Subj : XCOPY or COPY
To   : aria1946
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Feb 13 2002 05:42 am

From: Jasen.Betts@p42.f531.n640.z3.cereal.mv.com (Jasen Betts)
Subject: XCOPY or COPY

Hi aria1946.

11-Feb-02 06:40:50, aria1946 wrote to All


 a> From: aria1946@hotmail.com.spoo

 a> I want to copy an entire partition to another partition,
 a> overwriting anything that happens to be in the target partition

 a> I created the copy on H: from E: (source drive) with a simple copy
 a> function. On subsequent copies I want to basically overwrite H:
 a> with the current contents of E:, preserving empty directories on E:
 a> in the process

 a> Is there any particular advantage to using COPY or XCOPY?

it depends which has the features you want...
have you considered using replace?

how do you want to deal with files that are on H but not on E ?

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