Subj : Re: XCOPY or COPY
To   : aria1946
From : CBFalconer
Date : Mon Feb 11 2002 07:30 pm

From: CBFalconer@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (CBFalconer)
Subject: Re: XCOPY or COPY

From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com>

aria1946@hotmail.com.spoo wrote:
>
> I want to copy an entire partition to another partition, overwriting
> anything that happens to be in the target partition.
>
> I created the copy on H: from E: (source drive) with a simple copy
> function. On subsequent copies I want to basically overwrite H: with
> the current contents of E:, preserving empty directories on E: in the
> process.
>
> Is there any particular advantage to using COPY or XCOPY?

There's a fundamental advantage to using xxcopy (not xcopy).  It preserves the
8.3 file names.
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