Cloning a HDD in DOS?

[CircleFaust]

My mate in work has a HDD that only contains DOS. this has crashed and he needs to transfer all the data to a new HDD. i presume it hasn't crashed to the point where you cant access DOS comands, it must be one of the programs that won't boot up. i'm not 100% but he seems to want to clone the drive

anyone know how to clone a drive in dos. a list of DOS commands/functions and examples would be nice. is it as easy as copy c: to d:

also, how do yo urun dos from within windows

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[rpstewart]

You can clone an HDD with DOS on in the same way as a windows one with Ghost or TrueImage - that may be the easiest way if you're not comfortable with the DOS command interface.

Alternatively you can use the xcopy command to recursively copy the contents of the DOS drive onto a new one, the XP help has all the command line options if you're interested.

 

[randeesha]

wasn't also there a command in MS-DOS 3.5 and up called "backup" to back up a programme and then the "restore" command to restore it