Cmnd Line Network commands

Namsnik · 22 Aug 2009 at 21:02

Trying to access a laptop hard drive from another pc on my home network. (Laptop will only access the command prompt so I need to re-install vista. )
My idea is to enter whatever command lines I need to make the laptop drive visible to computers on my home network. This will make it easy to browse folders and identify files to backup before I re-install windows.
Is this possible? How?

Namsnik · 22 Aug 2009 at 21:57

I can access the command prompt via system recovery. I cannot access the GUI, even in safe mode.

Net Share datashare=c:\users\
returns the service is invalid

Namsnik · 22 Aug 2009 at 22:11

netstat -r has only 1 item in the interface list "Software Loopback Interface 1"

My other laptop has a number of entries including my Broadcom controller... Do I need to switch on the network controller in some way
? Could it be that in the recovery environment I don't have networking?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654 doesn't mention networking

Net use returns: The network is not present or not started

Namsnik · 22 Aug 2009 at 22:20

Edit: better of using a USB HDD or flash drive.

Thanks, I'll stop wasting time then.

Namsnik · 22 Aug 2009 at 23:42

Great - thanks -xcopy is available and it can see my USB drive so I can copy everything then delete what I don't need.

Namsnik · 23 Aug 2009 at 00:10

Ok, I have copied everything to a folder on my USB drive. I can see it is there from the dos prompt. But in Windows I cannot see the folder I created with MD (DOS Make Directory command) or any of the files in it.
I guess I needed to load some specific driver for my Maxtor basics USB drive.
Not sure how to best resolve. Maybe I will just xcopy it across to a hard drive... Any advice welcome but I am packing up for the night.

Issues Resolved: My inability to see the folder I had created was due to permissions - when I logged in as administrator I could see the folder. I had used the /k switch in xcopy.