Recently, the system crashed, and I could only enter DOS to back up some files. I used the command `copy c:\asd d:\a`. Here, `asd` is a folder, but after reinstalling the system, I found that `d:\a` on the D drive is just an unregistered file, not a folder anymore. What should I do?
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The COPY command can only copy files, it seems it can't copy subdirectories. You should use XCOPY or XXCOPY... and so on.
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The reason is that there was no a folder in your original D drive, so the copy command merged all the files in the c:\asd directory into one a file.
The correct way to copy is like this:
md d:\a
copy c:\asd d:\a
Of course, you don't need to create the target directory first if you use xcopy with the /i parameter.
xcopy /i c:\asd d:\a
The correct way to copy is like this:
md d:\a
copy c:\asd d:\a
Of course, you don't need to create the target directory first if you use xcopy with the /i parameter.
xcopy /i c:\asd d:\a
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Oh, is that so? Then does that mean the data I backed up can't be recovered?
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It should be using
md d:\a
xcopy c:\asd /s d:\a
In this way, all non-empty subdirectories under the asd folder are all copied over
md d:\a
xcopy c:\asd /s d:\a
In this way, all non-empty subdirectories under the asd folder are all copied over
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Posted 2004-04-26 00:00 · 中国 重庆 电信
I think /i is better. No matter whether the directory exists or not, it always copies your files with subdirectories as a directory.
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Okay, I've also learned a trick
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