dos command 5

[judgehopkins]

I am running Windows XP Home.

What is the DOS command (or other command in XP) for copying a disk in the A: drive to another disk (which will have to go in the A: drive also).

I used to do this all the time back in the pre-Windows days but have forgotten the command!

Thanks....

"If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's gonna stop them." - Yogi Berra

 

[bcastner]

Wow,

One nice thing about this forum is that the odd and curious aspects of the OS always have an audience.

The discussion above is not by any means atypical. I still have not nailed the issue of zero legnth file names from mistyped command line arguments under Start, Run to linney's satisfaction. But, I will.

Thank you blujacket, judehopkins and marcs41, and others for the discussion. I learned a great deal. Which is the point of joining a forum.

Bill

 

[bcastner]

And thanks to Matt (mattjurado) for bringing the issue up enough to make me curous.

Matt, a belated welcome to Tek-Tips. You are good stuff.
Bill

 

[billybobby]

Don't understand why you don't use the copy disk that comes up when you right click on the "A" drive! It works juust great.
Billybobby

 

[Marcs41]

billybobby, please READ the entire thread before posting this.
the copy between a 720 and 1.44 will NOT work.