Windows XP - copy files and skip unreadable files?

[DallasNYC]

Hi, Im trying to copy all of my old CD-Rom data over to my computer to backup on an external USB Hard Drive. The problem is that some of these CDs are pretty old and not all the files are readable. When I try to copy the directories, windows copies some files then stops and says it can't copy a certain file. The problem is then I have to figure out where the file is and try to copy file on either side of it.

Is there a simple way to just tell windows to skip over the unreadable files and continue copying the others? I'm not too concerned about losing some of the files because they are mostly images and/or most likely will never really be needed.

Thanks
Dallas

 

[Tsosczb]

Not too sure about Windows being goofy, but maybe you could do something like add the files to a zip file, and the program might just plow right through the corrupt ones. I use WinRar, but don't have a way to test this.

 

[imported_BikeDude]

Use xcopy from the command line. "XCOPY /DISKCOPYH source destination" will copy the lot. (Interestingly enough, /DICKHER will also work, except I don't think it copies the permissions as you need /O for that)

 

[DallasNYC]

Thanks bike dude, did some web searching on your suggestion and also found robocopy. Didn't know about either one. Also downloaded some GUIs for them.

Tsosczb, thanks for the input. But zipping wouldn't have worked wither because I would stil have to pull it off my CD-rom to add them to a zip file.

Dallas