Question

My harddisk crashed and only way of recovering the data is through command prompt.Actually there are a lot of directories on my hardisk and i would like to know can i copy dircctories content i.e.files and subsequent directories in main directory in one go or do i have to open each directory and then copy all its files.
Any switch are there please let me know

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Answer

You can recover and backup files from the MS-DOS prompt. However you're going to need to know about MS-DOS commands as well as how to navigate through MS-DOS. Regarding your question about copying directories. Depending upon the size of these directories may change how you copy the files.

One method of copying directories is using the MS-DOS Xcopy command. Additional information about the Xcopy command can be found on the below page.

http://www.computerhope.com/xcopyhlp.htm

If however the directory is several megabytes it will not fit on a floppy diskette. Therefore you would need to compress the files. Pkzip is a great compression utility that will allow you to compress directories and files and put them onto multiple floppy diskettes. A download for this utility can be found on the below link.

http://www.computerhope.com/download/recomend.htm