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.

Help on the XCOPY command can be obtained by issuing

        XCOPY /?        (also from a Windows DOS session)

HTH
Gunnar



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