I want to copy folders & files from CD to HD, maintaining the exact,
same date/time stamp. The COPY-command is useless in that respect.
Any freeware that does the trick?
B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson said:message: <[email protected]>
As in most 'copy cases', the free version of xxcopy should do the trick:
Look at http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy01.htm for syntax. You'll need the
switches /E /TCA /TCC /TCW. But maybe you want to use some other, too.
HTH.
BeAr
vince said:message: <mjvHb.480792$Dw6.1412543@attbi_s02>
Why do you need to the same date and time?
[...]As in most 'copy cases', the free version of xxcopy should do the trick:
Look at http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy01.htm for syntax. You'll need the
switches /E /TCA /TCC /TCW. But maybe you want to use some other, too.
At first glance Xxcopy is still creating a new date & time stamp for the
destination folders/directories. What I want is a 100% identical copy of
the source (CD) on the destination (HD-partition).
Maybe cloning/duplicating is what I am looking for.
B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson said:message: <[email protected]>[...]As in most 'copy cases', the free version of xxcopy should do the trick:
Look at http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy01.htm for syntax. You'll need the
switches /E /TCA /TCC /TCW. But maybe you want to use some other, too.
At first glance Xxcopy is still creating a new date & time stamp for the
destination folders/directories. What I want is a 100% identical copy of
the source (CD) on the destination (HD-partition).
Hm, xxcopy shouldn't use the actual date/time with the afore mentioned
switches. I tried it on W2k and it worked like intended.
Maybe cloning/duplicating is what I am looking for.
The /clone switch is just a shortcut for: /KS/H/E/R/Q/Y/BI/ZY/ZE/oD0.
None of these switches acts like you want. But maybe you should use /ZE
to ensure, you don't use some 'background' switch due to environment
settings...
It takes me too much time, playing around with my computer in this
respect. It's obvious: what I want is not possible, in fact there's no
demand for it. So I quit.
B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson said:message: <[email protected]>
Xxcopy didn't work??! What OS have you tried it on? Because everything
tested okay for me with W2k I maybe got your aims wrong. The switches
I told you *should* have worked:
/E Copies directories and subdirectories, including empty ones.
/TCA Copies the timestamp of Last Access fm src to dst.
/TCC Copies the timestamp of Create Time fm src to dst.
/TCW Copies the Last Write time fm src to dst (default).
/ZE Disables the use of all Environment Variables for XXCOPY.
Sorry, I couldn't help more...
BeAr
As far as I can see, Xxcopy fails on two points. In the first place
Xxcopy doesn't make an exact copy of the folders/directories -- names
not contents(!)
-- but creates new ones on the HD-partition with the
current date/time stamp.
Second, Xxcopy changes the Accessed part of the
date/time stamp -- files not folders(!) -- from "(unknown)" to the
current date/time stamp.
That means a 98% copy, not an identical one.
What I need is a sector-by-sector copier, cloner or duplicator like
Norton Ghost. However, Ghost, apart from the bootdisk misery, doesn't
clone from CD to HD-partition.