DOS hangs on longfilename

[Bob T]

W2K has lost the ability to see one of my logical drives.

DOS (not under windows) can see the drive, read and write
to it, even though W2K says it is no longer formated.

I am trying to use the command line: XCOPY, to move the
contents to another drive, but it stops when it runs into
a longfilename. Which is to be expected.

Is there any workaround for this?

Thank you

 

[Mark V]

Bob T wrote in

W2K has lost the ability to see one of my logical drives.

DOS (not under windows) can see the drive, read and write
to it, even though W2K says it is no longer formated.

I am trying to use the command line: XCOPY, to move the
contents to another drive, but it stops when it runs into
a longfilename. Which is to be expected.

Does xcopy32 work?
There are W9x utilities to store the long filenames in a file that can
be used later to restore them.... Search "LFN" possibly. All these
were for W9x and I've no idea if they can work for you. All from
memory so YMMV.

There may be other methods to fix W2K instead...