How do I list HDD folders?

davb

As Bill Scarab said, you need to navigate to your external drive in Windows explorer and find the drive letter, e.g. if it is drive E
Then at the command prompt (yes the black window) type
E:
then do the dir

Lil306

As others have said. When you type cmd and press enter, it opens a command prompt in the default user directory (which in your case is c:\users\family)

First you need to tell it to change to another drive. So you type z: then press enter
The display should then say z:\>

If you wanted to change folders first you type in cd foldername then run the appropriate commands

If you are already in the root. To create an outputted file you would use the command line options. As a note > means create and >> means append if it already exists

So if your command looked like this
Z:\>dir >c:\help.txt

It would create a file called help.txt in the root of c showing all the contents of Z: (files and folders)

As others have said use the switchs above (i..e DIR /S /A /etc) to tell it what to output. If you're stuck you can type DIR /? in cmd prompt and it shows you most of the commands which are common

georgiac

Thanks all, still stuck but learning fast ( I hope!)

Think I know what problem may be now, on the root of the hdd I have a folder called PHOTOS and all the folders are inside there.

davb

georgiac wrote: »

Thanks all, still stuck but learning fast ( I hope!)

Think I know what problem may be now, on the root of the hdd I have a folder called PHOTOS and all the folders are inside there.

Ok, that's not a problem. So let's assume your ext drive is Z (it might not be).
Start a command prompt, and type:
Z:
cd \photos
dir /ad /b /s >folders.txt

Job done - you should then have a text file in the PHOTOS folder called folders.txt containing the list, which you can open with notepad or word.

georgiac

Success!!!!!!!!

Many, many thanks everyone.

Much appreciated.