please help me it is an emergency

[440-rt]

I have a failing drive and need to copy it using x copy I think it is finding the failing drive as drive F:

I want to copy it to a new folder on my C: drive but need to make the folder first to put the drive in.

Can someone please help me make a new folder and copy the failing drive to to the C: drive new folder.

thanks for the help

[DaveLembke]

At Windows start run type cmd

At command shell type cd\.

At C:\> type md foldername    ((( foldername being say driveC )))

next enter at the C:\>

xcopy f:\*.* c:\foldername\*.* /s/d/y     ((( replacing foldername with say driveC if you used that name )))

if the drive is healthy enough you will get all your data. If there are bad sectors your system may copy data until it hits the bad sector and fails if this is the case you can try to run scandisk on the F:\ drive to try to patch the bad sectors and then try the process above again.

Depending on how much data you have this can take a while, andbe sure drive C:\ had adequate space to take all of F:\ or you will run out of HD space on the C:\ drive

[440-rt]

I did it but it copied 153 files that I didn't recognize and said not enough disk space.  The drive I am trying to copy is 80 GB to a C: drive of 250 GB free. I am in the vista dos prompt

is there something else I can do since it appears dos can see the drive but windows can't? I ran spinrite and it can see the info too. I just need to get the files off then i can trash the drive.

[ALAN_BR]

I recommend Teracopy from http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

Very real benefits for you include :-

* Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and
  in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
 
* Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix
  the problem and recopy only problem files.


I am happy with the Free portable version
There is a Pro version also, but I only spend money when the free version is inadequate.

Regards
Alan

[gpl]

Not sure if this is appropriate, but if you try to copy a file >4Gb to a FAT formatted drive, you get just that error message (not enough space)

If your C: drive is fat formatted and your F: drive is ntfs, then that is likely to be the problem

Graham

[440-rt]

is there a way around it?

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[BC_Programmer]

Not sure if this is appropriate, but if you try to copy a file >4Gb to a FAT formatted drive, you get just that error message (not enough space)

If your C: drive is fat formatted and your F: drive is ntfs, then that is likely to be the problem

Graham

if he's running Vista from a 250GB C: drive, I doubt it's FAT

I recommend Teracopy from http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

Very real benefits for you include :-

* Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and
  in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
 
* Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix
  the problem and recopy only problem files.


I am happy with the Free portable version
There is a Pro version also, but I only spend money when the free version is inadequate.

Regards
Alan

XCOPY can do the very same thing. /C can be used to continue copying if an error occurs.

Also, since there is the option to only copy files that already exist, as well as a way to output files that would be copied, one can redirect the output from that display of possible files with the switch to only show those that already exist in the destination, and, on a subsequent use that list of files that do exist in the destination as the /EXCLUDE: parameter.


It takes a little thought but the same functionality that "teracopy" offers is reproducable via XCOPY, thanks to it's large number of options.

[ALAN_BR]

I agree xcopy can do this sort of thing

I like the fact that if Teracopy has a problem getting a good copy, it will automatically make several repeated attempts before moving on, with no manual intervention

Additionally it checksums each source file and each destination copy, and compares the results, and gives a nice summary of the failures.

Regards
Alan