Re: [PLUG] Copy Window harddrive using a Linux boot floppy?

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

I had used xcopy to transfer/upgrade pre-Win9x PC's to Win9x, so long 
file names weren't an issue.  I believe newer versions of xcopy or 
xcopy32 will handle long file names.  Yeah, I did do a Win95 to Win98 
transfer/upgrade using xcopy or xcopy32.  The command is something like 
"xcopy c: d: /s /e /v".

The file names might not seem to be correct when viewed in DOS, but they 
should work in Windows.  Very long paths might pose a problem.  Also, an 
active swap file will not copy and it will cause the command to fail.

Kevin Brosius wrote:

> Do newer versions of xcopy handle long filenames?  I had trouble in the
> past because DOS 6 and Win95 (iirc) xcopy do not handle the long
> filename info.  That will leave your new partition copies mangled for
> Windows use. 
>
> I ended up using xcopy (or maybe Norton Commander, same thing) along
> with a third party utility that would backup long filenames and then
> restore them after a copy operation.  It was a freeware/shareware
> utility, although I don't have the name in front of me.
>  

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