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On 31 Mar 1997 17:28:42 GMT, mhe1000@cus.cam.ac.uk (Dr M.H. Evans)
wrote:

>
>What would be the best way of copying all the 1676 files off my 
>present 386sx computer's hard drive (80 MB, 3 partitions C:, D: & E:) 
>to corresponding partitions on the (much bigger) hard drive of a new 
>computer? 
> 
>I have Windows 3.1 Terminal (yuk) and Odyssey 1.5 running under DOS 
>5.0 as my main comms software. I also have a null-modem serial cable. 
>Odyssey includes Kermit and ZModem protocols, which will accept 
>wildcards, but AFAIK will not upload through nested subdirectories, in 
>the way XCOPY /s will when copying from disk to disk. So transferring 
>with Odyssey would be tedious, though possible. 
> 
>Can one pipe XCOPY through the serial ports in some way? 
> 
>Or is there a public domain or shareware program that will copy all 
>the files in the drive across, including those in nested 
>subdirectories?  I don't feel inclined to spend much of my money on 
>some commercial software (maybe one of the Nortons packages could do 
>it?) for a job I may never have to do again. 

If your new PC has a second IDE channel (probably in use by a CDROM
drive) then why not plug the old drive into the second channel
(disconnecting the CDROM drive if present) and copy the files across
using XCOPY or the like?


-- 
Kevin Bennett
sorceror@stygia.demon.co.uk