Copying Using Dos?

[Paddy]

hi,

I was upgrading my computer from 98se to 2000, it was just
a upgrade not a clean install, but its when wrong when...
it does everthing ok untill its gets to the last part were
its doing the final tasks. It keeps doing them and
rebooting??? I know it has to reboot but when it restart
it just starts the tasks again. so my question is this is
their any way I can copy files from my C: drive to my
other D: drive using dos as I cant get the computer to
boot at all. (I just want to copy my documents from C: to
my D


And dont tell me to use xcopy I cant get it working..

ANy help would be great

Cheers
Paddy - ktf

 

[Dave]

Yeah, after booting with your Win98 Start up Disk use
Copy not xcopy

 

[Paddy]

Will this allow me to copy C:\My Documents to just my D:\
drive its about 5GB of data. what sort of command line
should I write?

Cheers
Paddy - Ktf

 

[Steve N.]

Yes, but copy will not copy any subdiretories beneath My Documents or
their contents, for that you need xcopy, and I don't understand why you
cannot use xcopy.

The commands for using copy:

cd \My Documents

copy *.* d:\

-Steve