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DOS commands help

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caligulaa

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I can only boot in DOS and i want to copy files from my primary to my secondary harddisk but i don't know the commands.

Can anyone help me?
 
Copy <source drive😛ath/path/etc>(SPACE)<Destination drive😛ath/path/etc>

Ex: Copy C:\myfiles\stuff.txt D:\mynewfiles

You can use an asterisk (*) as a multi-character wildcard, or the question mark (?) as a single character wildcard.

Copy C:\myfiles\*.* D:\mynewfiles

I believe a slash-s (/s) will copy all subdirectories below the target source directory

Copy /s C:\*.* D:\ will copy the entire drive (except hidden and system files)

You can rename the file during the copy:

Copy C:\myfiles\stuff.txt D:\mynewfiles\oldstuff.txt

DOS doesn't know anything about NTFS, so if you want to copy to an NT/WIN2K/XP drive, you may be out of luck.


Good Luck

Scott
 
Thanks man you're saving me

I have to format to get windows working again but I can only use dos to backup my files.

Luckily i didn't convert my drives to NTFS when i upgraded
 
The problem is that since I switched Mobo/RAM/CPU win2k is going crazy.
I get the innacessible Boot device blue screen
I tried changing the stuff I know but it didn't help
And when I choose my secondary drive as a first boot device then it boots in msdos but it is stuck in there then
I guess it must be a restover from my win2k upgrade from win95

I find it a very odd problem because if I use my brothers hd it boots fine into windows and itsalls itself without problems
He has win2k too
 
Well, if the new motherboard has an additional IDE controller (like a Promise RAID), it doesn't get recognized by install unless you load the drivers. You can put the old drive on the main Primary IDE and it should come up OK. You may have to reboot a bunch as Windows removes the old MOBO drivers and discoovers and loads the new MOBO drivers. I've switched motherboards a couple times (Tyan/Via to I815 was the last one) with WIN98, ME, and WIN2K...other than the sh*tload of reboots, everything went fine, and they're still working fine.

Good Luck

Scott
 
Well no thats the problem the hd are on the primary ide connectors

The bios autodetects the hd's fine but when it comes to boot on the master it's a no way
 
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