.datman.com/xxcopy/

--- Gunnar Bagge via wanadoo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> At 13:48 08-08-00 -0400, Rosanne wrote:
> >My main hard drive is, of course, "C".  I have a
> much smaller drive, "D".  I
> >want to put in a new fast drive in place of "D".
> Can I copy the whole "D"
> >drive onto "C", using dos commands?
>
>
>  From a Windows DOS session do the following
> command:
>
>         XCOPY SOURCE_DRIVE_PATH\*.*
> DESTINATION_DRIVE_PATH\*.* /R/I/C/H/K/E/Y
>
> In your case this would be:
>
>         XCOPY D:\*.* C:\*.* /R/I/C/H/K/E/Y
>
> This will copy everything, including system files
> and empty directories, and any existing files will
> be overwritten without asking. If you're planning on
> moving everything back later you should make a new
> directory - say old_d - on your c-drive and replace
> the C:\*.* with C:\old_d\*.* in the command above.
> This will keep everything together and you won't
> overwrite anything.


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