Program to copy files in Windows XP?

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I'm copying a whole drive on to another drive.

Select all then copy and paste should be good enough, but :rolleyes: it's never that simple is it :mad:

Every now and then it says "Cannot copy file ^&£%^"%"%£%&^" and there's only an "OK" button. Press OK and it cancels the WHOLE transfer.

So what I need is something to copy everything on "E:\" to "C:\BackUp\", which doesn't go "Oh someone forgot to program an Ignore button so I'm going to cancel now, OK?" whenever there's an error. Basically, something that will copy everything it can, and ignore everything it can't.

Any advice on this, please?! :)

Thanks in advance
 
I think I may have found a solution - the powah of DOS!

But if you have any other solutions I'd still be interested to hear them :) I'll update if DOS can get past the file name errors that Explorer can't.

/plays waiting game
 
For a powerful command line tool to copy files over, check out Robocopy.

However, the problem is some files are locked/in-use. Most applications, whether command line or otherwise, won't be able to get around that. However, Windows has a feature/service called "volume shadow copies" that can help you get arounnd even those. A command that uses volume shadow copies is "Hobocopy" (which clearly is a rip-off of Robocopy, but solving the locked files issue.)
 
xcopy /E /H /Y E:\* C:\backup\

you're better off using an imaging program if you want a full 'backup' mind
 
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bledd. said:
xcopy /E /H /Y E:\* C:\backup\

you're better off using an imaging program if you want a full 'backup' mind
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I'll try that xcopy line...

I'm trying to copy files over so that the lowest (alphabetically) will get copied over first....

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17802640&highlight=sproggy

My headunit in my car basically doesn't order the files, it just seems to see the files in the order they were copied over, meaning some albums play out of order...

Next time I get the drive in, I'll try copying over the files again. :)

EDIT: If copying files from the command line slower? I've found transfer rates to be slower myself, but I was using copy, and not xcopy.
 
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i use robocopy myself, from the given info seems like xcopy is enough

there's a robocopy gui that ms have released too, googling it will show you the ms link to it
 
Awesome, I'll check out xcopy (once I get the drive in), then I might give robocopy a bash also... I don't mind the command line, but a GUI is almost always nicer. :)
 
it's the type of gui, that'd help you learn the commandline version, pretty decent, and can export a bat file for you from the program

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/11/UtilitySpotlight/

411x375.aspx
 
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