Hard drive backup...with a twist

[KayGee]

My laptop (running Vista x64) suffered a fairly violent fall today and stalls after the BIOS POST with a black screen of death. Startup Repair says that the OS cannot be fixed automatically due to a corrupt registry. So is there any program that can copy the entire hard disk to an external USB one from where I can then pick what I need and delete the rest. From what I understand, Clonezilla can create an image, but the files within that image can't be selectively picked and copied. Thanks in advance.

 

[lxskllr]

I'd boot to a Linux CD, and copy the files that way(assuming the hd still works).

 

[KayGee]

Thanks lxskllr. Fortunately, the hard drive still works. Using Startup Repair, I was able to get to the command prompt and transfer a few files to a USB drive, but it is really tedious.

Is there a DOS command that can copy an entire directory along with all sub-directories and files?

 

[metalmania]

xcopy

 

[KayGee]

xcopy

Thank you!

 

[Gooberlx2]

or robocopy