DOS Recovery console copy command only 1 file at a time???

[Eric]

Hello everyone,
I'm in situation where my WinXP is corrupt and I cannot
boot to it. I have data in the drive that I want. I have a
2nd backup data drive that I can copy it to. I've tried to
use the WinXP recovery console to copy it to the 2nd drive
BUT it does not support wildcards or a directory copy?!?!

how ridiculous is that??? I don't feel like copying every
file that I want to back up, which is about several
thousand. What was microsoft thinking??? Anyways, I tried
looking for DOS level boot disks that support NTFS and
have a NORMAL copy command. I could not find one. I want
to backup my data, reformat my drive and get on with my
life. Please, if someone knows a quick solution, it would
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Eric

[Benny Mathew]

Hi Eric,
Search for XCopy in your system folder.
Type XCopy /? for help.

Benny

"Eric" > wrote in message
...
> Hello everyone,
> I'm in situation where my WinXP is corrupt and I cannot
> boot to it. I have data in the drive that I want. I have a
> 2nd backup data drive that I can copy it to. I've tried to
> use the WinXP recovery console to copy it to the 2nd drive
> BUT it does not support wildcards or a directory copy?!?!
>
> how ridiculous is that??? I don't feel like copying every
> file that I want to back up, which is about several
> thousand. What was microsoft thinking??? Anyways, I tried
> looking for DOS level boot disks that support NTFS and
> have a NORMAL copy command. I could not find one. I want
> to backup my data, reformat my drive and get on with my
> life. Please, if someone knows a quick solution, it would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> Eric

[Mark Dormer]

I would remove the first drive.
Install XP on the 2nd drive, then put the first drive back in as a slave and
copy the data off it.

Regards
Mark Dormer


"Eric" > wrote in message
...
> Hello everyone,
> I'm in situation where my WinXP is corrupt and I cannot
> boot to it. I have data in the drive that I want. I have a
> 2nd backup data drive that I can copy it to. I've tried to
> use the WinXP recovery console to copy it to the 2nd drive
> BUT it does not support wildcards or a directory copy?!?!
>
> how ridiculous is that??? I don't feel like copying every
> file that I want to back up, which is about several
> thousand. What was microsoft thinking??? Anyways, I tried
> looking for DOS level boot disks that support NTFS and
> have a NORMAL copy command. I could not find one. I want
> to backup my data, reformat my drive and get on with my
> life. Please, if someone knows a quick solution, it would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> Eric

[Tom Porterfield]

The ability to use wildcards is turned off in recovery console for
security reasons. You can turn it on, but the setting has to be made
before you need recovery console. For info on how to do that see:

HOW TO: Add More Power to Recovery Console By Using Group Policy in
Windows XP Professional
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310497

At this point the easiest way to get your data off the drive would likely
be to take the drive from the existing machine and add it as a slave to a
machine already running XP.

Some utilities that might help:

NTFSDOS
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/NTFSDOS.shtml
NTFSDOS Professional
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdospro.shtml

--
Tom Porterfield
Windows XP / Smart Display MVP
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tp.porterfield/support

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"Eric" > wrote in message
...
> Hello everyone,
> I'm in situation where my WinXP is corrupt and I cannot
> boot to it. I have data in the drive that I want. I have a
> 2nd backup data drive that I can copy it to. I've tried to
> use the WinXP recovery console to copy it to the 2nd drive
> BUT it does not support wildcards or a directory copy?!?!
>
> how ridiculous is that??? I don't feel like copying every
> file that I want to back up, which is about several
> thousand. What was microsoft thinking??? Anyways, I tried
> looking for DOS level boot disks that support NTFS and
> have a NORMAL copy command. I could not find one. I want
> to backup my data, reformat my drive and get on with my
> life. Please, if someone knows a quick solution, it would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> Eric

[Ron Martell]

"Eric" > wrote:

>Hello everyone,
> I'm in situation where my WinXP is corrupt and I cannot
>boot to it. I have data in the drive that I want. I have a
>2nd backup data drive that I can copy it to. I've tried to
>use the WinXP recovery console to copy it to the 2nd drive
>BUT it does not support wildcards or a directory copy?!?!
>
>how ridiculous is that??? I don't feel like copying every
>file that I want to back up, which is about several
>thousand. What was microsoft thinking??? Anyways, I tried
>looking for DOS level boot disks that support NTFS and
>have a NORMAL copy command. I could not find one. I want
>to backup my data, reformat my drive and get on with my
>life. Please, if someone knows a quick solution, it would
>be greatly appreciated.
>

Hi Eric.

Get ReadNTFS (free) from http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm and use it
from a Windows 98 Startup Boot Disk (or similar).

It will allow you to browse the drive and save entire folders (and all
of their subfolders) to your other hard drive PROVIDED it is FAT32 and
not NTFS.

I used it recently to recover files from an XP Notebook that had a
similar problem. In that case I ended up creating a large RAM drive
from the boot disk and copying the files I needed to it. Then I used
PKZIP to save the RAM drive contents to 3.5 inch diskettes. Worked
like a charm. I was able to get about 30 mb of documents and
accounting data files off the drive.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

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