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Answer» I just bought a Samsung Ultrabook with Windows 7 Home Premium. I use Dos batch files to backup my data but these files do not seem to work. I went into the Dos command PROMPT and tried to use the xcopy command, but I get a reply: xcopy is not a recognized internal or external command... The same goes with robocopy, though both of them should be available in Windows 7. The copy command works, but I need a command that would allow me to copy also subdirectories (switch D) and leave unchanged files alone (switch S). Salmon Trout: surely the error would be different if it was a permissions issue. A good point; the OP said he "just bought" the ultrabook; if it is brand new you would expect the PATH system variable to be still set to the default and therefore find xcopy and robocopy. Maybe Fabricious should type PATH at a prompt and tell us what he or she gets? If a new variable, carelessly called %path% is in existence, that will screw things up. Or a rogue program installer could have mangled it. Fabricious are you sure that isn't Win7 Starter ?/ ? ? Hi Fabricius! I am a newbie at this and do not know MUCH. But I would like to try and help. Maybe you get this strange comment "xcopy is not a recognized internal or external command" because you haven't used it correctly (I imagine and HOPE MS-DOS is properly emulated even in Windows 7) I really don't know (runs XP) but I think you should be able to, in the command prompt, run: xcopy c: e: /d /s if you want to copy all new files (with respect to the residing files in the destination drive, here called e:) from c: to the destination drive, e: Using the /d-switch will thus enable copying of new files only and Using the /s-switch will enable copying of all subdirectories. Actually I think I will use this command the next time I want to back-up my music. Because I do not want to wait another two hours for all my 5GB music to be copied and Windows actually sucks at this kind of synchronization. MS-DOS rules! Best regards, RogerQuote from: patio on November 04, 2012, 09:39:41 AM Fabricious are you sure that isn't Win7 Starter ?/ ? ? +1, I'm not 100% sure but it would MAKE sense that Win7 Starter doesn't have Xcopy or RoboCopy installed, and netbooks almost always come with the Starter Edition.Hi! I would like to refrase my command to: xcopy c:\path_S e:\folder_D /d /s where path_S is the path to your folder which you want to copy folder_D is the folder you want to create and/or copy to (I think you will be prompted if the folder does not excist) /d is the switch that makes all the files that are newer than the files in the destination folder (folder_D) being copied /s is the switch that makes all the subdirectories in the source folder (path_S) being copied The above destiction is neccesary due to the fact that xcopy cannot copy itself (yields a so called sharing violation). Good luck! Best regards, Roger PS If you want to copy to a simple USB-stick, destination drive might differ from e: Personally I ignored your post since it doesn't even come CLOSE to addressing the Original Poster's problem. |
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