This may be of some help. Try this Site [http://www.nos.org/htm/os1.htm]. This
is what I found.
5.12 COPYING FILES
To copy a file, DOS provides `COPY' command. When you use `copy' command,
you must use the following two parameters; the location and the name of the
file you want to copy, or the source; and the location and the file name
to which you want to copy the file or the target (destination). You
separate the source and the destination or target with a space. The syntax of
the `COPY' command is
COPY {source} {destination} or,
COPY [drive:] [path] [filename] [drive:] [path] [filename]
i.e. the first set of drive, path and filename refers to the source
file, and the second set of drive, path and filename
refers to the destination file.
(a) Copying Single File
To copy the DEBUG.EXE file from the DOS directory to the NOS
directory
1. Return to the root directory by typing the following command prompt: CD\
2. Change to the DOS directory by typing the following commands at the DOS
prompt: CD DOS
3. To copy the file DEBUG.EXE file from the DOS directory to the
NOS, directory type the following at the command prompt:
Copy c:\dos\debug.exe c:\nos and the following message appears: 1 file (s)
copied
Examples:
# 1. A:\> copy a:\letter\office.doc \letter\office.bak
makes a copy of the office.doc file in the current or working directory
with a new name office.bak
# 2. A:\> copy office.doc a:\letters\nos.mem
copy the file office.doc from the root directory to the sub-directory LETTER
under root directory with a new name nos.mem.
If the target drive is not specified, the copied file will reside in the disk
mounted on the active drive.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/6/2006 4:36:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
is there such a thing as a system copy from dos, if there is I don't
know how to do it..All suggestions really appreciated..--Phyllis
Hi Phyllis:
Hope I'm not just being too simple here, but you did not explain
completely the type of failure. If it is not a mechanical breakdown,
sometimes the drive can be connected as a slave or placed into
an external USB Hard drive case and a lot of stuff in particular data
will still be readable.
Depends too how you save your data. Applications will not work
but stuff saved within an application can still be found and copied
out. Data that is saved within a folder such as my documents may
still be readable and copied out. Data copied out this way is
strictly Data and the PC that is used to read this stuff needs to have
a program installed that is capable of reading it, usually the program
that crated the data.
What kind of failure did you have. Are you capable of rebooting the
drive from the OS application CD? If so, you can maybe do a "repair"
or as Microsoft call it " an "In Place re-installation". This AVOIDS a
reformat and leaves all the settings, drivers and data in place.
As I said, I do not know the extent of your damage so the above may
not help.
Emile
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