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Old 26th March 2009 , 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Dave Boulden View Post
Open a DOS command window and type:
XCOPY D: E: /E /C /Q /H /R /K /Y
assuming D: is the source drive and E: in the destination drive. Explanation of the command line switches is here:
Unfortunately this will likely screw things up if you have long file names in any files of folders. This is because xcopy will only be able to produce the 8.3 character equivalent of those names.

To clone a Windows XP disc including all long file names I use xxcopy;
http://www.xxcopy.com
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