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Copying a folder from drive d: to drive h: using Dos

st999 · 2018-06-20 11:12:06

I have a folder on an external drive that I want to copy to another external drive and Windows 10 throws a wobbly and complains that some of the files need admin permission or trusted and doesn't copy them. I tried copying using dos but some files copy then it stops at the same files probably because the syntax of my…

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onomatopoeia99 Posts: 7,218 Forumite

21 June 2018 at 9:21AM

Meepster wrote: »

xcopy d:\cannotcopy h:\copied /O /X /E /H /K

If H: is a FAT drive as many removable drives still are, particularly USB sticks, that would strip the ACLs that NTFS provides and potentially grant the user account that the copy is being done under permissions to the files where they did not exist before, and would be a serious security loophole if it proceeded without error.

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