copying hard drives

drive to an empty (but formatted) one. Tried it in a dos prompt using the 'copy' command, but it only does the first directory, none of the folders. What command do i need? or do i need to use something else??

 

in winblows explorer:
go to source drive
ctrl + a
ctrl + c
go to destination drive
ctrl + v

or has it got to be in dos?

 

Dosen't Xcopy copy the folders also?

 

Yea but you need certain switches to copy everything. i can't quite remember what they are as i did it on my work experiance in high school But i think its /s /e /r /c /h /k. the e could be an a tho i can't remember

Death

 

doesn't copy *.* do it as well? or is that just for files and not folders

 

xcopy *.* /s d:
assuming:
you are in the root c:\
where d: is your destination drive

Why not doing it in Windows?

 

I use the Maxtor drive copy. It works and i know my stuff got copyed correctly. Every time i try xcopy or some other dos command, it seems to miss some of the system files or somthing becuase my source drive will have a larger file size total than the new drive.