Hello... I originally posted this in the Windows 7 forum, but I think it's more of an MS DOS issue, and hopefully someone here can help...
I was running a freeware defrag program when the process halted (prob. due to loss of power/sleep mode) and my laptop no longer boots from the hard drive when powered on. Win7 startup repair does not restore the system. Using the Command Prompt I can still see my files, but there are no 'autoexec.bat', 'config.sys' or 'command.exe' files on the root (and I'm not 100% sure that Win 7 even uses them). I think I may have to reformat and reinstall to my factory original disks, which will reformat my hard drive and destroy months of data.
Before I do that, I want to try to save the "my documents" files to an external drive, then reload them after the rebuild. I intend to use the 'xcopy' function from the Command Prompt to copy the entire c:\ drive to the external drive, then when my machine is rebuilt, copy all of my documents back.
I plan on using the "xcopy c:\*.* /a /e /k" command from inside the root directory of the external drive.
Will this work, and does anyone have any other advice for me to try before I reformat my drive?
My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 505 - s6005, and I'm running Win 7 Home and Office 64bit.
Thank you for any help you can give...
Tom
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