copying from c: to another hard drive

[Gary]

I have been getting error messages lately that hard disk
failure is imminent. I have another hard disk already, I
just can't seem to copy all my files to it. I wrote a
batch file using xcopy, but there were so many sharing
violations, I gave up on that. I clicked and dragged the
drive icon, but that caused sharing violations, as files
were being used, and that caused it to bomb out. In the
DOS days, we could backup and restore, but I can't seem
to find that option now. What can I do?

 

[Darkman]

Hi Gary

If you have access to a disk utility program like Partition Magic you can
use the 2 Dos diskettes to copy one partition or drive to another one. This
program copies the drive exactly and works very well.
XP comes with Microsoft backup but you would have to install XP on the new
drive then navigate to the backup file you made and then do a restore.

Hope this helps
Grant