[rootbeer506]

This is my first post so please excuse my ignorance. I know more about hardware than I do software and I haven't worked with batch files outside of making simple ones that shutdown a computer and display a message. (When I was young it was funny to watch people click on IE and have their computer shutdown)

I know how to create the batch file, I am just not sure about the text that should go into it. I want to copy My documents and setting from C: to D: then copy all of D: to E:

If I understand correctly you would start something like this:

ECHO My Documents Backup

xcopy C:\Users*.* D:\Backup /c /q /g /h /r /u

Is this close?

[oldskool]

Well I checked some of my school notes, then did some googling, and it looks like you are correct. If you try it, let us know ? I am interested if it works for you. Good luck

[rootbeer506]

I get this:

C:\Users\Keegan\Desktop>xcopy C:\Users*.* E:\Backup /e /v /c /q /g /h /r /u
Does E:\Backup specify a file name
or directory name on the target
(F = file, D = directory)?

One time I put in F, the other D. It just closes out the CMD and doesn't do anything.

Found out the problem. should be: xcopy C:\Users\*.* D:\Backup\*.* /s /e /c /g /h /r /y

[oldskool]

Ah yes, forgot that part before. I missed it. Yeah, you have to do it that way to include all files. Glad you got it to work for ya.