Copy my computer ?

damnyanks

I want to format the computer. I've 100 gigs of data on the disk 30 of which is useful but buried within the comp.

Anyone know of a way to copy it all over to some other disks on the network or external drives ?

I'd rather not trawl through it looking for individual files.

Capt'n Midnight

you want a program that will figure out which 30GB of the 100 is important and copy just the 30 GB !!!

wow , everyone needs such a program


to copy all files from C to D - ignore errors, don't copy files already copied, mark the archive bit when copied

xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* /s /d /y /c /m

top copy all .JPG files form c to d
xcopy c:\*.JPG* d:\*.* /s /d /y /c /m

damnyanks

Nah not the 30gigs but I'd rather have the 100 so I can search in future

keen

You could buy some ghosting software and create an exact image of your current HD on an external drive. This will back up everything including OS and programs/settings etc, may not be the option for you but will save you searching for what you need backed up.

remus808

Don't go out and buy ghosting software! Have a look around for <warez>.. literally a hundred great boot apps, been using it for years.. i use Acronis TrueImage from it for the purpose youve mentioned, works perfect

irlrobins

karmabass banned for one week for warez

Zirconia

You could also try this (legimate) free ghost software: FOG - Free, Open-Source Ghost

I've never used it myself (I own copy of Norton Ghost) but it looks good.