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[Guest]

How can I copy the files and folders in partition C to partition F. The only
bootable O.S. I have now is Wxp on partition C. I thought of using the MS-DOS
startup disk but MS-dos does not read NTFS partitions. Any suggestions?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

How can I copy the files and folders in partition C to partition F.
The only bootable O.S. I have now is Wxp on partition C. I thought of
using the MS-DOS startup disk but MS-dos does not read NTFS
partitions. Any suggestions?

You copy files and folders from one partion to another just as you from one
folder to another. There are lots of ways to do this. Here's one: in My
computer, select the files and folders you want to copy and press CTRL-C.
Then change to Drive F: (or whatever folder in drive F you want these in)
and press CTRL-V.

 

[Bob I]

Select files in "C", drag and drop on "F"

 

[Guest]

But some of the files on partition c are "in use" so they can not be copied!
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[Bob I]

Why do you want to copy files that are open?!?!? Close the program that
has the file open.

 

[Guest]

Wxp is on partition C. If one boots Wxp you will find that you can not copy
all of Wxp to another partition because part of it is "in use"!
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[Ken Blake, MVP]

Wxp is on partition C. If one boots Wxp you will find that you can
not copy all of Wxp to another partition because part of it is "in
use"!

You want to copy the entire C: partition? Use a third-party program like
Acronis True Image.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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[Bob I]

Perhaps you should stop trying to do things the most difficult way
possible.