Please help, I've got an emergency...

[Jugernot]

Please help me with a problem I have.

Today when I was install WIn98SE, it wiped out all of the partitions on one of my drive and I lost all of my backups. I have since recovered the most important partition back in a semi working form with findpart.exe. I can only access the partition in dos and not WIN2K. I need a bunch of the documents from the partition for a project tomorrow, so this URGENT!

How do I copy all of the files/directories from the partition to another on another drive? I haven't used dos in over 4 years, so I've totally forgotten all of the switches for the copy.exe command in dos.

What switches do I need input to copy all the files and directories from the partition?

btw: I have tried using Norton Ghost and Drive Copy 3 and neither work.

Thanks,
Joe

 

[Jugernot]

if someone can recommend a free dos utility that will do it, that would be fine too.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Maxtor's MaxBlast does it, not sure will it with the condition of your partition right now though

I believe the dos command:

xcopy

will work. Try the xcopy /? to see all switches, I believe xcopy /e copies all dirs, not sure though

 

[bo_bear]

I can't remember all the switches, but as it's been suggested, you can do xcopy /? to see all the switches. I also think that if you want to copy everything (including sub-directory and all the sub-sub-directories), you can use a period ".". *.* would do all the files, but not the files inside the directory. I think I have just used it about a month ago. But using one of the switches can also accomplish the same thing.

Good luck!

 

[Spiff]

xcopy c:\stuff e:\stuff /e /h /i

 

[Jugernot]

I have actually found a reason to like Win98! It read the partition no problem and I was able to copy the files (over 10gigs worth!) over the network my workstation.

I am one happy man!

I guess Win98 read it because it doesn't need as much stability/consistency as Win2k.

Thanks for all that responded, I REALLY appreciate your effort!

btw, I tried using Xcopy as you guys recommended, but it didn't seem to want to recognize the partition either.

Jugs

I really recommend the findpart.exe utility for any computer tech. It will tell you the parameters of any lost partition from a drive. Although it does automatically fix the partition, it will tell you the settings that should be used to recover it through another utility such as ptedit or Ranish Partition Manager. Here is the link:

http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm

I'm going to keep several copies of it around my lab, JUST IN CASE!