EARGH !!!! Is there a way to copy any and all files ( except the windows folder ) in winXP ?

[Dazed and Confused]

Okay, I'm get flustered here. Does anyone know a way to move any and all folders/files without that damned "Cannot move/copy" file error ? I just want to copy every file albeit my windows folder from my old HDD onto my new just so UI can get it done and over weith then I can nit pick thru them all in a week or so. I need to get the stuff off this HDD so I can format it and give it to my uncle but before I can do that I wanna make sure everything I need/might need is off of it and backed up.

Any help at all will be greatly appreciated.

 

[TheStu]

Why not just not select that folder when copying?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

If I was willing to not select even a single folder while copying then I wouldn't have a problem now would I? And it's about 20+ folders that won't budge and a lot of them have stuff I'm editing.

I've already tried Unlocker 1.85 and still no luck :/ Anyone know of any other programs that might actually work ?

 

[xcript]

"xcopy" may do what you want. Eg: xcopy /c/h/e/k/r c: d:\backup (from a command prompt).

/c tells it to ignore errors.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

In that case can anyone tell me exactly what command I need to copy files using xcopy from " G:/Documents and settings " to " F:/backup " ? I have tried reading the xcopy directions on microsofts site and I'm not having a single bit of luck 🙁 I have like 35 gigs of data in my documents folder and I'd rather not have to lose any of it 🙁

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Dazed and Confused
In that case can anyone tell me exactly what command I need to copy files using xcopy from " G:/Documents and settings " to " F:/backup " ? I have tried reading the xcopy directions on microsofts site and I'm not having a single bit of luck 🙁 I have like 35 gigs of data in my documents folder and I'd rather not have to lose any of it 🙁

xcopy /c/h/e/k/r G:\documents/ and/ settings f:\backup


The '/' in Documents and Settings may not be necessary... I am used to Terminal commands in OS X, never really dealt with the command line much in Windows.

basically what the command appears to be is:

xcopy /c/h/e/k/r n:\source n1:\destination

Where n:\source is the path of the source, n1:\destination is the path of the destination.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

K, you were almost 100% correct.

This is what I had to type in a command box to get everything to work, first thing I did was rename "Documents and settings" to "documents" :

" xcopy(space)g:\documents(space)f:\backup(space)/c/h/e/k/r "

After I hit enter it went to work copying every file 😀 Yaaay for resolution 🙂

 

[TheStu]

Well, glad to know that it is copying now.

 

[xcript]

Glad you got it sorted out. A tip, though: if a path contains any spaces, all you need to do is enclose it in double-quotes. CMD will actually do this for you if you make use of its tab-completion (hit tab after typing the first few characters of a filename/directory). Another way to do it is to drag & drop the file/dir onto the CMD window (it'll paste in the full path - in quotes - for you).

 

[mchammer]

Make sure to use a MD5 hash program to check your copies.

 

[dealmaster00]

Usually if I am doing a quick backup of Docs and Settings, I just log onto another user and that unlocks everything.