hi sam
hmmm i suppose this would be a grand idea, if i had such a disk just sitting
about, but i do not.
then too, as i have been using oneform of dos or another since roughly 1988
i would not need to practice <grin>
in fact to be honest, that is how i got the data from my 750 mg, to this 2.5
gig laughter!
thanks, anyone have a real suggestion? and would norton backup do a better
job?
karen,
On 2000-03-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Cc: Karen Lewellen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>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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