Well - a week and a half later. I downloaded xxcopy, booted from D drive (partition), installed it on D drive, and ran it from D. The log at the end had 138 files copy failed, after copying 91,633 out of 91,771 files examined. Any idea why the 138 failed?
Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 7:07 AM Subject: Re: HARD:New drive set up > At 01:48 AM 1/27/2006, Al Christie typed: > >My question is, can I use the Xcopy E: F:\E_stuff > >/r/i/c/h/k/e/y to make a copy of E. > > OBTW there is a better xcopy out there in cyberland called xxcopy > <http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm> which keeps short filenames > straight which xcopy may not do such in a case where one might have > many files or folders that start out with the same first part of the > name. I have 14 folders that start with Microsoft ..... & in certain > situations the short filenames can get fubarred but xxcopy prevents > short filenames from becoming a problem. I even include xxcopy in all > my XpPe compilations. FWIW it's freeware & use all the same switches > as xcopy & then some which makes it great for other tasks as well > especially in script/batch files. -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
