On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 00:00:02 +0000, karen lewellen wrote:
> hi folks,
> i ran scandisk today at the behest of the person who installed the
> harddrive. it says the drive has some areas with physical damage so,
> i'm going to learn backup the problem is, once i did configure it,
> it claims i need 98 disks to back up my entire drive.
> clearly i do not need to backup the programs for which i have the source
> discs, so how can i do this , be complete, but not have to do a directory
> at a time?
> ideas,
> karen
Hello Karen:
I would suggest you install a 250 MB ZIP drive on your system, or install
another hard drive having a capacity of at least 144 MB. Let us call this
extra drive D. Make sure that the extra drive is properly formatted and
wiped clean.
Before proceeding any further, study the documentation for the
xcopy command for your version of DOS.
Then:
C:\WHATEVER>cd\ [Make sure that you are in the root directory of C]
C:\>xcopy *.* d: /s /h
Using Caldera DRDOS, the above command will copy everything from drive C
to drive D, including files with system and hidden attributes, and all the
subdirectories will be created on D, and every file on C will be copied to
its corresponding directory on D. If you are using a different version of
DOS, then the command line switch options might be somewhat different for
getting the same desired result.
To help you to gain confidence in using the xcopy command, I would suggest
you practice with it first by xcopying some stuff to a floppy disk, to
include a few subdirectories having files with hidden and system attributes.
Once you discover how xcopy works, and what it does, then perform the major
xcopying operation described above.
Sam Heywood
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